There is this one chef out there that is very inspiring and must be one of the most amazing chefs ever but his recipes never work out. Some chefs are really great but they don’t put much care into recipe writing. Or maybe they just write up their recipes with typos?????? I came up with corn patties to go with all the sauces that went with the chef’s recipe that doesn’t work out. He came up with a fancy baked corn dish that was suppose to come out solid so you could grill it……It did have a really great flavor but I renamed it and used it as Sofrito Corn Frosting. After it cooked it had a consistency of frosting. The corn patties are tasty, easy and pretty quick to prepare. They come out slightly crispy on the exterior and the inside is fluffy and moist sort of like a pancake. Sauces aren’t really necessary. But if you happen to feel like making pachamanca and huancaina sauce it wouldn’t hurt. This recipe made me 24 small patties. You will want to eat 2-4 patties a serving. So that means you will get around 6-12 servings depending on how big you want your portion size to be. I’ll round it up to 8 servings.

Ingredients for around 8 servings.

1 1/2 cups fresh corn kernels (around two medium ears)

1 cup onions – diced about corn kernel sized

1/3 cup scallions – sliced thin

3/4 cup flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 Tablespoon corn meal

2 teaspoons sea salt (I used my home made smoked pecan sea salt)

1 Tablespoon granulated onion

1/2 teaspoon ground white pepper

1 Tablespoon sugar

2 eggs

1/4 cup water

non stick spray

Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

Spray baking sheets with non stick spray and put to the side.

In a large mixing bowl combine the corn, onions, scallions, flour, baking powder, corn meal, salt, granulated onion, white pepper and sugar and mix well. In a small bowl beat the eggs and add the water. This gets mixed into the large bowl contents. Don’t worry it will look very dry.

I used my smallest scooper so the patties would be close to the same sizes.

I scooped them out like this and flattened them a little bit.

In my oven on the middle rack and lower rack mine took 20 minutes to be done. (timing can differ)

They came out slightly browned and nice light brown bottoms.

Then I added all these sauces I made and sherry soaked figs.

Enjoy!!!!