🥣 What Makes This Recipe So Good
A simple recipe made with simple ingredients – what’s not to like? This corn soup is wonderfully filling since it’s mostly a super smooth blend of corn, potatoes, onions, and heavy cream. It’s easy on the wallet, which is super great if you’re on a tight grocery budget, and you can use fresh, frozen, or even canned corn, so it’s a fairly accessible recipe, too. This is a great recipe if you need to use up a bunch of veggies, fresh herbs, leftover bacon, etc. Feel free to toss in celery, carrots, bell peppers, or sweet potatoes. Add fresh thyme, basil, or parsley. Garnish with a sprinkle of cooked and crumbled bacon. There’s a decent amount of wiggle room here! Since you can use any type of corn for corn soup, you can make this recipe any time of year. Summer is peak corn season, but corn freezes really well – just check out our post about freezing corn below! That means you can whip up a hearty stockpot full of creamy corn soup in the dead of winter if you’re so inclined. Doesn’t a bowl of rich, summery flavor sound extra divine in mid-January?
👩🏼‍🍳 Chef’s Tips
I recommend puréeing the majority of the corn kernels until they’re smooth and fully combined, then adding in the last cup of corn whole, to give the soup a little texture. You are more than welcome to purée all of the corn if you don’t want any whole kernels in your soup! Just add the entire 5 cups to the pot at the same time and then purée until you’ve got your ideal texture. The lime juice is a small but highly effective touch! It brings out the natural sweetness of the corn without making the corn soup taste like a Latin-inspired dish. I highly, highly recommend you don’t skip it! If you don’t have an immersion blender, you can use a traditional blender to purée the soup. There are a few things you’ll want to do in order to safely blend the hot liquid – we’ve outlined them on the recipe card below. Do not cut corners, or you may end up with a huge (and dangerous) mess to clean up when you should be enjoying dinner.
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