Velvet Corn Soup With Crab And Ham

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons  unsalted butter
  • 1 tablespoon  vegetable oil
  • 4   large shallots, minced
  •   Salt
  • 10   ears of corn, shucked and kernels cut from the cobs
  • 1 teaspoon  minced fresh ginger
  • 1/4 cup  dry white wine
  • 3 cups  plus 2 tablespoons chicken stock or low-sodium broth
  • 6   paper-thin slices of country ham or prosciutto, cut into thin strips
  • 2   large eggs
  • 2   scallions, thinly sliced
  • 6 ounces  lump crabmeat, picked over
  •   Chile oil, for drizzling

Description

"Every Chinese-American Restaurant Used To Serve This Soup," Andrea Reusing Says. "It's A Very 1970s Thing To Me." While Many Versions Are Thickened With Cornstarch, She Adds An Egg To Enhance Its Custardy Texture.

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