Sweet Corn (Bhutta)
スパイスとレモンで引き立つ黄金の粒！インドの雨季のストリートスナック
Description
Sweet corn familiar in Japan too. In India, rather than a curry ingredient, highly popular as a snack roasted pitch-black over open flame, rubbed with spices and lemon to bite on streets.
Classification: For Youth,Vegetable,Sweetness
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How to use
Ingredients
- Sweet corn
- Lemon
- Black salt
- Chili powder
- Chaat Masala
Instructions
- Boldly roast peeled corn (Bhutta) rolling over stall charcoal (or direct stove flame) until surface kernels char black and pop.
- Generously apply black salt, chili powder, Chaat Masala to the cross-section of a halved raw lemon.
- Using that lemon like a brush, rub the spice juice juicily all over the piping hot roasted corn surface to finish.
Learn more Substitutes, pairings, tips
Key spices
Black salt、Chili powder
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
None
Pairing
Masala Chai, Monsoon season walk
Trivia
[Trend] Corn is 'Bhutta' in Hindi. When the monsoon arrives, roasted corn stalls suddenly appear on streets across India. The combo of 'sweet corn with salt, chili, lemon' is so junkily addictive that once eaten, you can't return to Japanese soy-sauce-butter roasting.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] On a chilly rainy dusk holding an umbrella, bite the piping hot savory corn flavored with lemon acidity and chili heat, tearing it off with front teeth on the street!
Allergen
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