Grilled Corn with 'Nduja Butter & Manchego Recipe, by Genevieve Taylor
by Genevieve Taylor
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Easy
A recipe for late summer when corn cobs are cheap, abundant and at their best. They’re good as a side or snack. Cooking the corn in their husks allows them to steam to tenderness as well as lightly char. If you can only get unhusked corn, loosely wrap it in a double layer of foil.
If you are pescatarian or vegetarian, swap the ‘nduja for salted anchovies or capers respectively, and use a vegetarian cheese.
Extracted from How to BBQ, Genevieve Taylor (Quadrille, £25.00) Photography by Jason Ingram.
Ingredients for Grilled Corn with 'Nduja Butter & Manchego Serves: 2
- 50g butter, softened
- 30g ‘nduja
- a sprig of fresh rosemary, needles picked and chopped
- sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper
Ingredients to serve
- 15–20g (½–¾oz) manchego or Parmesan, freshly and finely grated
How to Make Grilled Corn with 'Nduja Butter & Manchego
- Technique: direct grilling; Fire setup: two-zone grilling
- Take each corn cob and peel back the husks. Pull out and discard the silky threads, then wrap the husks back around the corn as best you can. Set the corn on the grill bars over the fire and cook for 15 minutes or until the husks are charred all over, turning regularly to cook evenly. Transfer to a plate and allow to cool for a couple of minutes.
- Put the butter and ‘nduja into a shallow bowl. Add the rosemary and salt and pepper to taste and mash together with a fork.
- Peel back a few layers of husk from one side of each corn cob and spread the butter onto the exposed kernels. Fold the husk back over and return to the grill, butter-side up, for a few minutes to allow the butter to melt.
- Transfer to a plate and peel the top husks back one last time. Scatter over the grated cheese and serve while really hot.
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About the author
Genevieve Taylor, a BBQ and live fire expert, has penned thirteen cookbooks, including bestsellers like 'Charred,' a vegetarian BBQ guide, 'The Ultimate Wood Fired Oven Cookbook' and 'Foolproof BBQ.' An omnivore, she challenges the typical meat-centric BBQ narrative. Her latest hit, 'Seared,' focuses on quality meat and fire. Her upcoming release, 'Scorched' (Spring 2024), will complete a trilogy dedicated to cooking fish and seafood over fire.

