Fire Up the Grill: Vegan Corn on the Cob

10-minute miso corn-on-the-cob (Two Spoons)

Corn-on-the-cob is an easy filling meal made with one of nature’s sweetest vegetables. It’s cheap and easy to make, and there are plenty of vegan butters with no palm oil to slather on!

Read up on food safety for people and pets (many foods including corn-on-the-cob – choking hazard- are unsafe near animal friends). Before recycling tins, rinse/remove lids (or pop ring-pulls over holes) then step on can to ‘pinch’ inner rims together, to stop wildlife getting trapped.

Although it’s good to compost food scraps, unless you have a food waste bin (turned into biogas), just bin allium scraps (onion, leeks, garlic, shallot, chives), citrus/tomato/rhubarb scraps and tea/coffee grounds. To avoid too much acid/caffeine affecting compost creatures.

Reasons to choose vegan corn on the cob

Corn Ribs (Zacchary Bird

• Lower carbon footprint. Most corn-on-the-cob is slathered in dairy butter. But it’s a major source of greenhouse gases, due to methane emissions from factory-farmed cows.
• No cholesterol. Unlike dairy butter, vegan butter is cholesterol-free, and also lower in saturated fat. So you can slather on to your heart’s content!
• Inclusive for summer crowds. A lot of the time, corn-on-the-cob is served outside for barbecues. But with so many people now vegan, switching up means you don’t have to make different meals for different people. Then you can spend more time eating and entertaining your guests!

Vegan cheese corn fritter recipe

Another popular way to enjoy sweetcorn is as corn fritters. These vegan cheesy corn fritters (Cupful of Kale) are combined with chives, lemon and pepper, mixed with vegan mayo.

Fun facts about sweetcorn!

• No matter the size or type, each ear of sweetcorn has an even number of rows, from 8 to 20. Isn’t nature clever! The ‘silk’ at the top is actually the flower’s stigma, and there is one strand for each of the 800 kernels. Looks like sweetcorn is a very mathematical vegetable!
• Although a starchy vegetable, sweetcorn is also a grain and technically a fruit. A slightly confused mathematical vegetable!
• Sweetcorn plants can grow very tall. Although on average they grow up to 10 feet, some have grown to be over 35 feet. That’s around the height of three giraffes!