Chicken Chowder With Chipotle Recipes

Steps:

• In a 6-quart heavy pot, cook onions in oil over moderate heat, stirring until softened.
• Add diced potato, garlic, and jalapeño and cook stirring, 1 minute.
• Stir in flour, and cook over moderately low heat, stirring about 2 minutes.
• Whisk in 2 cups broth and half and half and bring to a boil while stirring.
• Add tomatoes, corn, parsley, chipotle, and chicken and simmer, stirring occasionally, about 20 minutes, or until vegetables are tender.
• Add remaining broth, if needed, to get the liquid consistency you want.
• Add salt and pepper, to taste.
• NOTE: The original recipe called for Monterey Jack cheese, and although I love cheese, I just didn't like it with this recipe, but if you want to try it with cheese, enjoy!

Steps:

• Remove 1 chili and 1 teaspoon adobo sauce from can; reserving remaining chiles and sauce for another use.
• Finely chop chili and set chile and sauce aside separately.
• Heat oil in large Dutch oven over medium heat.
• Add chopped chile, onion, and next 6 ingredients (through garlic); cook 7 minutes or until onion is tender, stirring frequently.
• Stir in broth and bring to a boil.
• Add chicken; cover, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer 30 minutes or until chicken is tender.
• Remove chicken with a slotted spoon and cool slightly.
• Shred chicken with 2 forks then cover to keep warm.
• Remove pan from heat; let stand 5 minutes.
• Place 1/3 of broth mixture in a blender and process until smooth.
• Pour pureed broth mixture into a large bowl.
• Repeat procedure in 2 more batches with remaining broth mixture.
• Return pureed broth mixture to pan.
• Stir in potatoes and hominy; bring to a simmer over medium heat.
• Cook, uncovered, 20 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
• Stir in chicken and cream; simmer 5 minutes.
• Remove from heat and stir in reserved adobo sauce, tomato, cilantro and salt.
• Serve with lime wedges.

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat; cook and stir carrot, celery, onion, and garlic into hot butter until slightly softened, about 2 minutes. Stir flour into mixture to make a paste; cook until lightly browned and flour gives off a slightly toasted smell, about 5 minutes. Watch carefully, flour burns easily. Remove saucepan from heat and set aside to cool, about 15 minutes.
• Stir white and yellow corn, potatoes, chicken, and 3 cups of chicken stock in a large soup pot over medium heat. Whisk remaining 1 cup chicken stock into vegetables and flour mixture until thoroughly combined. Stir mixture into ingredients in soup pot. Bring to a simmer, stirring constantly, until thick, about 5 minutes.
• Stir half-and-half, nutmeg, salt, and black pepper into chowder. Bring back to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer until potatoes are tender, about 20 minutes.