Creole Crab & Corn Chowder – Allow The Practiced Clichés Roll!

It’s then trite to state that something is alone equally expert equally the ingredients that larn into it. Everyone knows that, right? It’s simply mutual sense. Except, at that spot I was, eating a really expert bowl of crab in addition to corn chowder that could have, should have, been really great; but it wasn’t because I didn’t remembered that quondam cliché.

As I scream numerous times inwards the video, this would ideally live on made inwards the middle of summer, amongst ears of fresh, sweet-as-sugar corn. If that’s non seasonally possible (i.e., you’re doing a Mardi Gras themed recipe inwards winter), you lot tin build a perfectly fine version using a premium-quality, extra-sweet, frozen corn. Or, you lot tin create what I did.

I used an quondam pocketbook of budget-brand corn I institute inwards the freezer. The strange affair is, I’m non sure where it came from, or what it was purchased for. There are things similar vodka in addition to fair-trade java beans that somehow look inwards my icebox equally if placed at that spot yesteryear invisible kitchen gremlins (btw, that would build a pretty cool demand a band), in addition to I tin alone assume that’s how the corn got inwards there.

So, spell I could own got simply walked two-blocks, in addition to bought an expensive pocketbook of something sweetness in addition to delicious, I instead went ahead in addition to used a production that alone a prison theatre warden could love. The expert intelligence is that fifty-fifty amongst the almost-flavorless corn, this chowder was really good, then if you lot create equally I say, in addition to non equally I clichéd, yours volition sure rock.

If you’re from New Orleans, I’d honey to listen if they build anything similar to this. As I acknowledge inwards the video, this is non my accept on to a greater extent than or less iconic Creole recipe, but a elementary soup inspired yesteryear those ingredients in addition to mode of cooking. Anyway, I promise you lot grade it a endeavor soon, in addition to laissez le bon (corn) temps rouler!

Ingredients:

2 tablespoon melted butter

1/2 loving cup diced onion

1/2 loving cup diced bell pepper, or jalapeno, or combination of whatever sweet/hot peppers

1/2 loving cup diced celery

salt in addition to pepper to taste

1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1/2 teaspoon Old Bay

1 1/2 tbsp flour

3 1/2 loving cup H2O or stock, divided (2 1/2 for the pot, in addition to 1 loving cup for the blender)

1 pound sweetness corn kernels, divided
2 cloves peeled garlic

8 oz fresh crab meat, divided

1/4 loving cup cream

1 tsp sweetness Castilian paprika, or to taste

green onion to garnish

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