Summer Fresh Corn Chowder (with Bacon).
You can have Summer Fresh Corn Chowder (with Bacon) using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Summer Fresh Corn Chowder (with Bacon)
- 🢂 1/2 lb of bacon, diced.
- 🢂 1 of medium onion, diced small.
- 🢂 2 of celery, diced small.
- 🢂 1 of large carrot, diced small.
- 🢂 6 ears of fresh corn.
- 🢂 3 cups of reserved "corn water" -stock.
- 🢂 2 cloves of garlic, minced.
- 🢂 1.5 cups of light cream (or half and half works).
- 🢂 to taste of Salt and pepper.
- 🢂 2 sprigs of fresh thyme.
- 🢂 1 tbs of corn starch made into slurry with about 1/3 cup water.
instructions Summer Fresh Corn Chowder (with Bacon)
- In a pot, boil ears of corn in water. Once cooked, reserve 3 cups of the water and cut the corn off the cobs and seg aside..
- In the same pot(now that you've dumped everything out) crisp your bacon and set aside to drain..
- In the SAME pot (1 pot wonder, here) saute your onion, garlic, potatoes, celery, carrots until the onions are translucent and veggies are glistening..
- Add your thyme and salt and pepper to taste and now stir in your corn..
- Pour in your reserved corn water. Bring everything to a boil, then reduce heat to medium/low..
- Once potatoes are cooked through and veggies are soft, SLOWLY stir in your cream. Then stir in your cornstarch slurry..
- Let everything come to a boil again, then reduce to low for 20 min.
- Serve with shredded cheese (optional) and your crumbled bacon. YUM!! ☆☆few dashes of Frank Red hot 👌👌☆.