How to make Southern fried corn!

It's summertime so let's take those regular corn on the cobs and let's make some fried corn. I have these gorgeous ears of corn that I have shucked so I took the the hull off and then first we're going to go through and take the corn off of the cob. So how I do mine is I just take my knife and I just go straight down. Right now see corn is going everywhere so make sure you have a bowl very close to you. You're going to take your knife and you're just going to go down and shave the corn. Take your knife and see corn pops everywhere so make sure you have a bowl ready to put all the corn kernels in. Now I'm just going to keep doing this until I get all of the corn off of the cob. You see the little bit down here at the bottom just flip it over and get it off. And when you're done your cob should look like this. So I'm just going to continue to remove the rest of the kernels off these cobs before we start frying this up. So when I tell y'all this really is a very simple and easy recipe. It really is and it just gives you you know an alternative from having corn on the cob you know on the grill or boiled corn on the cob. It's just such a delicious and simple recipe. So I have my cast iron skillet right here. Now you can cook this in any type of skillet. I just feel like the cast iron you know adds a little je ne sais quoi to it right. So we are going to add three tablespoons of butter to this skillet. And you guys see me cooking with extra virgin olive oil all the time but we're not using extra virgin olive oil in this recipe because naturally what do you put on corn on the cob? You put butter right. So we want to keep that integrity of that flavor. So we want this to be buttery and just so delicious. All right so I got the three tablespoons of butter and to this three tablespoons of butter I am going to add my very finely diced red onion and about two cloves of garlic. Now I like red onion in this recipe strictly because of the color. Now this corn is already sweet so if you use any if you use like a sweet onion that's just going to add to the sweetness. But I just like to you know look at the corn and see the different colors. So that's why I have a red onion but feel free to use whatever onion you like. And we're just going to saute this just really quickly before we add our corn which is the start. And that's only to give this butter you know I want this butter to pick up on that garlic and onion flavor. So once I put the corn in here it'll get all through the the corn kernels. Now I am using a white sweet corn and like I'm not one of those people when you go to the grocery store you pull the corn back to see it. I always see people doing that. I don't have time for that. So I just pick up my corn and I get home it just be a surprise. You know what I mean once I peel it. So now this everything is all nicely mixed in. Then I'm going to add my beautiful white sweet starchy corn. All right it already smells good. It is something about butter, onions, and garlic. It is the absolute best flavor. So what you're going to do is you're going to make sure that everything is all incorporated. And I'm going to turn my heat down to like oh it's like it's on like a medium high. Okay so if you got the kind of stove that got the numbers I would say you're going to have your your heat on like a six or a seven. Okay now to this mixture I'm going to add my sea salt and pepper. So I keep this this recipe is really nice and simple. Now if you want to add a little cayenne pepper to spice it up you sure can. But this one for me because I love the sweetness of corn I don't want anything to overpower that sweetness. I just use salt and pepper and of course we have the garlic and the onions. Now because we cut the corn off the cob all of that good starch you're going to see it just come out in this skillet. Oh it's going to be so delicious. So I'm just going to continue to watch this and this is going to cook you guys for about 20 to 25 minutes because you want to make sure that you know your kernels are all the way done that you don't want them to be soft but you do want them to be done. This is going to take about 20 to 25 minutes. So I'm going to come back in about 20 to 25 minutes and show you all the finished product and we're going to put just a little um a little topping on it and we're going to garnish it and it's going to be beautiful and delicious. I want to show you guys what it's looking like. Now this is about after about 15 minutes of cooking. Now as you see you're starting to see it brown you're starting to see it basically it's caramelizing because the starch from the corn is coming out in the skillet. Don't that look delicious? It's not done yet though we're going to give this another another five five to ten minutes and we're going to be right. But this is what you should start seeing the caramelization the caramelization caramelization is a good word we're almost done we're almost done let's check on this corn stir it around yep that's it that's it this is what it should be looking like oh yes it smells so good but as you see you see the little caramelized pieces of the corn you see the onions are nice and tender this corn is done so what I do is I turn the heat off right we're going to smooth this out a little bit because you know presentation is everything presentation is everything now what you got to now what I'm going to do is I am going to hit this with a little parmesan cheese this is grated parmesan cheese yes yes ma'am yes sir go ahead hit that with that now you can hit it with well I wouldn't say any cheese you want because all cheese won't go good with this any nice sharp cheese like a parmesan will go great okay hit that with our good cheese and then you know you got to make it come back and make it look a little fancy go ahead hit it with a little parsley now for those of you who like cilantro I absolutely hate cilantro you can go ahead and top yours with cilantro it's an updated version and there you go there's that beautiful southern fried corn