Elotes
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Makes 4 corn cobs
- 4 corn cobs
- 50g/1.7ozs mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder (or 1 large clove garlic, minced)
- 3 teaspoons Sriracha or your favourite chilli sauce
- 160g/5.6ozs Greek feta, crumbled
- 2-3 tablespoons coriander, chopped
- Tajin Mexican seasoning
Buyer's Note: Tajin can be found at the supermarket.
Step 1 - Cook the corn however you like-I place two whole cobs (husks and all) in the microwave and cook for 6-7 minutes. Allow it to cool for 5-8 minutes or so, so that it is easy to handle (if I am in a hurry I wait a few minutes and then use washing up gloves). The silks are easy to pull out from the top and then pull down the husks. You can remove them at this point or leave them on to make the corn easy to pick up.
Step 2 - In a bowl mix the mayonnaise, garlic powder and Sriracha and place the crumbled feta on a shallow plate and have the chopped coriander ready. Brush on the corn on all sides with the mayonnaise and then roll in the feta, you may have to pat it onto the corn cob. Sprinkle with coriander and Tajin and eat.
Personal Note
Sometimes I just have elotes for dinner especially when I've been out for a big lunch and I'm full. I love having this easy dinner up my sleeve especially when we have a busy week. The other night we had a bit of a strange afternoon and night. Valentina messaged me that afternoon as she was looking for her former homestay student Yuki (who recently house sat for us). Valentina wasn't able to message her on Instagram and that was unusual because Yuki responds really quickly to Instagram DMs. When I took a look, I saw that she had deleted all of her Instagram grid images and her account looked disabled.
Over the next couple of hours Valentina tried calling Yuki to no avail. They live around the corner from each other so she went to knock on her door but there was no answer. I spoke to Valentina later that evening around 9pm and we both started to worry. I tried calling Yuki and I got a message that that number was no longer accepting calls. If her Instagram account wasn't disabled we wouldn't have necessarily worried but it seemed cause for concern. Even Mr NQN was worried about her.
I called Valentina and she explained that her mind immediately went to the 4 missing homestay students in South Australia. Their social media accounts had been disabled and their phones turned off. Valentina went around to her house again and knocked loudly and eventually, after a lot of pounding, a guy answered the door. "I'll get her," he said going to her room but returned alone. She wasn't there and the last time he saw her was the day before.
Now we were really starting to get worried. We kept running scenarios like a stolen phone but it all didn't make sense that she would disable her Instagram account or delete all of the images. All I thought about was her mum back in Japan and that Yuki was her only child. "I'm going to call the police, just in case. I'd rather do too much than too little," I said. It's actually a fallacy that you have to wait 24 hours to report someone missing and the first 24 - 48 hours are the most crucial. So I called them and gave them her details. They asked when we last had contact with her, whether she had any health issues and said that they would send a car around to her house. I updated Valentina and went to have a shower and brush my teeth.
And then the phone rang. It was a constable from the local police station. "I have Yuki with me," he said. Relief flooded my body and I realised then how tense I had been. "Can I talk to her?" I asked. It turned out Yuki was safe and sound. She had changed her phone number so that's why we couldn't get a hold of her. When I asked her why her Instagram had been disabled, she didn't realise that it was!
So tell me Dear Reader, do you like elotes? And how do you cook corn? And do you think you would have done something or waited it out in this situation?