Roasted Corn Soup
- 4 large corn cobs
- 25 G butter
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 each sweet red bell peppers red (optional)
- 1 large potatoes
- 1/4 cup cream
- 1 x seasonings
- 4 cups chicken broth or 4 tsp chicken stock powder in 4 cups water
- Pull back the husks from the corn cobs and remove the silk.
- Melt the butter and brush over the kernels then pull the husks back over to cover the husks again.
- Place the corn in one layer in a roasting pan with whole, unpeeled garlic cloves, and halved red capsicum if using, and bake at 220 cup for 20 minutes.
- While corn roasts, peel and roughly chop the potatoes and cook in a large pot with the chicken stock until the potato is tender.
- Using a slotted spoon lift out the potato and put in a food processor, blender or mouli.
- Take the husks off the roasted cobs.
- With a sharp serrated knife, cut the corn from the cobs, then scrape any remaining corn flesh from the cobs using a spoon.
- Puree the kernels and flesh from 3 cobs with the potato, add the pulp squeezed from the garlic cloves, then return the mixture to the pot with the chicken stock.
- Finely dice the capsicum, discarding the stem and seeds.
- Add to the soup with the corn cut from the last cob, add the cream, and bring to the boil.
- Adjust seasonings to suit your taste, adding a little salt, sugar, hot sauce and freshly ground black pepper if necessary.
- Re-heat just before serving.
- Top each serving with finely chopped parsley.
- Barbecue the corn, garlic (on a skewer) and the red capsicum of preferred.
corn cobs, butter, garlic, sweet red bell peppers, potatoes, cream, seasonings, chicken broth
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/roasted-corn-soup-33544 (may not work)