Tex Mex

Mexican-Style Street Corn Cups

Name: Mexican-Style Street Corn Cups
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Tex Mex
Ingredients: 4 cups corn kernels; 1/3 cup mayonnaise; 1 lime; 1 tsp chili powder; 1/2 cup crumbled cotija; 2 tbsp chopped cilantro; 1/4 tsp salt

Marisol @marisol_elpaso

Mexican-Style Street Corn Cups is Tex Mex home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the protein alongside. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

20 min Easy Eggetarian Pescatarian Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 cups corn kernels
1/3 cup mayonnaise
1 lime
1 tsp chili powder
1/2 cup crumbled cotija
2 tbsp chopped cilantro
1/4 tsp salt

How to cook it

Warm the corn in a skillet over medium-high heat until heated through and lightly charred in spots, about 6 minutes, or use grilled corn cut from the cob.
Toss the warm corn with the mayonnaise, lime juice, and chili powder.
Spoon into cups or a bowl and top with the crumbled cotija and cilantro.
Season with salt to taste and serve warm. Tagged as a protein_side rather than a vegetable dish, because tex_mex opens no vegetable slot.

Watch how to cook Mexican-Style Street Corn Cups

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A Tex Mex dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Mexican-Style Street Corn Cups, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Bean and Cheese Burrito
  
  20 min
What it is eaten with
- Refried Beans
  
  25 min
The sharp little thing
- Guacamole Casero
  
  15 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Mexican-Style Street Corn Cups carries dairy and eggs. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Mexican-Style Street Corn Cups
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Black Beans with Cumin and Lime
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Black Beans with Cumin and Lime
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 330 kcal
Protein: 8 g
Carbs: 31 g
Fat: 19 g
Fiber: 4 g
Sugar: 8 g
Sodium: 480 mg
Saturated fat: 6 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Mexican-Style Street Corn Cups takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.