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Chipotle Corn Chowder

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January 10, 2012

Whole Food Cleanse-Day 10

Since making the Veggie Indian Curry a few days ago, I have been addicted to using the slow cooker. It is so easy to do and so far everything has turned out so flavorful. Hello? Why has it taken this long to figure this out? Anyway, I highly recommend using one anytime you make a soup or stew.

Mama Sita brought be over a bag of fresh corn from the farmers market and I had a lot of left over potatoes, carrots, celery and onions from making the curry. So I thought I’d make a corn chowder in the slow cooker.

I stumbled upon a Corn Chowder with Chilies recipe from The Pioneer Woman. Corn chowder with chilies?! Yes, please!! I’m surprised I didn’t think this combo since I love using Chipotle peppers in a lot of my cooking. She also shares a secret thickening agent which she calls “weird” but I call brilliant especially since I’m not eating flour during this cleanse. The polenta is a great substitute and works well. She inspired my veggie version of this absolutely perfect blend of corn and spicy peppers!

Chipotle Corn Chowder

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Cook Time: 5 hours

Total Time: 5 hours, 30 minutes

Yield: 8 servings

Serving Size: 1 soup bowl

Chipotle Corn Chowder

Ingredients

5 cups organic veggie broth
2 1/2 cups low fat organic milk
3 1/2 cups corn (about 4 ears)
3 1/2 cups potatoes, diced
1 cup carrots, chopped
1 onion, chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 Chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, minced (for a medium hot spicy soup)
1/2 can of green chilies, minced (7 oz can)
8 slices of pickled jalapeno peppers, minced
4 T polenta
1 T organic no salt butter
1 t organic no salt seasoning
1/2 t salt
1/2 t black pepper

Instructions

In a large pan, saute onions and garlic with butter on medium high heat for several minutes until onions are transparent
Add all ingredients except polenta into a slow cooker and cook on high for 4 1/2 hours
Spoon out 1/2 cup of broth in to a small bowl and mix with polenta, stirring into a paste and return back to crock pot, stir well and cook on low heat for another 1/2 hour to hour

The longer you cook this, the soup with thicken and the flavors will blend

Use more or less Chipotle peppers for desired spiciness. One of these hot peppers goes a long way.

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Chop all the veggies and combine with veggie broth and milk.

Add in sauteed onions and garlic. Mix well and let the slow cooker do it’s thing while you do your thing.

Come home and enjoy!

Super Food Ingredient: Corn

Corn is a good source of vitamin B1(thiamine) and B5(pantothenic acid), vitamins C, E, folic acid and the minerals magnesium and phosphorus.
It is also great source of complex carbohydrate and fiber and essential fatty acids.
Yellow corn is high is lutein, a carotenoid which helps protect against heart disease and eye condition called macular degeneration.