How to prepare Barbecued or Griddled Sweetcorn With Flavoured Butters ?

Preparation:       

Preparation time: 10 mins 

Cooking time: 30 mins 

Serving: 6

Ingredients:

• 6 sweet corn cobs
• sunflower or groundnut oil, or melted butter
• salt and pepper

  For the lime and coriander butter

• 175g butter
• 4 heaped tbsp finely chopped coriander
• 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
• zest and juice of 1 lime
• salt and pepper

  For the Parmesan butter

• 175g butter
• 3 thyme sprigs, leaves only
• 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
• 25g grated Parmesan
• freshly ground black pepper

  For the chilli butter

• 175g butter
• 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
• 1 medium red chilli seeded and chopped
• 1 tsp cayenne pepper
• Juice of ½ lime

Instructions:

1. You can cook corn on the barbecue in 2 ways. If you only have cobs without leaves, or you’re in a hurry, boil the corn in water until slightly soft but not completely tender, about 10 minutes. Brush with oil or butter, season with salt and pepper and set on the bars of the barbecue to finish cooking and get lovely and charred. Turn the cobs every so often. If you don’t want to barbecue the corn after boiling, brush with oil or butter and cook on a ridged griddle – preheated until it is almost smoking – turning the corn until charred on all sides. Either way, it will take about 5 minutes.
2. If you buy your corn with the husks on, pull the leaves back – but not right off – so you can see the silky threads. Tug these out and then pull the leaves back, twisting them at the end. Wrap the corn in foil or cook them as they are, burying them in the embers if you’re using coals or on the bars if not. They will take about 30–40 minutes to become tender. Don’t worry that the leaves turn very black.
3. To make the butter, mash all the ingredients for each one together and chill. When the butter has firmed up, roll into neat sausage shapes, wrap in greaseproof paper and chill again. Serve the corn hot with rounds of your chosen butter melting over the top of each one. Yum.