Test cook Erin McMurrer makes Bridget the ultimate Mexican Corn Salad (Esquites).
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Erin is so hot.
I love watching cooking shows, but ATK and CC are my favorites, hands down. I learn so much and find watching it at night after dinner very relaxing.
This is NOT Esquite 🙁 looks yummy tho, but don't call it an "Esquite".
Better!!!!! Then my country Mexico, 😅thanks
Use a Bundt pan as the base to cut your corn.
Great recipe! We prefer to roast our corn, along with either serrano or jalapeno peppers on the grill.
I wonder if you could use frozen corn kernels to make this off-season when fresh corn isn’t around. I’d love to serve it at Christmas.
Esquites: corn, mayo, cotija cheese, butter, lemon, and chile de arbol in polvo. NOTHING ELSE.
Can this recipe be made with frozen or canned corn when fresh corn is unavailable?
Also, which would be better frozen or canned?
I'm waiting for people to get blown up by the Serranos. Not knowing they are spicier than jalapenos.
Still fantastic! Great dish.
Is it so difficult to have native people cooking their native food??
You ladies went wrong with garlic, no Mexican corn nor esquites have garlic. It’s just wrong plain and simple. I guess this happens when we Americanize everything🤮
Also in Mexico they don’t use our yellow corn. Usually the corn is the white one and for esquite use epasote . Although there are other colors of corn.
I saw a video here on YouTube of a street vendor in Mexico adding ramen to the esquite and it looked so good. Might try it sometime with your recipe for esquite.
It looks so delicious 😋😋.
Wonder what brand and where can I get that skillet with the lid.
The skillet they advertised in the information box doesn’t come with the lid.
This is definitely NOT authentic Mexican. The only 3 ingredients she got right was the corn and the serrano peppers and the lime juice. The rest is definite NO NO!!!
Erin looks a bit like Catherine the Dutchess of Cambridge!! Especially her hair do and side profile!!
"In between a jalapeno and a green bell pepper." Uhh… according to everything I've read, serranos are 5x HOTTER than a jalapeno.
Im the DISLIKE button
wtf is this lmao this aint no esquite hahaha
It’s missing the beef marrow
Hahahaha..Is not the way that Mexicans cook the esquites, that is her way to do it!
Check Jauja Cocina al Natural channel or Cocina delicioso con Reina, and is a great way and easy to make it! After that there are more videos haw the people cook or sell it in Mexico!!
Nice try ladies, but wrong way!!!😜
No, no, no. You people always give the wrong recipe and turn Mexican food into Tex Mex. Esquites go with mayo, lime juice (if you want), Cotija cheese and chili powder. Nothing else.
Corn can have epazote if you like, but nothing more.
Yum 😋
They used the term "ultimate" to describe their version, not "authentic". I bet there's more than one way to make authentic Esquites.
You guys are so far off. Esquites are not made with “Crema” or yellow sweet corn. The corn is boiled in a seasoned broth, not roasted in a frying pan
Different parts of Mexico have their own take on how esquites are prepared. Where I live you get it in a cup with the juice they were cooked in, a good dollop of mayo, lime juice, queso cotija and chili powder.
This is a great recipe and the substitutions are completely reasonable, but I would really have liked to have seen a Latina join Bridget for the demo. Surely there are well qualified Hispanic women on the ATK staff… right guys?
well, the reason this is not a totally authentic recipe is because getting the correct ingredients to make authentic esquites is not possible in most parts of the united states so the recipes developed by america's test kitchen are intended to use the ingredients that are available everywhere in the united states most of the year. i get it that there are a lot of people who don't understand this, but if you've watched america's test kitchen for any long period of time that has always been the point of their recipes, to get as close as possible with the ingredients that you can get. for example, where i live, fresh yellow sweet corn is available all year long but fresh white corn is never available in any supermarket, ever. there are a few latino markets around here, but even they can't get fresh white corn very often and cities 20 miles to 100 miles away have no latino markets at all. local supermarkets have a very small latino selection, no fresh crema and no latino cheese.
Insanely good!
Esquite and elotes are usually prepared with MAYONNAISE(not crema), butter, cotija cheese, chili powder and lime. The corn cobs are either grilled or, more commonly, boiled with epazote.
This isn’t authentic but looks pretty good and has similar flavors.
I've eaten elote for decades, but only learned about esquites a while back. It's great for those times a grill isn't available or eating off the cob is not practical. This version may not be "authentic," but it's still tasty.
I would love this I love fried corn! What I do with fried corn is a little different but I'm going to try this without the hot peppers. Eating corn off the cob has become a little difficult lately. 🙂
Does anybody know if she was cooking that on high heat? Any answer would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
I can't do heat as I have a geographic tongue and it really truly hurts horribly even medium. I can eat medium for only so long before it gets flaming my tongue and I can't taste it any longer. 🙁
I live in Maine and I can buy crema at the grocery store even at Walmart.
Some of it burned.
Wrong, wrong, wrong😩
Please do not call this esquite! Lmao
nice try…
This is what i do for a living!!! in San Antonio TX @El Chistoso Elotes
This is not Esquites!! Seriously no offense to the US but you peeps seem to ruin all traditional recipes. I guess you peeps are used to it.
No no cilantro no se le pone epazote
There’s no sour cream on elotes, it’s mayo. The “esquites” here aren’t esquites, they are this lady’s version of something she ate as esquites. Esquites are never eaten as a salad. Finally, original elotes and esquites aren’t made with sweet corn.
Thank you, white ladies, for teaching us all about a traditional Mexican dish.
My notes as a Mexican. You could make this with just Mayo. It's what I have known people to use. Crema became an overhyped ingredient, It's just slightly looser, salty sour cream. Mainly used for topping tacos, flautas, and enchiladas. But I'm sure it would taste great in this too. Try using a variety of Chile powers, try mix of primarily paprika with some Cayenne, and super market "dark chilli powder". Mainly non spicy stuff and get the spice from cayenne. I would not replace cotija with just feta. A mix of feta and parmesan sounds like it would be closer in taste. Cotija is generally not hard to find though. Also make it soupier, that more up to preference but that how ive always known it to be. If you boil the corn you can use the boiling liquid to make it soupy. Esquites have really changed since I knew them as a kid back in Mexico. Last time I went to my home town my cousin put cheese whizz is his so do what you want really.
Everything about this recipe is good except for the FETA cheese option for substitute. That’s a no no. 😖
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Esquites are authentic Mexican….not Tex-Mex