Dirty Corn Soup

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup butter
• 2 (11 ounce) cans white shoepeg corn (drain but reserve liquid)
• 1/2 cup sweet onion, diced and drained
• 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 pinch ground nutmeg
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 6 tablespoons flour
• 4 cups whole milk

Recipe

• 1 melt 1/4 cup butter in 2 qt skillet, while peeling and dicing onion.
• 2 drain corn and reserve liquid.
• 3 add nuts and onions to skillet, cook on medium and stir for 30 seconds; add corn and saute, allowing brown particles to form.
• 4 stir the particles from the bottom of pan, and continue to brown for 5 minutes, but do not burn.
• 5 add salt and pepper (now it should look dirty).
• 6 in the pan, move aside the corn mixture, making room for the remaining butter and flour, browning the flour in the butter and eventually stir into corn mixture when browned.
• 7 add reserved corn liquid reserve and slowly add milk, one cup at a time, thickening after each addition.
• 8 *ifmultiplying this recipe, use a larger pan and add a bit more time for browining.