Creamy Spicy Roasted Corn Soup Food

CREAMY CORN SOUP

Steps:

• In a large pot over medium heat, combine the onion, garlic, parsley and butter or margarine. Saute for about 5 minutes, or until onions are tender.
• Add the flour, stirring well, to make a pasty mixture. Whisk in the milk and the broth. Add the corn and the cream cheese and allow to heat through. Add the garlic salt, black pepper and cayenne pepper to taste. Stir together and serve.

SPICY CORN SOUP

Steps:

• Prepare the corn by cutting the kernels from the cob. You should have approximately 3 cups of corn kernels from 4 cobs of corn. Save the corn cobs and set aside. The cobs will add additional corn flavor to the soup. In a medium-sized saucepan over medium-high heat, add the olive oil, then the onions. Saute for 3 to 4 minutes until they are translucent, stirring occasionally. Add the garlic and chipotle chili powder and saute for 1 more minute. Add the corn kernels and saute for another 3 minutes, stirring constantly. Add the salt, black pepper, and chicken stock and bring to a boil. (If you have cut your corn fresh from the cob, place the reserved cobs into the saucepan at this time). Once the mixture has boiled, reduce the heat and simmer for 30 minutes. Stir occasionally to prevent the corn kernels from burning or sticking to the bottom of the pan. While the corn soup is simmering, roast the red bell pepper. Char the skin of the pepper until it is black over an open flame or on a grill. When the skin is blistered and blackened, remove the pepper from the flame and place in a paper or plastic bag and seal. Let steam for 15 minutes. When the pepper is cool enough to handle, peel, seed, and dice it.
• Place the diced bell pepper into a blender with 1/2 cup of the heavy cream and blend thoroughly for 1 minute. Pour through a fine sieve and discard the contents of the sieve. Pour the red bell pepper sauce into a plastic squirt bottle and set aside. Remove the corn soup mixture from the heat, discard the corn cobs and set aside. Place the corn soup mixture in a blender and puree for 3 minutes. Pour the mixture through a sieve and discard the contents of the sieve. Return the mixture to a saucepan, add the remaining 1 cup of heavy cream, and heat, over medium heat for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally to prevent burning. Pour into bowls, garnish with some of the red pepper sauce and serve immediately.

CREAMY SPICY CORN CHOWDER WITH CHICKEN

Steps:

• In a large saucepot over medium heat cook bacon until crispy and all fat has rendered out. Remove with a slotted spoon to a paper towel lined plate. Drain off all but 1 tablespoon fat, add onion, jalapeno, potato, red pepper, corn, salt and pepper and saute for about 5 minutes. Add thyme.
• In a blender, puree half the mixture and add back to the pan. Add milk, chicken broth, and chicken and let simmer for about 5 minutes.
• Transfer to serving bowls. Garnish each bowl with cooked bacon, fresh cilantro and a lime wedge.

SPICY CHIPOTLE CREAMY CORN SOUP

Steps:

• In a large heavy pot over medium heat melt butter and sauté the onions, red bell pepper and garlic (about 5 minutes).
• Add in tomatoes with juice; cook for 2 minutes.
• Combine 2 cups chicken broth with chipotle chilies in a blender and puree.
• Add in the puree and cream-style corn into the pot with sautéed veggies; mix to combine and bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer for about 25 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Add in frozen corn, whipping cream and oregano; simmer 5 minutes, stirring.
• Ladle into serving bowls.

SPICY CORN AND COCONUT SOUP

Steps:

• Cut the corn kernels off the cobs and transfer to a bowl. Using the back of a butter knife, scrape the cobs so that all of the milky juices collect in the bowl and the cobs look completely dry, like wrung-out sponges. Set aside. (If using frozen kernels, skip this step.)
• In a large stockpot over medium heat, heat olive oil. Add shallots, garlic, ginger and chile, and sauté, stirring occasionally, until soft and fragrant, 3 to 5 minutes. Add corn kernels and juices to the pot, and sauté until the corn is softer and brighter, about 3 minutes more.
• Add potato pieces, and stir to coat, 1 to 2 minutes.
• Now, pour in the vegetable broth and coconut milk. Bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer, cover, and cook for 8 to 10 minutes, until the potatoes are tender all the way through.
• Use an immersion blender to roughly purée the soup, so that it's creamy with some kernels of corn, chunks of potato, and chile flecks remaining. (Alternatively, ladle about half of the soup into a blender, blend until smooth, and return to the pot.) Season with lime juice and salt, and mix to combine. Ladle soup into bowls and garnish with toppings of your choice.

