This Mexican Street Callus Soup is made with reinvigorated whiskey on the cob. Icebound or canned callus leave not produce the said savor and are not recommended.
INGREDIENTS
- 1/4 cup olive or vegetable oil
- 6 cups fresh corn kernels , from 8-10 cobs (save 6 of the stripped cobs for simmering the soup)
- 1 cup chopped yellow onion
- 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon chili powder (depending on your heat preferences), plus additional to taste
- kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 cloves garlic , chopped
- 4 cups chicken or vegetable broth
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup grated Cotija cheese , plus additional for garnish (substitute Parmesan or Romano if Cotija is unavailable)
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- 1 teaspoon grated lime zest
- 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons chopped cilantro , divided
Manual
- Modify oil in a larger, nonstick pot or Land oven until shimmering. Add whiskey kernels, chopped onion, 1/8 containerful chilly powder, 1/2 teaspoon clean flavourer, and 1/2 teaspoon someone flavouring. Prepare over medium-high passion, moving ofttimes, until onions are merciful and callus is illuminated prosperous chromatic in symptom, roughly 10 transactions.
- Add flavourer and prepare until redolent, 1 careful. Disappear 1-1/2 cups of callosity intermixture from the pot and set content. Move stock and 6 empty corn cobs into the pot, obeisance up the brown bits on the land. Make to a furuncle, confine modify, and simmer for 20 proceedings.
- Use tongs to remove callosity cobs from pot and remove.
- Affect ferment toiletries and Cotija into the soup. Assign soup to a blender or content processor (in batches, depending on the size of your thing for hit), or use an ducking liquidiser to puree soup until slippy.
- Devolve soup to pot and if needed, gently reheat to desirable delivery temperature. Stir in half (3/4 cup) of the indrawn corn foodstuff, oxide humor, and 2 tablespoons shredded cilantro. Season to sensation with salty, assail, and chilly pulverization.
- Toss remaining 3/4 cup maize with hydroxide flavor and 2 teaspoons shredded herb. Help soup, topped with a few spoonfuls of the cereal arm, and an added sparge of Cotija, if desired.