Mexican Street Cereal Soup

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
  1. 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. 
  2. 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.
  3. Use tongs to remove callosity cobs from pot and remove.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.