Chicken and sweetcorn soup

[Paul]

Chicken and sweetcorn soup

Serves 4 (or 2 very hungry people!)

1 tin creamed corn
Canola oil
2 spring onions
20 cent size chunk of ginger
2 chicken breasts cut into chunks
1 tablespoon mirin (Asian food shop)
1 teaspoon  salt
500ml chicken stock or water
2 tablespoons light soy sauce
1 tablespoon cornflour mixed with 2 tablespoons water and 2 teaspoons sesame oil
1 egg
1 tablespoon black vinegar (Asian food shop)



Blitz spring onion and ginger on 6, scrape down
Add 1 tablespoon Canola oil and cook on speed 2 at 100 C for 3 minutes
Add chicken and blitz on 6-7 until minced
Add mirin and salt and chicken stock
Cook for 15 minutes on 100 speed 1 or 2 (enough to keep it circulating slowly)
Tip out some hot soup into a cup and add the cornflour mixture, stir, then tip this back into TMX
Reduced temperature to 90 C and mix for 1 minute on speed 1 or 2.  Turn off heat
Mix egg with a pinch of salt and some oil, and pour on top of soup.  Mix on 3-4 for about 30 seconds
Test for seasoning before serving, I like to put some sesame droplets on top


I love chicken and sweetcorn soup.  Once when I was 19, I had glandular fever and this was the only thing I could eat.  My poor Mum and Dad had to drive daily to a distant restaurant to get it for me - the local one had a yukky version which I did not crave!  This is much nicer than those bright highlighter-yellow fluorescent versions you get in cheap Chinese restaurants.  This recipe is derived from a crab soup recipe of Stephanie Alexander, who in turn has tweaked it from Irene Kuo.  I hate crab, hence the chicken.  Stephanie uses fresh sweetcorn, you can but I find the texture is wrong for this soup.  Irene uses tinned corn (not creamed corn) but again I think creamed corn gives the right consistency.  It would be easy to adapt the recipe and use fresh corn though, maybe cook it a bit longer.  I think this has to be my favourite soup.

[brazen20au]

creamed corn is REALLY easy to make in the thermomix too

[Paul]

I suspected it might be!  How do I do it?

[judydawn]

We are a chicken soup family too.  When my 39 year old daughter is ill, all she wants is some of my chicken soup and at the moment her 4 year old daughter only wants chicken soup (and she isn't sick).  Mind you, all that changed the other night when I took them down a casserole dish of moussaka and the little one came back for seconds!  Will try your version Paul.

[brazen20au]

i can't quit remember LOL but I will google later and remind myself and report back

[Thermomixer]

I suspected it might be!  How do I do it?

If you place a can of corn kernels, including some of the "juice" and blitz on 8 or 9 for 20 or 30 seconds then it should resemble creamed corn,  Add more water or "juice" til right consistency.

Raw corn - scrape kernels off cob, blitz, add some water as needed - can't be too difficult ?

[thermogirlshaz]

I think that the creamed corn is the best in this recipe .   

[Thermomixer]

Thanks TGshaz & welcome to the forum