Corn Cakes
Ingredients
- 6 slices bacon
- 16 ounce bag frozen corn, thawed
- 3 minced green onions
- 1/3 cup chopped roasted red pepper
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 3 eggs, separated
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
Instructions
Fry bacon and crumble into small pieces. Reserve bacon fat. In a large fry pan, saute corn in 1 Tablespoon of bacon fat for about 5 minutes, until corn begins to brown. Add next 8 ingredients and set mixture aside to cool. Add bacon, cream and egg yolks to mixture, then flour and baking powder. Beat egg whites until stiff. Add about 1/4 egg whites to the corn mixture to lighten it, then gently fold in the remaining egg whites. Drop mixture by 1/4 cup fulls into medium hot skillet and some reserved bacon fat. Add more bacon drippings as needed to fry all. Makes about 18 corn cakes.