Easy Chicken and Corn Chowder

Description

This is a super easy chicken and corn chowder recipe that can be made quickly on the stove top or in a slow cooker.

Ingredients

  • ½ cup butter
  • 1 small carrot, finely diced
  • 1 stalk celery, diced
  • 1 small onion, finely diced
  • 1 clove garlic, minced
  • ½ cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 ½ cups white corn kernels
  • 1 ½ cups yellow corn kernels
  • 4 russet potatoes, diced
  • 2 cooked rotisserie chicken breast halves, shredded
  • 4 cups chicken stock, divided
  • 2 ½ cups half-and-half
  • 1 pinch nutmeg
  • salt and ground black pepper to taste

Instructions

  1. Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat; cook and stir onion
  2. carrot
  3. celery
  4. and garlic in hot butter until slightly softened
  5. about 2 minutes. Stir flour into mixture to make a paste; cook until lightly browned and flour gives off a slightly toasted smell
  6. about 5 minutes. Watch carefully as flour burns easily. Remove saucepan from heat and set aside to cool slightly.
  7. Meanwhile
  8. stir together potatoes
  9. chicken
  10. white and yellow corn
  11. and 3 cups stock in a large soup pot over medium heat.
  12. Whisk remaining 1 cup stock into vegetables and flour mixture until thoroughly combined. Stir mixture into the soup pot; bring to a simmer. Cook and stir until thick
  13. about 5 minutes.
  14. Stir half-and-half
  15. nutmeg
  16. salt
  17. and black pepper into chowder. Bring to a boil
  18. reduce heat to low
  19. and simmer until potatoes are tender
  20. about 20 minutes.

Prep Time: 25 mins

Cook Time: 30 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins

Servings: 8

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