Punkin' Corn Chowder
By: Holly Wilson
Published: Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 3:38pm

Ingredients




1 large shallot
2 tablespoons +1 butter
3 tablespoons Flour
1 cup milk
2/3 cup Chicken Broth
1/2 14.5 oz can pumpkin
2 cups frozen corn
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
Salt and pepper
Heavy Cream
Handful fresh sage
1 teaspoon fresh grated ginger
2 pieces prosciutto

Preparation

1 In a small, heavy bottom sauce pan, add heavy cream, sage, ginger and salt.  Heat but do not boil.  When warm, turn off heat and let cream steep.  Allow the cream to cool and strain into a measuring cup. 2 Meanwhile, in large pot, melt 2tbs butter over medium heat. Add shallots and sweat for 3 minutes.  Add flour and allow to cook until not raw.  Slowly add milk and whisk to avoid lumps.  Add salt and pepper at this point.  Whisk until mixture thickens, add cinnamon and nutmeg.  Turn heat to medium low and add pumpkin.  Stir till combined.  Begin adding chicken broth to thin mixture to your liking. Turn heat to low and add in frozen corn.  Add additional salt and pepper at this point to taste. Finish chowder with last Tbs. of butter. 3 While corn is cooking, place two slices prosciutto or bacon in small skillet.  Fry over medium high heat until crispy. 4 Ladle soup into serving dish, slowly swirl in sage/ginger infused cream. Crumble prosciutto on top. (and pepitas if you don’t forget J ) 5 I also served this with croustinis for dipping.  Filling and delicious.

About


I had a version of pumpkin soup the other day and I thought, I can do that….and better!!  Really, that’s exactly what I said! So played around a bit, tossed it around in my head and came up with this.  Oh and can I tell you that I really wanted to garnish this with pepitas..LOVE THEM.  Searched my market high and low for them.  My produce guy rescued me and pointed me in the right direction…then, I completely forgot them!! Oh man….  But I digress..lets move on…
·         Punkin corn chowder drizzled with cream infused with sage and ginger.  Topped with crispy prosciutto.