Chicken & sweetcorn soup

Name: Chicken & sweetcorn soup
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 13 min
Total time: 18 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 2 tsp. sunflower oil; 1 1/2 cm ginger, grated; 1 clove garlic, crushed; 1 tbsp. cornflour; 500 mL chicken stock; 1 tsp. soy sauce; 1 tsp. sesame oil; 100 g sweetcorn; 100 g cooked chicken, shredded; 1 egg; Spring onions and red chillies, sliced, to garnish

By Karen WilliamsPublished: 15 December 2023

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Hannah Hall

This Chinese-inspired chicken and sweetcorn soup can be on the table in less than 20 minutes. For those days you require a warming bowl of something, but you want minimal effort, in steps this steaming bowl of goodness.

This style of soup hails from the Southwestern regions of China and requires very few ingredients, and gets all of its flavour from garlic, ginger, chilli and soy sauce. What gives this soup its creamy consistency however is the addition of egg. By slowly adding the egg into the broth-like mixture, you're creating gorgeous eggy strands.

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Yields:

Prep Time:

5 mins

Cook Time:

13 mins

Total Time:

18 mins

Ingredients

2 tsp. sunflower oil
1 1/2 cm ginger, grated
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 Tbsp. cornflour
500 ml chicken stock
1 tsp. soy sauce
1 tsp. sesame oil
100 g sweetcorn
100 g cooked chicken, shredded
1 egg
Spring onions and red chillies, sliced, to garnish

Directions

1. Step 1Heat oil in a pan and gently fry the ginger and garlic for 2 mins.
2. Step 2Mix the cornflour with 1 tbsp water and mix into the chicken stock. Add this to the pan along with the soy, sesame oil and sweetcorn. Stir well and bring to the boil.
3. Step 3Lower the heat, add the chicken, and simmer for 10 mins, stirring often.
4. Step 4Mix the egg white with 1 tbsp water to loosen. Trickle the egg into the soup, swirling with a fork to produce ‘eggy’ strands.
5. Step 5Season with salt and pepper and divide between two bowls. Garnish with spring onion and chilli.

Karen Williams

Karen Williams is a Leith's trained recipe developer and shoot assistant, with years of experience working on magazine and food video shoots. Karen loves trying out new ways to create easy dishes and is especially good at gorgeous one-pots and makes a mean brownie!

When Karen isn't developing recipes for Delish UK, you might find her helping out on one of Good Housekeeping's cookery school courses, or drinking wine at her house in France.

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