Question
Clive Allison
What is the healthiest recipe from Costa Rica? It seems to be a combination of corn, butternut pumpkin and black beans. What is the best way of processing corn for cooking in that recipe?
Answer
The healthiest recipe from Costa Rica, I'd imagine there's a lot of healthy recipes from Costa Rica. It just depends on how it's prepared and how much you eat. But, um, these beans and rice sort of preparations, um, do characterize the food culture, uh, in that part of the world. And so some variety of a, of a beans and rice preparation could fit the bill here in terms of being one of the healthiest. Okay. Um, and the addition of, uh, corn and butternut, um, you know, squash or pumpkin to your black beans. Sounds fabulous, Clive. Um, the best way to process the corn, um, my familiarity, okay, with these types of recipes coming outta Central America, Costa Rica in this case these days, um, is that they're using the smaller tender corn kernels, uh, and they're not removing the, the skin. And this is gonna be the typical corn, um, that most people, um, in, in, let's say western Europe and, and North America anyway, um, are, are accustomed to, okay. Um, and, and probably much of the rest of the world too. Um, they're, they're not using these big corn, uh, kernels of corn, okay, that are associated with making maa. Okay? So just use, you know, whether it's frozen or fresh. Um, it really, um, isn't a big deal. Um, just use the corn that's commonly available, a sweet variety of corn, usually a younger corn, uh, is gonna give you some beautiful flavor, uh, versus a more mature and starchy variety of corn.
