Corn In Summer

Summer calls for corn harvest. Corn, containing high level of vitamin A, C, calcium, iron and niacin, makes a nice dish in summer. You can steam or simply grill them when you do a barbecue. My favorite (& my daughter's too) is to make corn soup and hamburger with corn.

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Ingredients for soup:

1 yellow corn - steamed first or microwave for 3 minutes, then peel the corns using knife

100 gram of onion (finely chopped) - fried with salad oil/butter until yellowish

50 gram of steamed rice

500 cc milk

50 ml plain yogurt

1 tsp salt and pepper

1. Put the above ingredients in a mixer and blend well.

2. If you like the soup hot, put the mixture in a pot and reheat. If you like it cold, put them in the fridge for 30 minutes. Serve with chopped parsley.

Note that fresh corns has higher level of nutrients than canned corns. It may take a little bit more effort but you get to benefit more from fresh ingredients.

For hamburger, please make hamburger as you would as usual, only this time put some corns in the hamburger mixture.

Do you know that corn helps to improve blood circulation therefore reduce swelling? Swelling is more common in winter, but nowadays even in summer where we spend most days in a fully air conditioned room and drink a lot more of water, in combination with lack of exercise we (esp. women) may experience swellings on legs and face.