Sweet Corn Soup With King Crab Meat
Delicious versatile Asian style soup that can be made in less than 30 minutes. Seafood can be replaced with chicken, smoked tofu or vegetables
Equipment
- Medium pot with lid
- Immersion or stick blender
Ingredients
- 4 cups corn kernels yellow, fresh, canned or frozen and defrosted
- 4 cups stock seafood, chicken or vegetable I used better than No chicken base bouillon
- 1 clove garlic crushed
- 1 slice ginger
- 3 tsp corn mixed in 2 tbsp water to make a slurry
- 3/4 cups crab meat king, dungeness or imitation
- 1 large egg beaten
- 1/2 tsp pepper white
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp sherry
- 2 green onions finely minced
Instructions
- In a pot over high heat, add stock ginger and garlic and bring to a boil. Turn heat down add sherry and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Place 3 cups of corn in a bowl and blend until creamy. Set aside.
- Remove and discard ginger and garlic from the fortified stock. Add blended corn and the 1 cup of whole kernels to the stock pot. Bring back to a boil and then turn down and simmer for 10 minutes to marry flavors together.
- Add crab meat and mix well.
- Add salt, white pepper and cornflour slurry. Mix well and bring to a rolling boil, stirring constantly until the soup has thickened.
- Once the soup has thickened, turn heat off and immediately stir to create a vortex and add the beaten egg in a thin stream. The residual heat will cook the egg thoroughly.
- Ladle into serving bowls and sprinkle generously with green onions.
Notes
Substitutions
This soup is so versatile.
This soup is so versatile.
- The stock can be seafood, lobster, chicken or vegetable
- Crab can be replace with chicken, vegetables, tofu or imitation crab meat or vegan seafood.
- Corn can be fresh (which is what I used), frozen or canned.
- Egg white in place of whole egg
Nutrition
Serving: 4gCalories: 201kcalCarbohydrates: 34gProtein: 13gFat: 4gSaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 66mgSodium: 1539mgPotassium: 516mgFiber: 3gSugar: 12gVitamin A: 925IUVitamin C: 14mgCalcium: 30mgIron: 1mg
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