Basic Chicken and Corn Chowder Recipe
This basic chicken corn chowder recipe will give you a couple of great tips on a basic chowder recipe so that you can create your own masterpiece.
Ingredients
- 1 medium onion finely chopped
- 3 ribs of celery finely chopped
- 3 carrots finely chopped
- 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 2 pounds of red potatoes cleaned and diced into 1-inch pieces
- 1 package pre-cooked bacon chopped. 3.25 oz
- 2 cups of corn fresh or frozen-thawed
- 2 quarts chicken broth 64 oz
- 1 cup whole milk half & half or cream
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
- 1/2 teaspoon Old Bay seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes optional
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
Instructions
- Saute bacon on high heat until the fat is rendered (a few minutes)
- Add onions, celery and carrots on med-high until soft about 5 minutes
- Add spices, Old Bay, thyme, red pepper, salt and black pepper.
- Continuing cooking and stirring for another 2 minutes.
- Add stock and chicken breast.
- Bring to a low boil and then reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes.
- Remove chicken to cool.
- Once chicken is cool shred or chop into bit size pieces.
- Add potatoes and corn to stock.
- Cook until potatoes are easily pierced with a fork.
- Add chicken back to the stock.
- Add milk and simmer for an additional 5-10 minutes
- Serve.
Nutrition
Serving: 1gCalories: 279kcalCarbohydrates: 29gProtein: 18gFat: 10gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 51mgSodium: 1199mgFiber: 3gSugar: 6g
Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. This information comes from online calculators. Although attempts have been made to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.
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