Mumbai x France

Bhutta velouté with chilli lime butter

Name: Bhutta velouté with chilli lime butter
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Fusion
Ingredients: 3 1/2 cups kernels (about 4 cobs) sweet corn kernels (corn kernels); 50 g divided butter; 1 medium sliced onion; 3 cloves sliced garlic; 1 1/2 tbsp maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour); 2 cups hot vegetable stock (vegetable broth); 3/4 cup milk; 1/2 tsp red chilli powder (indian red chili powder); 1 lemon zest and juice lemon; 1/2 tsp chaat masala; a pinch white pepper; a few leaves coriander leaves (cilantro); Salt, to taste

Everything you love about a monsoon bhutta cart, minus the corn stuck in your teeth.

40 minTime

7 gProtein each

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269kcalsame

7 gproteinsame

5 gfibresame

40minutessame

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Sweet corn kernels (corn kernels)3½ cups kernels (about 4 cobs)

Butter50 g, divided

Onion1 medium, sliced

Garlic3 cloves, sliced

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)1½ tbsp

Vegetable stock (vegetable broth)2 cups, hot

Milk¾ cup

Red chilli powder (indian red chili powder)½ tsp

Lemon1 lemon, zest and juice

Chaat masala½ tsp

White peppera pinch

Coriander leaves (cilantro)a few leaves

Saltto taste

Method

5 steps

1Set aside 80 g of the kernels. Char them in a dry pan on high heat for 4 minutes, shaking now and then.
2Melt 30 g butter in a pot on medium heat. Add the onion and garlic and soften for 6 minutes without browning.
3Stir in the maida for 1 minute, then whisk in the hot stock and milk. Add the remaining corn and simmer gently for 15 minutes.
4Blend until completely smooth, then pass through a sieve. Return to the pan and season with salt, white pepper and a squeeze of lemon.
5Mash the remaining 20 g soft butter with the chilli powder, lemon zest, chaat masala and a pinch of salt.

Serve it like this

Ladle into a wide white bowl, place a coin of chilli lime butter in the centre, scatter the charred kernels around it and finish with two coriander leaves.

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Bhutta velouté with chilli lime butter

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