Gluten-free, modifiable to vegetarian
Ingredients:
4 cups corn kernels
4 slices (ounces) bacon (or 2 Tbsp butter)
1 1/2 cups diced onion
1 cup diced carrot
1 cup diced celery
4 cups chicken (or veg) stock
1 1/2 cups milk
1 cup heavy cream
1 can diced potato
1 Tbsp salt (to taste)
2 tsp pepper (to taste)
Green onion, tortillas chips, sour cream, and/or bacon bits for garnish
Instructions:
Do all the prep of dicing veggies and cutting up bacon.
I used a Dutch oven but feel free to do it in a large pot or slow cooker. If you use a large pot keep a close eye on it so nothing burns to the edges. (Milk does that)
Cook bacon, when it’s brown, toss the onion in. Cook onion until it’s translucent. Add in carrot & celery and coat it w the bacon grease.
(If you are doing the veg option skip the bacon, melt the butter in the pan, add the onions, cook until translucent, and add in celery + carrots. )
Add in the stock/broth and deglaze the bottom of the pan. This is just making sure you stir in the brown stuff from the bacon that is sticking to the bottom. It gets the tasty bacon in it.
Add milk, heavy cream, salt, & pepper. Know that at this point everything is cooked so it’s fine to taste. But you really wanna heat the milk and cream for awhile. It changes the flavor. Plus, this one is a hot soup.
Add in corn. Frozen, canned, fresh off the cob. Use whatever you have. If you use canned i’d drain them and rinse. We get several dozen ears of corn once a yr and process it so we can have close to fresh corn all yr. it’s a tiring day and I don’t expect everyone to do it but I like having it.
About 15-30 min before you pull the soup off the stove add in potatoes to get hot. If you use fresh potatoes I’d add them right after the corn but I like canned potatoes cause lazy. Canned ones are almost done being cooked cause of the canning process.
Rough Nutrition:
394 calories, 42.g carbs, 18g fat, 12g protein, 5.3% daily iron.
Thank you to natashaskitchen.com thechunkychef.com foodandwine.com simplyrecipes.com whose recipes I read to put together what I liked and avoid what I didn’t.