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How long to cook corn on the cob

Steaming corn on the cob in a pressure cooker is better and a little sweeter.

First add water 1.5 inches deep to cover the corn cobs, put the grate in the pressure cooker, put the peeled corn cobs directly on the grate or with a plate on the grate can be, and then ignite the fire to steam, the high pressure valve rotates after a small fire for 3-4 minutes off the fire can be.

Ordinary pot, first put cold water to put the corn in the water to open for 20-25 minutes on a small fire, look at what to cook the corn, general sweet corn, yellow kind, cook a moment on the open, the water opens and then ten minutes to eat, if it is to cook the glutinous corn on how long it is a little bit.

The trick to cook corn

1, the corn outermost thick skin peeled off, leaving the innermost 2 layers of thin skin, retaining the corn whiskers, washed; put the corn into the pot, add water, did not exceed the surface of the corn, high heat boil, cover and cook for 8 minutes.

2, sweet corn and sticky corn ripening time is different, if the same pot to cook, cook for 8 minutes, the first sweet corn clip out, and then continue to cook for 2 minutes sticky corn; boiled corn is best to immediately clip out of the draining water, do not long soak in the water to cook the corn, otherwise the corn's flavor is not strong.

Corn for the masses: corn can be eaten by people in general, especially suitable for spleen and stomach qi deficiency, qi and blood deficiency, malnutrition, arteriosclerosis, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease, obesity, fatty liver, cancer patients, memory loss, habitual constipation, chronic nephritis edema, and middle-aged people to eat.