15 minutes, start to finish, with 3 minutes prep time.
EMERGENCY Corn Chowder Soup!
For busy people everywhere – this is the easy soup recipe of your dreams. This Corn Chowder Soup is possibly the most effortless hearty soup I know how to make that’s 100% as delicious as it sounds and looks. I call it an emergency recipe because it calls for barely any prep, involving not much more than popping open a couple of cans. No dirtying measuring cups. No mixing cornflour slurries in separate bowls. No chopping other than dicing one potato. It’s hearty and creamy, and here’s all you need to make this:
What you need for this incredible easy soup recipe
How to make Emergency Corn Chowder Soup
Here’s how this goes down: Dinner. Done. 3 minutes effort. 12 minute cook!
When you’ve got the time, it’s truly worth making Corn Chowder from scratch using fresh corn. Use this Emergency Corn Chowder for all the other times!
Customisations!
I’ve kept this corn soup simple, yet hearty enough to have as a meal. But there’s plenty of customisation options – adding stuff in, making it vegetarian etc. Here are a few ideas!
Make it vegetarian – skip the bacon and use vegetable broth instead of chicken stock. No bacon? Sub with ham, or skip it, stir in 1/4 cup parmesan instead to add a hit of savouriness. Add chicken – before adding potato, add 1/2 cup of water and 1 chicken breast, simmer with lid on for 10 minutes, then remove chicken and shred. Add potato and proceed with recipe. Add salmon – bake seasoned salmon at 180C/350F for 15 minutes, flake then sprinkle across top of soup. Add veggies – saute diced veggies in the bacon fat before proceeding with the recipe. Mmmm…. Creamy Vegetable Corn Chowder!
And though this is an Emergency Recipe and one would assume you don’t have time to make bread on this occasion, if you do have the foresight to plan, consider one of these Soup Dunkers.
Soup Dunkers
This corn chowder recipe came into existence after I started my foray into this food blogging world I now call my business. After yet another day where I’d been cooking since 7 am yet somehow found myself in a position at 6.30 pm with nothing for dinner because I either: a) gave it all away; b) it was all sweet “stuff”; or c) I’d been working on perfecting a Dan Dan Noodles recipe all day and just can’t face it for dinner. So it started with a rummage in the pantry, digging out cans of corn, and 15 minutes later (after very little effort on my part), ended with a mighty tasty creamy corn soup that I couldn’t get enough of. The bacon certainly helps. 😇 – Nagi x
Watch how to make it
More Emergency Recipes for very busy people.
Just like this Corn Chowder recipe, Ultra Lazy these may be, but they are all made from scratch and seriously tasty!
Emergency Chicken Rice Casserole (from SCRATCH!) Emergency EASY Fish recipe – Parmesan Crumbed Fish! Ultra Lazy HEALTHY Chicken and Broccoli Pasta Bake
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Winnie the Pooh was always my favourite growing up….😂 The sheer ridiculousness of watching him waddle around in this crazy outfit totally made my morning!! PS This is not the last you will see of this outfit! Purchased from Harajuku in Tokyo – where else could you get something like this??!