SPICY CREAM OF SWEET CORN SOUP

Steps:

• Finely chop all vegetables.
• In a saucepan, heat the butter and cook the onions until soft. Add the garlic, tomato, half the tin of corn and half the amount of jalapeno. Cook for about 2 minutes, until tomato is almost dissolved. Remove saucepan from heat.
• Put veggies in blender and puree until smooth (add a little milk if you have difficulty blending them). Return blended veggies to saucepan and add milk. Mix well and add remaining corn and jalapeno, do not let it boil.
• Serve immediately and top bowls with cheddar cheese Serve with hot flour tortillas or corn bread.

SPICY CORN SOUP

Steps:

• Prepare the corn by cutting the kernels from the cob.
• You should have approximately 3 cups of corn kernels from 4 cobs of corn.
• Save the corn cobs and set aside.
• The cobs will add additional corn flavor to the soup.
• In a medium-sized saucepan over medium-high heat, add the olive oil, then the onions.
• Saute for 3 to 4 minutes until they are translucent, stirring occasionally.
• Add the garlic and chipotle chili powder and saute for 1 more minute.
• Add the corn kernels and saute for another 3 minutes, stirring constantly.
• Add the salt, black pepper, and chicken stock and bring to a boil.
• (If you have cut your corn fresh from the cob, place the reserved cobs into the saucepan at this time).
• Once the mixture has boiled, reduce the heat and simmer for 30 minutes.
• Stir occasionally to prevent the corn kernels from burning or sticking to the bottom of the pan.
• While the corn soup is simmering, roast the red bell pepper.
• Char the skin of the pepper until it is black over an open flame or on a grill.
• When the skin is blistered and blackened, remove the pepper from the flame and place in a paper or plastic bag and seal.
• Let steam for 15 minutes.
• When the pepper is cool enough to handle, peel, seed, and dice it.
• Place the diced bell pepper into a blender with 1/2 cup of the heavy cream and blend thoroughly for 1 minute.
• Pour through a fine sieve and discard the contents of the sieve.
• Pour the red bell pepper sauce into a plastic squirt bottle and set aside.
• Remove the corn soup mixture from the heat, discard the corn cobs and set aside.
• Place the corn soup mixture in a blender and puree for 3 minutes.
• Pour the mixture through a sieve and discard the contents of the sieve.
• Return the mixture to a saucepan, add the remaining 1 cup of heavy cream, and heat, over medium heat for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally to prevent burning.
• Pour into bowls, garnish with some of the red pepper sauce and serve immediately.
• *Note:Jalapenos that have been dried and then smoked are referred to as chipotles.
• Dried chipotle chiles can be ground into a powder and used for seasonings.
• This medium-size, thick fleshed chile is smoky and sweet and has a subtle, deep, rounded heat.
• In Santa Fe, local farmers sell fresh ground chipotle chili powder, but it is also available by mail order from the Source Guide in my cookbook; Foods of the Southwest Indian Nations.

SPICY CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a small saucepan over medium heat, saute the bacon until crisp and browned and the fat is rendered. With a slotted spoon, transfer bacon to paper towel and reserve. There should be about 4 tablespoons of bacon grease in pan.
• Add the onions and red pepper to pan. Saute until tender and translucent, about 4 minutes. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
• Add the jalapeno and garlic and saute until fragrant, about 1 minute.
• Stir in the flour until thoroughly combined. Cook the flour until it reaches a slight blonde color, about 1 minute.
• Stir in the chicken stock and the potatoes and simmer for 10 minutes; potatoes will become soft.
• Add the cream, corn, cayenne and bay leaf. Simmer for 15 more minutes. Pour into a serving bowl and garnish with the reserved bacon.