How To Make Easy Corn Chowder
Whip up some flavorful comfort food in the form of our creamy corn chowder! It’s loaded with tasteful potatoes, bacon, and more for a tasteful soup.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 6bacon slices
- ½medium onion,diced
- ½cupcelery,sliced
- 1½cupspotato,peeled and diced
- 1bay leaf
- 1tspthyme
- black pepper,to taste
- 2cupschicken broth
- 3cupscorn,fresh or frozen
- 1cupmilk
- ½cupheavy cream
Instructions
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Cook the bacon until crisp. Set aside the drippings.
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Sauté the onion and celery in a large pot over medium heat for 5 minutes until tender.
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Add the potato, thyme, bay leaf, pepper and chicken broth to the pot.
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Bring to a boil, reduce the heat, then cover and let simmer for 8 minutes or until the potatoes are tender.
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Add the corn, then simmer for an additional 2 to 3 minutes for fresh corn or 5 to 6 minutes for frozen corn.
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Whisk together the milk and cream in a bowl.
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Add it into the soup mixture, then bring to a boil while stirring.
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Simmer for 2 minutes to thicken.
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Remove 2 to 3 cups of soup, then blend them in a blender until smooth.
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Stir the blended mixture back into the soup.
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Remove from heat, then stir in half of the bacon.
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Garnish with remaining bacon and green onions, if desired.
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Serve warm, and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 341.89kcal
- Fat: 22.21g
- Saturated Fat: 9.71g
- Trans Fat: 0.04g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 8.30g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 2.78g
- Carbohydrates: 27.59g
- Fiber: 2.84g
- Sugar: 9.50g
- Protein: 10.76g
- Cholesterol: 52.78mg
- Sodium: 351.84mg
- Calcium: 79.45mg
- Potassium: 612.06mg
- Iron: 1.16mg
- Vitamin A: 113.46µg
- Vitamin C: 13.80mg
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