Spicy crab and sweetcorn chowder with avocado
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Easy
- Serves 6
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- olive oil
- 1 onionfinely chopped
- 450g potatopeeled and cut into little cubes
- 1.5 litres chicken stock
- 4 spring onions2 halved and 2 finely sliced
- a few stalks and a handful leaves corianderroughly chopped
- ½ stick celerycut into thin batons
- 2 × 340g tins sweetcorndrained
- 2 tins white crab meatdrained
- 2 avocadosthickly sliced
- 1-2 red chillithinly sliced
- 170ml tub soured cream
- 2 limecut into wedges
- kcal497
- fat23.6g
- carbs41.8g
- fibre6g
- protein31g
- salt1.4g
Method
step 1
Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a large saucepan. Tip in the onions and cook for 8 minutes or until soft. Add the potatoes and cook for 3 minutes more. Pour over the stock.
step 2
Tie the halved spring onions, coriander stalks and celery into a little bundle with some cooking string. Drop this into the saucepan and simmer for 15 minutes, or until the potatoes are tender.
step 3
Remove the bundle and add the sweetcorn and crab meat. Stir and heat through. season and then add chopped coriander. Spoon into bowls and add the sliced avocado, shredded chilli, a dollop of soured cream and some sliced spring onions. Serve with a squeeze of lime.