Sweet Corn Chicken Soup
Sweet Corn Chicken Soup is a very popular Chinese soup where creamy style corn or pre-cooked corn is cooked in chicken stock along with vegetables of your choice. An ideal and comforting soup to keep you warm in cold winter days.
Ingredients
For chicken stock
- 3 pieces pieces of chicken with bones
- 4 cups of water
- 1 roughly chopped onion
- 1 carrot chopped
- 1 garlic chopped
- 1 stem of celery optional
- 1 tablespoon black pepper
- 1 tsp salt or as per taste
For the soup
- 3 cloves of garlic finely chopped
- ½ cup or more of sweet corn kernels can also use creamy style
- 1 teaspoon black pepper powder
- 1 teaspoon dark soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil optional
- 2 tablespoon chopped spring onion
- 1 tablespoon egg white
- 3 teaspoon cornflour mixed with 1/2 cup water.
Instructions
Chicken Stock:
- Boil 4 cups of water and add chicken pieces, onion, salt, and black pepper powder. This will take about 20 min on low flame. Remove the chicken pieces and discard the bones and shred the meat into small bits. Reserve the chicken stock for soup.
To prepare the soup:
- Heat oil in a saucepan and fry garlic till soft.
- Add sweet corn, black pepper powder, soy sauce and chicken stock along with chicken pieces and bring to a boil.
- Reduce the flame and cook for 2 min. Now add the cornflour mixture according to your desired thickness and cook for 1 more min.
- Add egg white in a thin stream and keep stirring while adding.
- Finally, add chopped spring onion along with drizzles of sesame oil and serve hot.
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