Tarragon Corn Chowder Recipe | Simply Recipes http://www.simplyrecipes.com A family cooking and food blog with hundreds of healthy, whole-food recipes for the home cook. Photographs, easy-to-follow instructions, and reader comments. Fri, 24 May 2013 08:16:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Simply Recipes » Tarragon Corn Chowder Recipe | Simply Recipes http://www.simplyrecipes.com http://www.simplyrecipes.com/wp-content/themes/simply/i/logo.png?v=2 301 47 A family cooking and food blog with hundreds of healthy, whole-food recipes for the home cook. Photographs, easy-to-follow instructions, and reader comments. Tarragon Corn Chowder http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/tarragon_corn_chowder/ http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/tarragon_corn_chowder/#comments Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:20:34 +0000 Elise http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/tarragon_corn_chowder Tarragon Corn Chowder (photo)

This is a soup made for summer, fresh and bright. Compared to many corn chowders that can be a bit on the heavy side with cream and bacon, this chowder is rather light. It gets its body from Yukon gold potatoes and fresh corn. The cool thing about this soup is the way the soup base is made—after you strip the kernels from the cobs, you just simmer the cobs for half an hour. You could use this method for any corn or vegetable soup for which you wanted a stronger corn flavor. I love the way tarragon pairs with corn, to me its a perfect taste complement. But if tarragon isn’t your thing, you might try it with basil or thyme. In that case just swap out the fennel for more onions and potatoes.

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This is a soup made for summer, fresh and bright. Compared to many corn chowders that can be a bit on the heavy side with cream and bacon, this chowder is rather light. It gets its body from Yukon gold potatoes and fresh corn. The cool thing about this soup is the way the soup base is made—after you strip the kernels from the cobs, you just simmer the cobs for half an hour. You could use this method for any corn or vegetable soup for which you wanted a stronger corn flavor. I love the way tarragon pairs with corn, to me its a perfect taste complement. But if tarragon isn’t your thing, you might try it with basil or thyme. In that case just swap out the fennel for more onions and potatoes.

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