A delicious, hearty One Pot Corn and Crab Chowder can turn a rainy cold day from drab to fab. Chopping up a few vegetables and throwing some good quality ingredients into a pot is all it takes to make a tasty homemade soup that’ll leave your belly full. It’ll have your hubby going back for seconds. Plus, this soup is better for you than high sodium canned soup and tastes MUCH better!

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A tasty, homemade One Pot Corn and Crab Chowder is the perfect comfort food on cold, rainy days! Save money by making your own, fresh soup!

One Pot Corn & Crab Chowder

Homemade Soup is Comfort Food

Ugh! Another cold, windy, rainy day here in the Northeast! You need comfort food on a rainy day. This is one of the few things I do not like about living in the north…consecutive days without sun. Can you relate? But, having a nice homemade bowl of soup helps perk up my winter blues. When is spring coming?

This corn chowder with crab is comfort food by definition. It embodies the flavors we like to eat in the winter- bacon, potatoes, and corn. Well, bacon we like to eat all year, along with the potatoes and corn but, it is especially nice combination in the cold winter months when paired with sweet crab.

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Plus, making a one pot soup lessens clean up, that’s for sure! This recipe makes a big pot of soup. You’ll get about 12 servings.

One Pot Corn & Crab Chowder

How to Make One Pot Corn and Crab Chowder

*The full, printable recipe is at the bottom of this post in the recipe card.

First, cook the chopped bacon in a big non-stick

You will spoil your family with homemade soup. It’s hard to go back to canned soup after having a tasty homemade soup.

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Summer corn takes this corn and crab chowder soup to the next level. If you have any summer corn in your freezer, add it instead of canned or frozen corn.

I once made this soup with fresh lump crab that I cooked and peeled myself instead of using the canned crab meat and it was incredibly good! You can also use a pint of heavy cream instead of half milk and half cream, but I just couldn’t bare all of those extra calories and fat. You decide!

When you need comfort food on a rainy day, this soup hits the spot every time. It’s a tasty alternative to low-quality mushy, over-salted, canned soup. Warm up this winter with delicious homemade One Pot Corn and Crab Chowder soup!

I took this recipe to Weekend Potluck.

One Pot Crab and Corn Chowder

One Pot Crab and Corn Chowder is absolutely delicious! This creamy soup is filled with flavor and very filling for those long, cold winter days.

Course Soup

Cuisine American

Keyword one pot crab and corn chowder

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 45

Total Time 1

Servings servings

Calories 370cal

Author Joanne Schweitzer

Ingredients

6 slices bacon, diced
16 oz lump crab meat
4 tbsp butter
8 oz heavy cream
8 oz whole milk
1/2 cup flour
4 large potatoes, peeled and diced
1 large onion, diced
4 celery ribs, diced
6 cups chicken stock
2 14 oz canned whole kernel corn, drained
1 bay leaf
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp dried Thyme
freshly cracked black pepper to taste

Instructions

First, in a large stock pot on med/high heat, cook bacon for 3 min. Don't drain the fat. Add butter, onions, celery, corn, potatoes and seasonings. Stir often until the potatoes start to get tender- about 10 min.
then, add flour and stir until vegetables are coated and continue stirring for a minute.
Next, add chicken stock and stir well. Let simmer for 20 minutes, covered on medium heat.
Then, add crab meat, milk and heavy cream and stir until well combined. Cook for 15 minutes covered. Remove bay leaf before serving.

Notes