How to Make Healthy Corn Chowder

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As the school year starts, I know how important it is to get my family in a routine and have a healthy meal to serve. Learn how to make my healthy Corn Chowder from Cook Like A Dad

How to Make Healthy Corn
Chowder

Summer is over and schools
across America are back in session. As
the school year starts, I know how important it is to get my family in a
routine and have a healthy meal to serve. Learn how to make my healthy Corn
Chowder from Cook Like ADad

Soup is Good Food, Chowder is Better…

If I told you that a chowder
recipe is the fastest way to get you kids to eat more fruits and vegetables,
would you try it?

Chowder doesn’t have to be
about clams or seafood. In fact, this chowder recipe has everything to do with
fruits and vegetables. That’s right, fruits and veggies. As part of my
commitment to learn more plant-based nutrition, I have taken this corn chowder
recipe and tweeked it with some key ingredients. For
example, the creamy base for this chowder is made with Silk Coconut Milk. Not
only has Coconut Milk made it healthy with more calcium than dairy cream; but it
also adds a sweeter, creamier taste to the recipe that has made my kids ask for
more… Give it a try.


Shopping List: Feeds a Family of 5+plus

½ Gallon of Silk, Coconut
Milk

1-Cup of Bacon Bits

1-Cube of Salted Butter

2-3 Potatoes, peeled, cut and
cubed

2-Carrots, peeled, cut and
cubed

3-Celery Stalks, cut and
chopped

1-Orange or Red Pepper

3-Ears of Corn (Yellow or
White Corn)

1-Medium Onion, cut, and
chopped

1-Tablespoon of Montreal
Steak Seasoning

Optional Ingredient: 2 Garlic
Cloves, minced

Equipment:

Large Skillet / Fry Pan

Large Soup Pot

corn


Cooking Steps: Grill the Corn

The first step on this recipe
is to get the corn grilled. I like to have a few "burn marks" on my corn before
I add it to chowder mix because the burn adds to the flavor in this recipe. If
you have a BBQ, that is a bonus, but if you have a dry griddle, that will work
fine as well. Place griddle on Med/High
setting and cook corn.

The goal is to take 3-5 ears
of corn and get all sides nice and roasted without creating "popcorn", (That
means too much burn will make the corn pop). In this recipe, I am adding a
orange pepper because I like the sweet taste that the orange pepper adds to the
soup mix. Make sure all sides of the pepper are roasted. Place the pepper and
the corn in a large bowl to cool when
they are done roasting.

veggies

Next Step: Chop Veggies

Take your Carrots, Celery and
Onion and give them all a good "clean, cut and cube" lesson. Place these
veggies in a bowl and start with your next vegetable: the potato. Skin, Cut and
Cube your potatoes to about 1-inch cubes. Since potatoes and carrots take the longest
to cook, you want to make sure these two veggies are the smallest sized cut. When you are done cutting the potatoes, add
them to the other veggies and get ready for the next step.

corn


Next Step: Remove kernels, Colonel…

There are just words in the
American English dictionary that confuse me to this day, as in the case of corn
kernels and the Colonel in the Army… Either way, it is time to remove the
kernels from the corn and collect them in a separate bowl. Just take a butter
knife and run down the sides of each ear of corn and they should just drop
right of the ear. Now, take the same butter knife and cut and chop the orange
pepper. Make sure your remove the seeds and center of the pepper before
cutting.


Next Step: Bacon to the Rescue

Why add salt to this recipe
when you can have Bacon? Bacon makes life happen, Bacon is the source of all
good things in life. Ok, I am being silly, but when it comes to making kids eat
more fruits and vegetables in their diet, you have to be resourceful and smart
as a Dad Cooking Blogger. My kids love Bacon and that’s why it is here in this
recipe. Bacon adds just enough flavor and saltiness to this recipe and I am
able to make three children happy with one chowder recipe. Enough said. Add 1
Cup of Bacon Bits to the Corn kernels. In addition to the bacon bits, I minced
2 Garlic cloves. (The garlic is an optional ingredient to this recipe, but I
happened to like it.)

chowder

Next Step: The Soup Pot

Take a large Soup Pot and set
on a Medium Heat Setting, Add ½ half cube of butter and pour the potato,
celery, onion and carrot medley into the pot and cover the pot with a lid. Stir
frequently and allow the veggies to soften over the course of 10-12 minutes.
Add 1-Tablespoon of Montreal Steak Seasoning to the veggies and/or course Black
Pepper. (Either or both works fine). As these veggies begin to soften, it’s
time to add the other ingredients into the mix. Take the Corn, Bacon and Orange
Pepper medley and add them into the pot. Stir frequently and generously.

silk

Final Cooking Step: The Silk Factor

One of the "secret
ingredients" in this recipe is using Silk, Coconut Milk. Not only does the Coconut
Milk
add a special flavor to this recipe; it adds more nutrition than regular
dairy cream and more than half the calories. Part of my family commitment this
year was to introduce more plant-based nutrition and make healthy recipes that
taste great and add nutrition into their diet.

Now back to the chowder…

Take half your carton of
Coconut milk and pour it into the pot of veggies. Stir slowly and make sure the
Coconut milk is mixed well into the pot. Make sure your "milk line" is even
with the "veggie line". This means you have enough Coconut milk in the soup pot
that it has covered all of the vegetables. At this time, you can add the other half of the
cube of butter and cover the pot with a lid. Keep on a Med/Low heat setting and
bring the chowder to a simmer.

Allow to heat for another 12-
15 minutes and lower heat before serving.

Enjoy!

Richard JaramilloRichard “RJ” Jaramillo, is the Founder of SingleDad.com,
a website and social media resource dedicated to single parenting and specifically for the newly divorced, re-married, widowed and single Father with children.
RJ is self employed, entrepreneur living in San Diego and a father of three children. The mission of SingleDad is to help the community of Single Parents
“Make Life Happen…Again!”

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Richard “RJ” Jaramillo, is the Founder of SingleDad.com, a website and social media resource dedicated to single parenting and specifically for the newly divorced, re-married, widowed and single Father with children. RJ is self employed, entrepreneur living in San Diego and a father of three children. The mission of SingleDad is to help the community of Single Parents “Make Life Happen…Again!”