Baby Sweetcorns!

LookingAhead

Hello :hello:

I have a nearly full 150g pack of baby sweetcorns that really should have been used yesterday (but they are still looking quite fresh in the fridge).

Does anyone know if I freeze these now if they will be ok? Or does anyone have any ideas on a quick vegetarian soup I could make or anything else that I could freeze? I don't like the thought of wasting them but we have our meals planned for the rest of the week...

Thank you!

lindadykes

I have frozen the odd pack of veg including baby sweetcorn when I realised we couldn't eat it before it went off, and it was fine.

LookingAhead

OK I'll give it a go....what's the worst that can happen? (Stumbles off with broken tooth embedded in frozen baby sweetcorn.....) (joke!)

]THANKS!!

Chell

I'd blanch them in boiling water before freezing them. We use loads of baby sweetcorns, I bung them in pasta sauces, veg chillis, lasagne, curries, veg casseroles etc.
We are all vegetarian. My 1yr old and 2yr old love them.

GiJo

I love baby sweetcorn - but I have a (silly?) question. I know it's found in the vegetable section, but is it a vegetable or a cereal (as corn is another name for maize)

Linda32

Can't answer your question GiJo, but they will be fine if blanched first, then when you cook them again, treat as frozen veg.

Wendrie

GiJo - it is a starch and I was always taught that it isn't counted as a vegetable usually.... Although the NHS nutrition site:
http://www.5aday.nhs.uk/whatcounts/portionsizesvegetables.aspx

says that a portion of baby sweet corn is 6 of the little cobs. <G>

finc

These are yummy par boiled for a couple of minutes then bunged on the George Foreman. I can even get my fussy 2 year old to eat them this way.

GiJo

Wendrie wrote:

GiJo - it is a starch and I was always taught that it isn't counted as a vegetable usually.... Although the NHS nutrition site:
http://www.5aday.nhs.uk/whatcounts/portionsizesvegetables.aspx

says that a portion of baby sweet corn is 6 of the little cobs. <G>

So, hopefully, counts towards my 5-a-day.

sarahspain

I love eating them raw!

I have them instead of biscuits and snacks sometimes

LookingAhead

Oh no - I bunged them in the freezer (in a lunchbox type thing) without blanching them first....are they ruined?? (By the way I dreamed I broke my two front teeth last night after posting my second post! Serves me right!!!)