Busselton - Corn Poppers

 Sandy and I had these tasty little suckers a couple of nights ago and they were something that I have never 

had the pleasure to eat in the past!

They are not going to win any beauty competitions for 

“looking stunningly good on a plate” 

but what they lost in that category, they certainly 

make up for in the 

“You have flavour category”.

Now for the food autopsy to see why they tasted 

Sooooooo Daaaaaaam Goooooood

Spongey, cake-e textured little golf ball sized delights with roasted corn cornels, a very firm fried crust that needed a knife to cut them open sitting in a spicy, tart yet sweet sticky sauce dusted with popcorn crumbs and deep fryer curry leaves.

The description on the menu was loose, real loose and just described as 

“Corn Poppers (GF/V/Vegan) chipotle, popcorn”

They must have had a little bit of a bi card soda as they had a little bit of a spongy cake-e vibe going on.

So we are thinking they must have made a dryish batter with a super fine polenta added some corn cornels that were slightly charred as there was a subtle roast-e flavour. 

Rolled into little balls with a generous amount of corse polenta crumbs and fried to get that

 wonderful thick crust.

The sauce was a pomegranate malaise hence the tart hit! Loosed with water, maybe sweet chilly sauce and maybe a rice wine vinegar for acidity and heated to make a runny sauce.

Upon googling, I found out that “Chipotle” is a ripe jalapeño chilli pepper, dried and smoked which would also explain the smokey flavour that I was also tasting.

So that needs to be in the ingredients mix too.

They we so good that we went back last night with 

Rob & Roseanne.

 

To go with the Corn Poppers we had a cheeky little drop of an Italian grape variety called Barbera. 

It was from Donnybrook WA just a 45min drive north east inland from Busselton and the flavour took Sandy and I straight back to Italy.