Smoked Chicken Corn Chowder Food

SMOKY ROASTED CHICKEN AND CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• Cook chopped bacon in a large non-stick soup pot over medium-high heat until lightly browned but not crisp. Stir in onions, celery, red pepper, and garlic. Cook and stir until vegetables begin to soften, about 5 minutes.
• Add thyme and flour. Mix well. Stir in broth and evaporated milk. Bring mixture to a gentle boil and stir continuously until soup thickens slightly.
• Reduce heat to medium-low. Stir in remaining ingredients. Cover and let simmer for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Serve hot.

SMOKED CHICKEN CORN CHOWDER RECIPE

Steps:

• Cut kernels from cobs. Reserve corn and cobs.
• Cook bacon in a Dutch oven over medium-low 8 minutes or until crisp; remove bacon, and drain on paper towels, reserving drippings in Dutch oven. Crumble bacon.
• Increase heat to medium-high. Sauté onion and next 4 ingredients in hot drippings 5 minutes or until tender. Add potato, and sauté 1 minute. Add broth and reserved corn cobs, and cook 12 to 15 minutes or until potatoes are tender. Stir in chicken, next 3 ingredients, and corn kernels. Reduce heat to low and simmer, stirring often, 15 minutes or until slightly thickened.
• Remove from heat. Discard corn cobs. Stir in 1 cup cheese. Ladle into bowls, and sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup cheese and crumbled bacon.

CHICKEN AND CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• Cut the kernels off the corn and scrape the cobs with the back of a knife to remove the liquid. Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a dutch oven or other large pot over medium-high heat. Add the bacon and cook, stirring, until crisp, 3 to 4 minutes. Remove to a paper towel-lined plate with a slotted spoon; remove 2 tablespoons of the drippings and set aside.
• Reduce the heat under the pot to medium and add the remaining 1 tablespoon butter, the chopped onion, corn and liquid, and a pinch each of salt and pepper. Cook, stirring, until the onion is tender, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Add the potatoes and chopped garlic to the pot and season with the smoked paprika and thyme; cook, stirring, 1 minute. Add the chicken broth and 1 teaspoon salt; cover and bring to a boil. Uncover and simmer until the potatoes are tender, 6 to 8 minutes.
• Smash some of the potatoes with a fork to thicken the soup. Stir in the chicken and heavy cream and cook until the chicken is warmed through, about 3 minutes.
• Heat the reserved bacon drippings in a small skillet over medium-high heat. Add the sliced onion and cook until browned, 3 minutes, adding the sliced garlic during the last 30 seconds. Remove with a slotted spoon to the plate with the bacon. Divide the soup among bowls; top with the bacon, onion and garlic.

CHEDDAR CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a large stockpot over medium-high heat, cook the bacon and olive oil until the bacon is crisp, about 5 minutes. Remove the bacon with a slotted spoon and reserve. Reduce the heat to medium, add the onions and butter to the fat, and cook for 10 minutes, until the onions are translucent.
• Stir in the flour, salt, pepper, and turmeric and cook for 3 minutes. Add the chicken stock and potatoes, bring to a boil, and simmer uncovered for 15 minutes, until the potatoes are tender. If using fresh corn, cut the kernels off the cob and blanch them for 3 minutes in boiling salted water. Drain. (If using frozen corn you can skip this step.) Add the corn to the soup, then add the half-and-half and cheddar. Cook for 5 more minutes, until the cheese is melted. Season, to taste, with salt and pepper. Serve hot with a garnish of bacon.

SMOKY CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• Heat the EVOO over medium-high heat in a soup pot. Add the bacon and brown to crisp, then remove with a slotted spoon and reserve the bacon bits. To the bacon drippings, add the garlic, onions and chiles, and cook to soften, 8 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the corn and season with the thyme, paprika and salt and pepper, and stir. Add the cobs to the pot along with the bay leaves, potato and cover with the stock. Add a little water to the stock if it does not cover the corn. Cook the soup, partially covered, 20 to 30 minutes. Remove the cobs and bay leaves and puree with an immersion blender until the corn is creamed. Stir in the butter and lime juice and add hot sauce, to taste. Cool and store for a make-ahead meal. Reheat over a medium flame.
• Serve the corn chowder topped with bacon, scallions, herbs and cheese.

