Appetizers / Soups / Salads

Spicy Corn Chowder takes several minutes to prepare.

Spicy Corn Chowder takes several minutes to cook.

Spicy Corn Chowder makes 8 servings.

The ingredients for Spicy Corn Chowder are:

8 cups Vegetable broth
2 bay leaves
6-8 corn cobs
1 large onion
1-2 Jalapeno peppers or (anaheim chilies for less spice)
3 tbsp butter
1-2 potatoes or yams
salt and pepper to taste
1 cup half and half

Here is how you make Spicy Corn Chowder:

Remove corn from cobs and set aside.Simmer vegetable broth in large pot with corn cobs and 2 bay leaves. Smash cobs with back of spoon to get corn milk in broth. Simmer for 30 min.In separate pan saute pepers and onions in butter (for less spice use poblano or anaheim chili peppers)Pull cobs and bay leaves out of pot; add sauteed onions and peppers and cubed potatoes, salt and pepper to taste; cook until potatoes are cooked. (Can use an emulsion blender to make pieces smaller); Add half and half and corn starch with water to thicken; bring to a slow boil and ready to serve.Serving Size: 8 1 cup servingsNumber of Servings: 8Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user KLINDBLOM1.

The nutritional information for Spicy Corn Chowder is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 8
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 169.0

• Total Fat: 5.5 g
• Cholesterol: 11.6 mg
• Sodium: 987.8 mg
• Total Carbs: 29.1 g
• Dietary Fiber: 3.9 g
• Protein: 3.6 g