Smoky Cheddar Ham And Corn Chowder Recipes

HAM AND CHEDDAR CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large stockpot over medium high heat.
• Add onion, carrots, and celery and sauté for 5 minutes.
• Add garlic and sauté for an additional 30 seconds.
• Add the potatoes, chicken stock, cayenne pepper, and coriander.
• Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to medium and simmer, covered, for 35 minutes.
• Add whole kernel corn with its juice, creamed corn, cheese , and milk.
• Simmer for an additional 7 minutes, stirring frequently.
• Season with Worcestershire.
• Add sliced green onion and diced ham. Season with salt and pepper.
• Serve topped with additional green onions if desired.

SMOKY CHEDDAR, HAM AND CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, cook and stir ham over medium-high heat until browned. Add potatoes, milk, corn and onion. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, 20-25 minutes or until potatoes are tender., Remove from heat; stir in cheese until melted.

CHEDDAR CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a large stockpot over medium-high heat, cook the bacon and olive oil until the bacon is crisp, about 5 minutes. Remove the bacon with a slotted spoon and reserve. Reduce the heat to medium, add the onions and butter to the fat, and cook for 10 minutes, until the onions are translucent.
• Stir in the flour, salt, pepper, and turmeric and cook for 3 minutes. Add the chicken stock and potatoes, bring to a boil, and simmer uncovered for 15 minutes, until the potatoes are tender. If using fresh corn, cut the kernels off the cob and blanch them for 3 minutes in boiling salted water. Drain. (If using frozen corn you can skip this step.) Add the corn to the soup, then add the half-and-half and cheddar. Cook for 5 more minutes, until the cheese is melted. Season, to taste, with salt and pepper. Serve hot with a garnish of bacon.

SMOKY CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• Heat the EVOO over medium-high heat in a soup pot. Add the bacon and brown to crisp, then remove with a slotted spoon and reserve the bacon bits. To the bacon drippings, add the garlic, onions and chiles, and cook to soften, 8 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the corn and season with the thyme, paprika and salt and pepper, and stir. Add the cobs to the pot along with the bay leaves, potato and cover with the stock. Add a little water to the stock if it does not cover the corn. Cook the soup, partially covered, 20 to 30 minutes. Remove the cobs and bay leaves and puree with an immersion blender until the corn is creamed. Stir in the butter and lime juice and add hot sauce, to taste. Cool and store for a make-ahead meal. Reheat over a medium flame.
• Serve the corn chowder topped with bacon, scallions, herbs and cheese.

CHEESY HAM & CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• Place the first 8 ingredients in a 6-qt. slow cooker. Cook, covered, on low 8-10 hours or until potatoes are tender., In a small bowl, mix cornstarch and milk until smooth; stir into soup. Cook, covered, on high 20-30 minutes or until thickened, stirring occasionally. Add cheese, sour cream and parsley. Stir until cheese is melted.

HAM AND CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat; cook and stir onion until translucent, 5 to 10 minutes. Add potatoes and ham to onion; cook and stir until ham is heated through, about 5 minutes.
• Mix whipping cream, creamed corn, frozen corn kernels, milk, water, chicken bouillon, garlic powder, onion powder, and ground ginger into onion-potato mixture; cook over medium-high heat until potatoes are softened, 30 to 45 minutes. Season soup with salt and pepper.

CHEESY HAM AND CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• Stir chicken broth, carrots, chicken bouillon, bay leaves, sea salt, pepper, thyme, marjoram, and garlic powder together in a Dutch oven; bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium, and cook for 10 minutes. Add potatoes and onion; cook for 10 minutes more. Add celery; cook until all vegetables are fork tender, about 10 minutes more.
• Melt butter in a saucepan over low heat. Remove from heat and whisk flour into butter until smooth. Return saucepan to medium heat; gradually add milk to butter mixture, whisking constantly, and cook until mixture thickens, 6 to 7 minutes.
• Stir milk mixture into vegetable mixture; add corn, Cheddar cheese, and ham, reduce heat to low, and simmer until ham is heated through and cheese melts, 10 to 15 minutes.

CREAMY HAM AND CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• On a firm non-breakable surface, take a clean hammer and crack the middle of the ham bone so that marrow can escape during cooking.
• Place ham bone flat in the bottom of a pot and add enough water to just cover.
• Simmer over medium heat for 30 minutes.
• Remove bone and cut off the remaining tender ham meat; set meat aside.
• Turn up the heat on the ham broth and reduce down until you have about a couple of cups of broth, or to desired strength.
• Skim the fat from the broth.
• Melt butter in a large pan; remove from heat and mix in flour until smooth.
• Slowly add 1 cup milk, stirring constantly.
• Return pan to stove and cook on low heat until milk thickens.
• Stir the corn, the ham pieces you set aside earlier, dried minced onion, and minced garlic into thickened milk; then slowly stir in the remaining milk and the ham broth.
• Cook on low for about 15 minutes, but do not boil.
• Add salt, pepper, and paprika to taste.
• *Note: how much meat you leave on the bone is up to you, but I like to have a couple of cups of ham bits mixed into this chowder.
• Optional: you can add a cup of cooked, chopped potato chunks to the soup near the end of the cooking, if you like.

HAM, CORN & CHEDDAR CHOWDER

Steps:

• Cook bacon in a large heavy saucepan over moderate heat until crisp; remove bacon from pan and set aside.
• Add chopped onion to bacon fat in pan and cook, stirring until onion is softened. Add flour and stir to blend. Stir in broth and bring to a boil. Add potato and simmer, covered, stirring occasionally, until potatoes are just tender, about 8 to 10 minutes.
• Stir in cream, corn and ham. Add cheddar, stirring just until cheese melts (do not let boil) and season generously with pepper. Serve bowls of cheddar topped with reserved bacon and chopped green onions.