SMOKED CHICKEN CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a 6-quart heavy kettle cook the onions in oil over moderate heat stirring, until softened. Peel and cut potato into 1/4-inch dice. To kettle add potato, garlic, and jalapeño and cook stirring, 1 minute. Stir in flour, and cook over moderately low heat, stirring 2 minutes. Whisk in 2 cups broth and heavy cream and bring to a boil stirring. Add tomatoes, corn, Monterey Jack, parsley, chipotle, and chicken and simmer, stirring occasionally and adding enough of remaining cup broth to thin soup to desired consistency, 20 minutes, or until vegetables are tender. Season soup with salt and pepper.

SMOKED CHICKEN CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a 6-quart heavy kettle cook the onions in oil over moderate heat stirring, until softened. Peel and cut potato into 1/4-inch dice. To kettle add potato, garlic, and jalapeño and cook stirring, 1 minute.
• Stir in flour, and cook over moderately low heat, stirring 2 minutes. Whisk in 2 cups broth and heavy cream and bring to a boil stirring.
• Add tomatoes, corn, Monterey Jack, parsley, chipotle, and chicken and simmer, stirring occasionally and adding enough of remaining cup of broth to thin soup to desired consistency, 20 minutes, or until vegetables are tender. Season soup with salt and pepper.

WILD MUSHROOM, SMOKED CHICKEN AND CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• In large pot or dutch oven, cook bacon over medium-high heat 4 to 6 min until browned. Place on paper towel-lined plate.
• Drain all but 1 tablespoon of the drippings from the pot. Cook onion, red pepper, and green pepper, for 5 minutes or until crisp-tender. Return the bacon to the pot.
• Stir in 2 cups of the corn, chicken, potatoes, mushrooms, salt, cayenne pepper,and black pepper.
• Add 4 cups of water or enough to cover.
• Partially cover pot and bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat to low; cook for 30 minute.
• Meanwhile in blender or food processor, blend remaining 1 cup of corn and 1 cup of the half-and-half until almost smooth.
• Just before serving, stir the pureed corn mixture and remaining half-and-half into the soup bring just to a simmer.
• (DO NOT LET BOIL SOUP WILL CURDLE).

SMOKED CHICKEN, WILD MUSHROOM AND CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• Cook bacon in soup pot, remove and reserve. Cook onions and bell peppers in bacon fat until soft.
• Stir in 2 cups corn, chicken, potatoes, mushrooms, salt and pepper to taste. Add water and bring to boil. Simmer 30 minutes.
• Puree remaining 1 cup corn and 1 cup cream in blender until smooth. Stir into chowder and add remaining i cup cream.
• Heat through and serve with crumbled bacon on top.

CHICKEN, SAUSAGE AND CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• Place a 4-quart heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium-high heat and add the oil.
• When the oil is hot, add the kielbasa and cook, stirring, until lightly browned, about 4 minutes.
• Using a slotted spoon, transfer the kielbasa to a double layer of paper towels.
• Set aside.
• Add the onion to the pan and cook, stirring frequently, until golden, 6 to 7 minutes.
• Add 1/2 cup of the broth and simmer for 2 minutes, scraping up the browned bits.
• Add the remaining 2 1/2 cups broth, kielbasa, corn, potato, chicken, lentils and bay leaf.
• Reduce the heat to medium and simmer, covered, for 25 minutes, or until the potato and lentils are tender.
• Whisk the sour cream into the soup.
• Stir in the spinach, salt and pepper, reduce the heat to low and cook until the soup is just heated through and the spinach is wilted, 2 to 3 minutes. (Do not let it boil.)
• Remove the bay leaf and serve immediately, sprinkled with the parsley.
• Nutritional information per serving: 250 calories (14.7% from fat), 4.1 g fat (0.9 g saturated fat), 19.8 g protein, 35.6 g carbohydrate, 15 mg cholesterol, 709 mg sodium.