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Spicy Crab and Corn Chowder Recipe
by Kymberlee Coyle

Spicy Crab and Corn Chowder

I adapted this recipe after years of making cream of crab soup and becoming increasingly bored by it and looking for a way to make it better and this incredible soup was born! It's sooooo yummy! NOT for calorie counters!

Rating: 4/5
Avg. 4/5 1 vote
Prep time: Seafood
Cook time: Servings: 8 bowls

Ingredients

  • 1 lb butter
  • 1 med onion, diced
  • 3 stalks celery
  • diced
  • 1 tsp to 1 tbsp hot sauce, depends how spicy you like it
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 1 Tbsp Old Bay or any seafood seasoning
  • 2 tsp black pepper, i prefer fresh ground
  • 1 quart of seafood stock (u can use chicken if you cant find seafood)
  • 2 medium potatoes, diced small like the onions
  • 1 15 oz can corn
  • 2 quarts half and half
  • 1 lb. lump or jumbo lump crabmeat

Directions

  1. Melt butter in medium stock pot
  2. Saute onions and celery until soft
  3. add in hot sauce, Old Bay and black pepper
  4. sprinkle in flour and whisk in. Cook out for about 2 minutes.
  5. Add seafood stock, potatoes, corn and half and half.
  6. Simmer until thickened.
  7. Gently fold in crabmeat and serve.
  8. Note: If you prefer your chowder thicker, whisk in a slurry of cold water and cornstarch to almost boiling soup.