Easy Lobster Corn Chowder Recipe
This Easy Lobster Corn Chowder is a decadent and delicious soup! It's so easy to make you can have it on your table in about one hour.
Servings 6 servings
Ingredients
The Soup Base:
- 6 tbsp butter
- 1 cup chopped yellow onion or sweet onion
- 1/4 cup cream sherry
- 1 tsp sweet paprika
- 4 cups whole milk
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1 cup dry white wine
Lobster Soup:
- 1 lb of lobster meat in bite-size pieces (I used pre-cooked)
- 3 cups of corn fresh or frozen
- 1/4 pound bacon diced
- 2 cups medium Yukon gold potatoes cut into large chunks (about 2 potatoes)
- 1 large yellow onion or sweet onion chopped
- 3 celery stalks diced
- 1/2 tbsp kosher salt
- 1 tsp fresh ground black pepper
- 2 tsp chopped fresh chives or finely chopped green onion
- 1/4 cup cream sherry
Instructions
- To make the soup base, melt butter in a large stock pot, then add the onions and sauté until soft (but not browned), just a couple of minutes.
- Then add the sherry and paprika. Mix well and cook for about 1 minute.
- Add the milk, cream and wine.
- Then simmer over medium-low heat for about 15 minutes, making sure to stir often.
- While the soup base is simmering, in a separate pan cook the bacon until brown and crisp. Then remove the bacon from the pan, and set it aside.
- To the same pan that you cooked the bacon, add the potatoes, onions, celery, corn, salt and pepper. Cook for about 5 minutes.
- After this time, add the potato/corn mixture to the milk soup base in your stock pot.
- Add the lobster meat and sherry.
- Cook at a gentle simmer for about 15 more minutes, until the potatoes are tender.
- Garnish with the chives (or green onion).
- Enjoy!
NOTE:
- You can add the chopped bacon as a garnish at serving time, or you can add it directly to the soup at the same time you add the potato/corn mix. We prefer to add it to the soup and let it simmer with the rest of the ingredients. We like the extra flavour it adds to the soup.