Easy Chicken and Corn Chowder

Name: Easy Chicken and Corn Chowder
Prep time: 1 h 10 min
Cook time: 1 h 10 min
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 118 milliliters butter; 1 small carrot, finely diced; 1 stalk celery, diced; 2 cooked rotisserie chicken breast halves, shredded; 946 milliliters chicken stock, divided; 355 milliliters white corn kernels; 355 milliliters yellow corn kernels; 118 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 clove garlic, minced; 8 servings salt and ground black pepper to taste; 591 milliliters half-and-half; 1 pinch nutmeg; 1 small onion, finely diced; 4 russet potatoes, diced

Easy Chicken and Corn Chowder might be a good recipe to expand your main course collection. This recipe serves 8. One serving contains 447 calories, 16g of protein, and 23g of fat. This recipe covers 16% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have corn kernels, rotisserie chicken breast halves, onion, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the half & half you could follow this main course with the Coconut Cream Pie Made With Half & Half as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 1 hour and 10 minutes.

Instructions

Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat; cook and stir carrot, celery, onion, and garlic into hot butter until slightly softened, about 2 minutes. Stir flour into mixture to make a paste; cook until lightly browned and flour gives off a slightly toasted smell, about 5 minutes. Watch carefully, flour burns easily.

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Butter

Carrot

Celery

Garlic

All Purpose Flour

Onion

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Sauce Pan

Remove saucepan from heat and set aside to cool, about 15 minutes.

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Sauce Pan

Stir white and yellow corn, potatoes, chicken, and 3 cups of chicken stock in a large soup pot over medium heat.

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Chicken Stock

Potato

Whole Chicken

Corn

Soup

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Pot

Whisk remaining 1 cup chicken stock into vegetables and flour mixture until thoroughly combined. Stir mixture into ingredients in soup pot. Bring to a simmer, stirring constantly, until thick, about 5 minutes.

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Chicken Stock

Vegetable

All Purpose Flour

Soup

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Whisk

Pot

Stir half-and-half, nutmeg, salt, and black pepper into chowder. Bring back to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer until potatoes are tender, about 20 minutes.

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Black Pepper