Embered Sweet Corn with Lime-Basil Butter

Courtesy of Ashley Christensen of Death & Taxes located in Raleigh, NC. (Ashley likes to cut the corn off the cob and use a grill pan, but you can grill the corn first as well.)

Recipes and photos excerpted from Serial Griller: Grillmaster Secrets for Flame Cooked Perfection by Matt Moore 2020. Photography @Andrea Behrends and Helene Dujardin. Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

 

    Ingredients

    • 6ears fresh shucked corn, kernals cut from cobs
    • 8-12large fresh basil leaves, torn
    • fine sea salt
    • 4tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
    • 2teaspoons grated lime zest
    • 2tablespoons lime juice

    Preparation

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    1.  Fire up grill. Place grill basket with fine holes directly on coals to preheat for 3 minutes.

    2.  Add corn and half of torn basil to hot basket and season with salt. Roast directly on coals until the kernels start to char, 3-5 minutes. (For gas grill, cook in basket on grates over high heat for 8-10 minutes.)

    3.  Transfer corn to large metal mixing bowl. Toss with butter (it will melt from the residual heat of the corn), remaining torn basil, lime zest, and juice. Add more salt to taste.

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