Creamy Corn Chowder

About

Brenda Gantt

I am a self-taught cook. I started cooking around 18 years old. I stood in the kitchen and watched my mother, who was my biggest inspiration at the time, cook.

Serves 10.

 

INGREDIENTS

  • 1¼ cups Ensure® Vanilla powder
  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 2 small onions, diced
  • 3 stalks celery, diced
  • 2 medium carrots, diced
  • 2 medium potatoes, diced
  • 420g (1 tin) corn kernels
  • 3 bay leaves
  • 2L vegetable stock
  • 1½ cups Full cream milk
  • ⅓ cup flour
  • 3 rashers bacon, trimmed and chopped
  • ¼ cup chopped parsley to garnish

 

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Place bacon into a large soup pot with vegetable oil and cook on medium heat until golden brown.
  2. Add onions and celery and stir until softened.
  3. Add carrots, potatoes, corn, bay leaves and stock and simmer gently for 5 minutes, or until vegetables are tender.
  4. Remove from heat and add Ensure®  powder, flour and milk together and stir until smooth.
  5. Return to heat and simmer gently for a further 2-3 minutes and remove bay leaves.
  6. Serve sprinkled with parsley.

 

NUTRITION CONTENT PER SERVE:

  • Energy (kJ) 963
  • Protein (g) 9
  • Fat (g) 8
  • Saturated fat (g) 2
  • Carbohydrate (g) 28
  • Sugars (g) 9
  • Fibre (g) 4
  • Sodium (mg) 1076

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