Nik Sharma’s hen and sweet corn soup recipe will relieve you heat in the center of the last few months of winter.
By Nik Sharma
Here is my own end on the hen sweet-corn soup that I fondly keep in mind and miss. This recipe works massive with left-over shredded hen (if the exercise of left-over hen, then exercise 2 cups of cooked shredded hen) and unusual or frozen sweet-corn. I cherish to make exercise of leeks to sort the soup because they offer a strong sort to the inventory and additionally brighten the color. If you happen to cherish this soup a tiny hotter, then add a few more thai peppers to it. While making ready the leeks, I safe it vital to nick them in half lengthwise and then nick them finely. I then rinse them below frigid water to make a decision any sand particles that will neatly be trapped all the procedure via the spaces of the stem.
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Nik Sharma’s hen and sweet corn soup recipe will relieve you heat in the center of the last few months of winter.
- 4 medium lean hen breasts
- 4 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 6 cups low-sodium hen inventory
- 1/2 cup finely sliced leeks
- 1 cup frozen sweet-corn
- 1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce
- 1/3 cup rice wine vinegar
- 1 finely chopped thai chili pepper
- 1 heaped teaspoon cornflour
- 3 to 4 tablespoons of water
- 1 massive egg, lightly beaten
- salt and pepper to sort
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- Heat two tablespoons of the vegetable oil in a large stockpot on a medium flame. Pat every hen breast with a handsome paper towel to raise end in any liquids and then season the breasts with salt and pepper on each and every sides. Add every breast to the unusual oil in the stockpot. Quilt the pot with a lid. Cook the hen breasts on each and every sides till the meat is delicate. This ought to calm own end about 20 minutes. As soon as the hen is completely cooked, decrease the flame to a low simmer, make a selection the hen breasts and relieve them on a plate to chill. Drain and fetch any liquids from the stockpot and relieve aspect (this would perchance well additionally fair be added help to the soup to present a flavorful inventory). When the hen is frigid ample to be handled, shred the meat and relieve it lined so it would now not dry.
- Within the the same inventory pot, heat the comfort of the oil and add the leeks. Fry the leeks in the oil for approximately 3 minutes till they soften.
- Dawdle in the frozen corn to the stockpot and put collectively dinner for one other 3 minutes on a medium flame.
- Now add the hen inventory and the left-over liquid that became drained from the hen in step 1. Mix in the shredded hen, soy sauce, vinegar, and chili pepper. Cook on low heat for 10 minutes.
- In a dinky bowl, compose a slurry of the corn flour in the water and add it to the soup stirring briskly.
- Narrate the soup to a boil and then with fixed stirring add in the beaten egg. The egg proteins will coagulate without lengthen to make threads.
- Lower the flame to a delicate simmer and season with salt and pepper.
- Serve the soup hot. You can garnish the soup with freshly chopped scallions or some chopped chilies.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 30 mins
Nik Sharma
Nik Sharma is the put collectively dinner, author and photographer in the help of “A Brown Desk” and for the time being resides in Washington D.C. He’s a self-taught put collectively dinner that’s consistently looking out for to infuse “exotic” spices and system by studying various cooking methods in day-to-day meals with the motto of holding all cooking methods fun, straightforward and vital.
