I recently joined The Soup Club at my new company, Liquorice Africa, where I’ve started working as a copywriter. The club is only active during winter and once a week, one member brings a soup to work, enough for the whole club to enjoy. I decided to make a Chinese cream corn soup.

Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to cook and take rad photos – see why here. So the picture on this post comes from here.

Chinese cream corn soup, warm, creamy and filling, is ideal for cold and windy nights. This recipe uses canned cream corn, I usually purchase the KOO Cream-style Corn – it’s even better to make your own, but using canned cream corn will decrease your cooking time to a mere 10 minutes. I used to love making this when I was a student.

This recipe makes five servings, (warning: 1 person never has 1 serving only.)

Ingredients:

• 1 tsp sunflower oil
• 1 salad spring onion (finely sliced)
• 1 can creamed corn
• 3 mielies/corn cobs (cut kernels off)
• 1 Tbsp corn flour/Maizena
• 1 1/2 can of cold water (simply fill water into creamed corn can after use)
• 1 1/2 Tbsp sugar
• 2 tsp salt (add to taste)
• 3 pinches of white pepper
• 2 eggs, well beaten
• fresh coriander to sprinkle

• In the soup pot to be, fry 1/2 the sliced spring onion with olive oil, till lightly browned.
• Add the creamed corn.
• Add the fresh kernels cut from mielies.
• Use the empty can to add 1 can of water to pot.
• Allow the soup to boil.
• Add 1/2 can of water mixed with corn flour.
• Slowly add to soup, while stirring – this will thicken the soup.
• Add sugar, salt and white pepper.
• Mix the eggs in a separate container (I usually use a measuring jug for easy pouring).
• While stirring the soup in one direction, slowly pour the egg liquid in one spot and it’ll poach automatically
• Serve hot!