Creamy Corn Chowder

About this Recipe...

Corn Chowder is a thick creamy soup or chowder very similar to New England Clam Chowder. Here I used corn and other vegetables instead of clam. But to give extra flavor to this chowder I used Chicken stock, you can make it completely vegan and use vegetable stock. It's an ultimate comfort food and you can enjoy this as an appetizer or dinner.

Ingredients

• 1 Cup Frozen corn
• 2 Tbsp Salted butter
• 2-3 Crushed garlic cloves
• Finely chopped mixed vegetables like onion, bellpepper, carrot, potato, leek and celery
• 1 Tbsp All purpose flour
• 1 Cup Chicken stock or vegetable stock
• 1/2 Cup Half and half
• Salt as per taste
• 1 tsp Black pepper powder
• 1/4 tsp Dry thyme

Directions

1. Take half cup of frozen corn and make purée out of that and keep aside.
2. Now in a pan heat up butter and sauté crushed garlic till you get nice aroma from it.
3. Now add all the chopped veggies together and sauté it for sometime till everything becomes translucent.
4. Now add the flour and sauté it with the veggies so the raw smell of the flour goes away.
5. Now slowly add chicken or vegetable stock to it so the flour doesn't form any lumps, now add all the stock and let it come to a boil.
6. When it starts boiling then add the corn purée and the remaining half cup whole corn kernels, stir it and let it boil.
7. Check it in between and stir it so it doesn't set in bottom of the pan. Add salt and pepper powder and mixed it very well.
8. Finally add the half and half and thyme, let it come to a generous boil and your hot creamy corn chowder is ready to enjoy.