Harvest Corn Chowder Food

HARVEST CREAMY CORN "CHOUP" WITH PARSLEY

Steps:

• Heat a medium soup pot over medium-high heat with extra-virgin olive oil. Add bacon to hot oil and cook until crisp at edges. Add onions and corn, zucchini and potatoes and bell pepper as you get them chopped. Also add to the soup pot the bay leaf, thyme sprigs, paprika, and salt and pepper, to taste. Cook for about 7 to 8 minutes to begin to soften the vegetables. Sprinkle flour into the pot, stir and cook 1 minute. Stir in the stock and let it come up to a bubble and thicken up a bit. Then stir in cream, parsley and hot sauce, to taste, and simmer 5 minutes. Season the soup with salt and pepper and serve with crackers or popcorn to float on top.

CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• Heat the butter and 1 tablespoon olive oil in a soup pot over medium heat. Add the onion, garlic, and thyme and cook until the vegetables are good and soft, 8 to 10 minutes. Dust the vegetables with flour and stir to coat everything well. Pour in the vegetable stock and bring to a boil. Add the cream and the potatoes, bring to a boil and boil hard for about 7 minutes, until the potatoes break down (this will help to thicken the soup and give it a good texture).
• Cut the corn kernels off the cob and add to the soup. Season with salt and pepper and simmer until the corn is soft, about 10 to 12 minutes. Stir in the parsley and give it another little drink of olive oil. Ladle the soup into bowls and serve.

HARVEST CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, saute onion in butter until tender. Add the cream-style corn, kernel corn, potatoes, soup and mushrooms. Stir in milk. Add green and red peppers. Season with pepper. , Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 30 minutes or until vegetables are tender. Garnish with bacon.

HARVEST CHOWDER

Steps:

• Fry bacon in heavy stock-pot; remove, drain, crumble, then set bacon aside.
• Saute onion, celery, and carrots in stockpot in a small amount of reserved bacon fat; add mushrooms and zucchini and continue sauteeing for 2 minutes.
• Add water; cover stock pot and simmer until vegetables are tender.
• Add corn, peas, mashed potatoes, and milk and heat through.
• Add cheese and stir until melted; season, and serve hot.
• *Note:For this recipe I like to use mashed potato flakes prepared according to package directions using 2 2/3 c water, 1/4 c margarine, 1 tsp salt, 1 c milk, and 2 2/3 c potato flakes to make 3 1/3 cups/8 servings.

HARVEST CHOWDER

Steps:

• Brown ground beef with onions. Add salt and pepper to taste. drain.
• Mix in remaining ingredients. Do NOT drain the canned good.
• Heat until cheese is melted and soup is thoroughly heated.

HARVEST CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• Cook bacon in 3-quart saucepan until crisp. Drain fat, reserving 3 tablespoons in saucepan. Cook onion and celery in bacon fat about 2 minutes; remove from heat.
• Stir in flour. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is bubbly; remove from heat.
• Stir in milk. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil and stir 1 minute.
• Stir in pepper, corn and potatoes. Heat until hot. Stir in bacon. Sprinkle each serving with parsley.