This delicious, silky smooth chicken-sweetcorn soup, served with homemade croutons on the side, is a real winter warmer!
Serve this soup as a starter in the cold winter months or serve it to someone who is just recovering from a nasty cold. Kids too will love the soft bite of sweetcorn and the crunchiness of the buttered croutons floating on the soup.
I fried the croutons with a little butter on the pan, instead of making them in the oven, which I found much easier and less time-consuming too. To my delight I found them beautifully buttery and crunchy, just the perfect crusty accompaniment for the soup!
You'll need the following ingredients;
Ingredients Amounts
| Chicken | 100 g |
| Corn flour | 1 tbsp |
| Warm water | 2 cups |
| Sweetcorn | 1/4 cup |
| Vinegar | 1/4 tsp |
| Salt & pepper | |
| Eggs | 1 |
| Onion | 1 |
| Garlic | 3 cloves |
| Spring onion | 1 tbsp |
| Soy sauce | 1/2 tbsp |
| Olive oil | 1 tbsp |
Let’s make:
- Heat oil in a heavy bottom pan
- Drop chopped onions and garlic and saute a little. Do not brown. Just sweating is enough
- Add the chicken pieces cut into strips and stir fry for 2 mins
- Add salt and pepper
- Pour 1 & 1/2 cups of warm water, cover, and boil for 10 mins
- Next, pour the chicken broth through a sieve
- Separate the chicken pieces and tear them to thin strips
- Pour the chicken broth again into the pan and let it simmer
- Drop sweetcorn and spring onions and give a good stir
- Beat the egg and slowly pour it into the pan while stirring vigorously with a fork
- Add vinegar and Soy sauce
- Mix cornflour with 2tbsp of warm water and add into the pan and keep stirring
- Adjust the taste. Add a bit more water if the soup is too thick
- Mix everything and simmer under low flame for 3 – 5 mins while stirring continuously
- Serve piping hot in an elegant soup bowl with homemade croutons on the side
Homemade Croutons
- Spread butter on both sides of three bread slices
- Cut them into cubes
- Drop a blob of butter into a non-stick pan
- Drop the bread cubes and pan fry both sides until golden and crusty
- Delicious!
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