When you have good corn this soup celebrates its bounty. This soup is sweet like corn and luscious with a touch a cream and lobster, but the bacon adds a smoky element that compliments these flavors nicely. Creamy Corn Soup with Butter Poached Lobster & Chive Oil.
Creamy Corn Soup with Butter Poached Lobster & Chive Oil
Print This Recipe Yield 6Source Adapted from Seasons in the Wine CountryPublished
Ingredients
- 8 ears corn
- 4 slice thick cut bacon
- 2 tablespoon ubsalted butter
- 1 medium onion, preferably sweet such as maui, vidalia or walla walla, diced
- 1 large shallot, diced
- 8 sprigs thyme
- 4 sprigs fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 2 sprigs sage
- 6 cup chicken stock
- 1 pound yukon gold potatoes, peeled and diced
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt, or to tatse
- 1 teaspoon white pepper, or to taste
- ½ cup heavy cream
- 3 butter poached lobster tails (see recipe section), coarsely chopped
- 6 tablespoon chive oil (see recipe section)
Directions
Cut all the kernels from the cobs. Discard all but 2 of the cobs. Cut the remaining cobs in half crosswise.
Heat a large Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the bacon slices in a single layer and cook until they have rendered their fat, but not yet browned. Add the butter, onions and shallots to the pot, increasing the temperature to medium-high. Sweat the onions and shallots with the bacon, stirring occasionally until they are translucent, about 5 minutes.
Using kitchen twine tie the thyme, parsley and sage sprigs together in a bundle adding them to the pot. Add the chicken stock, potatoes, and the corn cob pieces. Season generously with salt and white pepper. Bring the mixture to a boil then lower the heat to a simmer and cook the mixture until the potatoes soften, about 20 minutes.
Add the cream and the corn kernels, stirring to combine. Simmer about 5 minutes. Remove the soup from the heat and discard the bacon, herb bundle and corncobs. Then, using an immersion blender, blend the soup until completely pureed. Taste and adjust seasoning if necessary.
Pass the soup through a fine meshed sieve into a sauce pan. It should be velvety, but not too thick. Adjust with a little water or more chicken stock if needed. Gently reheat the soup.
To serve: Divide the soup evenly between 6 soup bowls. Mound some of the butter poached lobster on top and drizzle each one with about 1 tablespoon chive oil. Serve warm.
I love the sound and look of this tart. It seems as though it wouldn’t be too sweet, more of a savory sweet dessert, and the crunch of the pine nuts would be a perfect foil for the creamy cheese filling. I’ll take two! — S
that is one delicious looking tart you got there!
This tart looks perfect! Tyler taught you well (as least for the filling!).
Growing up in an Italian home, I’ve eaten ricotta my entire life but based on your description of the ricotta you received from Hidden Springs Creamery…I’m thinking I probably have never eaten real fresh ricotta.
The tart with lemon and pine nuts is a beautiful use of the ricotta.
greg even the photo of the empty tart is beautiful. i learned zero cooking skills from my mom, in fact she was so bad at cooking that it actually inspired me to make things better–tastier, that combined with my fathers’ restaurant-wanderlust all made me want to bake and create.
wonderful read greg–happy cooking!
This tart is amazing, wonderful with pine nuts on top!
That tart looks so refreshing and lemony. Tasty!
That tart looks so creamy and lemony. Yummy! Wanna trade some ice cream for a piece of tart? 🙂
I’ve learned to appreciate ricotta even more over the last year or so. I cook or bake with it much, I think I should more. Beautiful tart!!!
Beautiful photos in this post! This creamy tart has a lovely combination of flavors.
OMG. I suspect it doesn’t get any better than this. Just gorgeous!
That is one gorgeous tart!
Gorgeous tart! Love the use of ricotta!
That is one spectacular tart, Greg, I love the pine nuts and the strawberries must make it just spectacular. Lovely photo too!
This looks real fabulous. You have all my favourite ingredients there. I wish I can have a slice!