Summer Corn Fricassée
A Corn Fricassée is the perfect summer side dish when sweetcorn is in abundance and you're looking for something seasonal to serve with meat, fish, or just a poached egg!
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon butter or olive oil
- 75 grams (2½ oz) Spanish chorizo (dry-cured) around 6 inches long
- 1 shallot
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 tablespoon flour all-purpose/cornflour/gluten-free
- 100 ml (½ cup) stock meat, fish, or vegetable
- 250 grams (8 oz) sweet corn kernels fresh tinned, or frozen
- 2 Little Gem lettuce /Romaine hearts
- 3 tablespoon creme fraiche
- ½ lemon juice
- 5-10 basil leaves
- 10 cherry or baby plum tomatoes
- salt and cracked black pepper
Instructions
- Cut the chorizo into small cubes about the same size as corn kernels. Finely dice the shallot and garlic and shred the lettuce.
- Heat butter in a frying pan. Fry the chorizo for a couple of minutes, then add the shallot and garlic until translucent.
- Add the flour and stir it into the fat in the pan to make a paste (the roux).
- Slowly add the stock while stirring to thin out the paste into a sauce. Let it simmer and bubble for a minute to cook out the flour as it thickens.
- Stir through the sweetcorn and shredded lettuce and bring it up to temperature.
- Stir through the créme fraiche and bring it up to temperature. Turn off the heat and season with salt, pepper, and lemon juice.
- Serve garnished with summer tomatoes and fresh basil.
Notes
You can be relatively free with the quantities in this dish. A little more or less sweetcorn, or chorizo, or lettuce, or creme fraiche is not going to make a difference.
For the best taste, use fresh corn that is recently picked. But tinned or frozen is fine. If using frozen, it will take a little longer to come up to temperature. Or, defrost it in a bowl first.
You can add some chili heat if you like, or leave out the chorizo to make it vegetarian.
Serve spread out as a base underneath proteins for an elegant and refined-looking plate.
Nutrition
Calories: 165kcalCarbohydrates: 19gProtein: 7gFat: 8gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.04gCholesterol: 14mgSodium: 125mgPotassium: 307mgFiber: 3gSugar: 5gVitamin A: 5264IUVitamin C: 8mgCalcium: 26mgIron: 1mg
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