ISO roasted corn grits

[highchef]

a supplier for my husbands office brought plate lunches from Zea's...in Lafayette. I thought it was a regular meat and 3's but turns out (after a google search) that it is a chain. I'm not much for driving a couple of hundred miles to check out a chain, but the lunch he brought home was pretty good..normal hot plate. However, he's enamoured, as is his staff, with what I see on their menu is called roasted corn grits. I would have thought is was more of a cornbread 'spoonbread' cassarole with roasted corn and some green onion, some chicken broth..pretty much what we make for the holidays, but with roasted corn instead of shrimp/crawfish/oysters. Has anyone tried this place and know what I'm talking about...? I think I may have obligated myself to trying to replicate it for their next office party. Thanks!

[TAPrice]

I believe this in the chain your talking about:

Zea Rostisserie and Grill

It started in New Orleans. The same guys behind Semolina came up with this concept. The place is pretty good, but I've never tried the roasted corn grits.

Maybe you could email them and ask for the recipe?

[onrushpam]

Is this maybe close?

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[highchef]

Is this maybe close?

Clicky

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Honey, I think it might be damn close enough, Thanks! Have you tried it?

edit: the recipe is pretty close to what I tasted, but there is a lack of green onion/chives...I think it's green onions. and I think they put it in a dish and bake a bit, there's a bit of crust on the dish that you don't get otherwise.

Edited April 13, 2007 by highchef (log)

[bavila]

It's definitely spoonbread-y. I was pretty impressed with Zea's in Lafayette when I was there about a year ago. The greens were good too, as I recall. Chain food I can live with.