Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, light corn chowder. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
You'll want to purée a few cups to give the chowder body, while leaving plenty of corn kernels and chopped potatoes whole for variety on the spoon. A few splashes of dairy bring the chowder together — use half-and-half or heavy cream, whatever you have — but add sparingly to keep the chowder light and fresh. This creamy chowder gets its luscious, silky texture not from cream but from pureed cauliflower rice.
Light Corn Chowder is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Light Corn Chowder is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have light corn chowder using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Light Corn Chowder:
- Prepare 2 slices bacon, diced
- Get 1/2 cup diced onion
- Prepare 1/2 cup diced celery
- Prepare 1 clove garlic, minced
- Prepare 3 cups chicken broth
- Get 2 small stalks thyme
- Get 1/8 tsp smoked paprika
- Prepare 1/8 tsp black pepper
- Make ready 2 cups sweet corn
- Get 1/3 cup instant potato flakes
- Take 2 Tbsp reduced fat cream cheese
- Get to taste Salt
Stir the flour into the remaining cup of milk with a wire whisk until smooth. For our light corn chowder recipe, we started out by slowly sautéing just one slice of bacon, minced fine to distribute the pork flavor. Then we used the rendered fat to cook our onion, eliminating the butter from our chowder recipe altoget. Reduced calorie corn chowder is just as rich and flavorful as the full fat version.
Steps to make Light Corn Chowder:
- Add diced bacon to cold pot. Set to medium heat and cook until crisp. I leave the cooked bacon in the chowder, but if you prefer, you can remove with slotted spoon to add later.
- Add onion and celery to bacon (or bacon grease)and cook until tender.
- Add garlic clove and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
- Add corn, broth and seasonings. Simmer until corn is tender.
- Add potato flakes and simmer until desired consistency.
- Reduce heat to low. Add cream cheese and stir until melted. Taste and add salt if needed. Serve and enjoy!
- If you removed bacon, add as garnish
This healthy corn chowder calls for reduced-fat bacon, frozen corn, fat-free half and half and reduced-fat cheddar cheese. Jalapeno spices up this easy stew. Coat a large saucepan with cooking spray. Fresh Corn - I like to use yellow corn because it gives the chowder a nice color but white corn will work fine too.; Butter - this use used for sautéing and of course it's a staple duo with fresh corn.; Bacon - doesn't bacon make everything better? Here it adds an extra little oomph of flavor.
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