Description
The ultimately simple street snack roasting peeled corn directly over stall charcoal until pitch-black, rubbing spices into the flesh using a halved lemon dipped in them.
Restaurants serving Bhutta (Spiced Roasted Corn, Street Style)
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Corn
- Lemon
- Black salt
- Chili powder
- Chaat Masala
Instructions
- [For
- Servings/Ingredients]
- raw corns,
- lemon,
- tsp black salt,
- tsp red chili powder, 1/
- tsp cumin powder,
- tsp Chaat Masala.
- When the monsoon arrives, place peeled raw corn (Bhutta) directly on a small charcoal furnace loaded on street corner stalls.
- The vendor fans 'pata-pata', scattering sparks while rapidly rolling corn by hand.
- Wildly bake intentionally 'to char' until surface kernels pop 'pachi-pachi' over direct flame and the whole chars pitch-black.
- Dip halved raw lemon cross-section generously in black salt, red chili powder, cumin, Chaat Masala. Using that lemon like a brush, powerfully rub the sour-spicy spice juice sizzlingly across the entire piping hot blackened corn surface to hand over. Scrape off hot corn entwined with smoky charcoal aroma and intense lemon acidity with front teeth—the ultimately simple feature.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Black salt、Chili powder、Chaat Masala
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Japanese roasted corn (rub spices/lemon without brushing soy sauce)
Pairing
Masala Chai、Walk after the rain
Trivia
[Hardcore] Called 'Bhutta'. Indian corn lacks Japanese 'sweet corn' strong sweetness, being hard and starchy. Thus, charring surfaces black and rubbing intense spice tastes makes it the ultimate snack oozing earthy umami the more you chew.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Scrape off the 'junk burnt taste' mixing charcoal smoke odor, lemon acidity, and black salt sulfur odor with front teeth crunchily while hot!
Allergen
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