Korean Corn Cheese
Sweetcorn bound with mayonnaise under a lid of grilled mozzarella. A side dish that arrives bubbling and never comes back to the kitchen.
Photograph credit: Corn cheese 2 by lazy fri13th · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
How to Make Korean Corn Cheese
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Heat the grill to its highest setting.
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Melt the butter in an ovenproof frying pan over a medium heat.
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Add the drained sweetcorn and cook 2 minutes, stirring, to drive off the water.
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Add the red pepper and cook 2 minutes.
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Take off the heat and stir in the mayonnaise, sugar, salt, pepper and two thirds of the spring onions.
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Level the surface and scatter the mozzarella evenly over the top.
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Grill 5 minutes, until the cheese is melted, blistered and brown in patches.
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Scatter the remaining spring onions over.
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Serve straight from the pan while the cheese still pulls.
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Notes for Getting It Right
- Dry the corn in the pan first or the mayonnaise splits.
- Low-moisture mozzarella, not the kind in water.
- Straight from the pan — it sets fast.
Changing the Recipe
- Out of spring onions? A small regular onion, finely sliced, or a few chives stirred in at the end both cover the job.
Serving Suggestions
- Korean fried chicken
- Cold beer
- Kimchi
Leftovers and Storage
Best immediately. Keeps 2 days refrigerated; re-grill to bring the cheese back.
Korean Corn Cheese Nutrition
Per serving, calculated from the ingredient list with USDA FoodData Central figures (SR Legacy). A calculation, not a laboratory analysis: brands, cuts and how you measure change the real numbers. How the figures are worked out.
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