Huitlacoche is without a doubt one of my favorite Mexican dishes. Very hard to find outside of Mexico, Huitlacoche is a fungus that grows on the corn plant; corn smut to be exact. I just learned that Huitlacoche in Nahuatl means "Raven's shit". Whatever you want to call it, I love it and I'm thrilled to see it in our garden! Huitlacoche normally grows from the corn kernals; this is how I am accustomed to it in Mexico. Our's is growing out of the stalk. I read that you can cut the stalk so that the fungus will spread to the corn ears. Anybody out there with corn smut knowledge?! My huitlacoche research has me literally drooling on the keyboard!
I don't know... I have now eaten a few flowers out of my garden, but corn smut..... It doesn't look all that good, at least not at first sight. I will have to look this right up and see what they say about it online. If you tell me its good, I will believe y..., but not sure I am ready to try it. :);) :)
@JMTKMS: It is really one of my favorite dishes from Oaxaca. I ate and cooked it all the time. If I can get ours to spread up into the ears I will make some huitlacoche quesadillas here so that the rest of the crew can vouch for me! It is also becoming pretty sought after stateside too! Maybe this will make your mouth water?!
@YourGardenShow: I don't know how this happened, I only have like 5 corn plants and the horse ate the tops off 2 of them, but I have Corn Smut growing on one of them. Can you believe it? Funny how I have never heard of it till you showed it to me, and now I have it. I am sorry to say that I am not going to eat it. Maybe if someone else prepared it, I might try it, but I cannot do it myself. We have a large Mexican community here, so I will have to see if someone wants it. I am going to be posting a picture after I am done writing here. Just wish I could send it to you. :) :)
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