Spicy Corn and Tomato Soup

⏱ 45 mins 🍽 4 serving(s) 🏷 One Dish Meal

This one pot meal delivers Mexican flavours in a hearty soup. It combines tomatoes, chorizo sausage and creamed corn, simmered with a hint of orange and hot sauce. The soup is served with a topping of corn chips melted with sharp cheddar cheese under the grill, adding a satisfying crunch. It serves four people.

Spicy Corn and Tomato Soup

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
  • 1 medium onion, chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic, pressed
  • 1 stalk celery, chopped
  • 1 grated orange, juice and zest of
  • 1/2-1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce or 1/2-1 teaspoon other hot pepper sauce, to taste
  • 2 lbs ripe plum tomatoes, chopped
  • 8 ounces chorizo sausage, sliced
  • 1 (13 ounce) can creamed corn
  • 4 ounces corn chips
  • 2 ounces sharp cheddar cheese

Method

  1. Warm the vegetable oil in a saucepan.
  2. Cook the chopped onion in the oil, stirring it until softened.
  3. Mix in the pressed garlic and chopped celery, continuing to cook and stir until the celery is tender.
  4. Incorporate the orange zest and juice, Tabasco sauce and chopped plum tomatoes. Cover the pan and let it simmer for 20 minutes. While the soup simmers, cook the sliced chorizo in a dry frying pan until it browns lightly.
  5. Drain any fat from the chorizo. Blend or process the tomato mixture until it is finely chopped.
  6. Stir the creamed corn into the blended mixture and return it all to the saucepan to heat through. Just before you are ready to serve, arrange the corn chips on a broiler pan.
  7. Scatter the sharp cheddar cheese over the chips and place them under the broiler until the cheese has melted. Mix the cooked chorizo into the warmed soup and serve it with the cheesy corn chips.

Nutrition (per serving)

Sodium1272500 mg

Recipe details

CategoryOne Dish Meal
AuthorTishT