Fresh Corn Soup

Caroline Cooks's Note:

Delightfully refreshing. For spicy taste--substitute green chiles for green pepper. Add a dollop of salsa or sour cream and chopped chives to enhance the flavor.

• Total Time: 28 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 13 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 4 cups

• ¾ cup onion , diced
• ¼ cup green pepper , diced
• 2 tablespoons butter , melted
• 2 cups corn , cut from cob, about 4 ears
• 2 cups chicken broth
• 1 ½ teaspoons sugar
• salt , to taste
• 1⁄3; teaspoon white pepper
• ¾ cup half-and-half cream
• Tabasco sauce , to taste
• 1 (4 ounce) jar pimiento , diced (optional)

Directions:

1. Sauté onion and peppers in butter in a large saucepan for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.
2. Add corn; cook 3 minutes, stirring constantly.
3. Stir in chicken broth, sugar, salt and white pepper.
4. Cover, reduce heat to low and simmer 10 minutes.
5. Stir in half and half; cook until thoroughly heated.
6. DO NOT BOIL.

Reviews

[Cucina Casalingo]

Wonderful way to use fresh summer corn. I made this as directed only substituting half-and-half. I also pureed about 1/3 of the soup in a blender and then added it back into the soup along with the remaining ingredients before the final heating. This gave the soup a creamy base along with the texture of the corn... Absolutely delicious!

[Chef 565650 Jim]

A great way to use up that extra corn. Reviewed the other recipes and added a few extras - 4 cloves of garlic, a rib of celery, a piece of broccoli, and I substitutes much of the half and half with regular skim milk, a little cream cheese, and some heavy cream. I also ran it through the bleneder and then the food mill to get rid of my old corn hunks and make it creamy smooth. I think it turned out great. Jim in So. California.

[echo echo]

Made up a batch of this for lunch and couldn't resist eating half all by myself. I used the green pepper, because I had a left-over part of a peppper to use up, but added a bit of hot pepper sauce to try to mimic the effect of using green chilies. A great, quick, easy lunch or supper, bursting with flavor.