Corn Chowder

An easy, tasty soup to make that is substantial enough to make the meal. Serve with corn muffins to follow on the corn theme.
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Serves:
- Units:
5
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ingredients
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 2 stalks celery, chopped
- 1⁄2 green bell pepper, chopped
- 1⁄4 cup butter
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 8 cups chicken stock
- 1⁄2 teaspoon dried thyme, crumbled
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 carrots, chopped
- 1 large potato, peeled and cut into cubes the size of corn kernels
- 4 cups corn kernels, fresh or frozen
- 1 cup half-and-half
directions
- Cook onion, celery and bell pepper in butter and oil over moderately-low heat, stirring, until vegetables are softened.
- Add garlic and cook 1 minute.
- Add stock, thyme, bay leaf, salt, carrots and potato and simmer, covered, for 15 minutes or until vegetables are just tender (if using frozen corn, add at this point too).
- Add fresh corn and simmer 5 minutes.
- Discard bay leaf.
- Transfer 2 cups of the solids with a slotted spoon to a blender, add half and half and puree.
- Add puree back to the hot soup and heat.
- Season to taste.
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"An easy, tasty soup to make that is substantial enough to make the meal. Serve with corn muffins to follow on the corn theme."
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This is a good and easy soup. My blender was broken and so I used my immersion blender to roughly puree the soup - but not too much as I like a chunkier soup. We felt that this could have used a little more spice/herb flavor but certainly was tasty as is. Thanks Evelyn for a nice meal. Made for ZWT9 Holy Trinity Challenge.Reply
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Made this chowder for ZWT-9 & my DH declared it excellent. We both liked the fact that it's so veggie-rich, but only lightly-creamed. Other than using red bell pepper DH bought vs green, I made it exactly as written & served it as a 1st course w/cornbread as you suggested. 1 of it's best assets is that it's so versatile & can be expanded to satisfy the meat-lovers among us w/the addition of shredded chicken, baby shrimp, etc. Thx for sharing this recipe w/us.Reply
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