Chicken Corn Chowder

When it is as cold as it has been lately my mind turns to soups and stews. This recipe, originally from Cooking Light seemed like the perfect soup with which to battle that cold air. The soup is thickened with a small amount of flour but more with low-fat milk into which you puree kernels of corn. It makes for a rich and satisfying  soup.

We followed the recipe as printed, but added 1 tablespoon of fresh chopped savory for additional flavour.

Chicken Corn Chowder

1 tablespoon butter
6 green onions
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 cups chopped cooked chicken breast
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 (10-ounce) packages frozen corn kernels, thawed and divided
1 (14-ounce) can fat-free, less-sodium chicken broth
2 cups fat-free milk
1/2 cup (2 ounces) pre-shredded cheddar cheese

Melt butter in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Remove green tops from green onions. Chop green onion tops; set aside. Thinly slice white portion of each onion. Add sliced onions to pan; sauté 2 minutes. Add flour; cook 1 minute, stirring constantly with a whisk. Stir in chicken, salt, pepper, 1 package of corn, and broth; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer 5 minutes.

While mixture simmers, combine the remaining corn and milk in a blender; process until smooth. Add milk mixture to pan; simmer 2 minutes or until thoroughly heated. Ladle 2 cups chowder into each of 4 soup bowls; sprinkle evenly with green onion tops. Top each serving with 2 tablespoons cheese.

Yield: 4 servings

CALORIES 394 (26% from fat); FAT 11.5g (sat 5.8g,mono 3.4g,poly 1.4g); PROTEIN 35.5g; CHOLESTEROL 84mg; CALCIUM 293mg; SODIUM 534mg; FIBER 4.5g; IRON 2.2mg; CARBOHYDRATE 40.7g

Cooking Light, JULY 2006

Comments

[Kim]

Mmmm...looks good - just finished the shopping list though so it will have to wait until next week. Hey - the paragraphs are reversed.

[Jerry]

Thanks Kim - the shopping is my job for Saturday morning while Paul sleeps and I sip a pot of coffee(our ads come out on Friday). Thanks for the alert re paragraphs . . . I fixed 'em.

[barb cabot]

Hi Jerry, I just got home from italian class and boy does that corn chowder fit the bill. Perfect comfort food, I wish I had some right now!

[Jerry]

Barb - perhaps you can give Paul and I some Italian lessons when we're in Savannah. I wouldn't even call our Italian passable tourist Italian! ARGH