Recipe – Chicken & Sweet Corn Soup

This is my version of the classic Cantonese chicken and sweet corn soup found on every suburban Chinese restaurant menu. I add egg noodles to create a simple one pot dish, but you could leave them out to make an entrée for 8 people. You might have chicken stock in the freezer from making Steeped Chicken; or you could poach a whole free-range chicken from Eugowra Game Birds (poultry supplier to top restaurants who also home delivers) to make the stock and shred all the meat for the soup. See Saw Wines Incubator SAMM is a great wine match. This sauv blanc/marsanne blend is the winery’s first foray into skin contact wines – organic fruit, wild fermented, carbonically macerated with lots of lees stirring, it has great mouthfeel and body while still being light enough for the soup’s delicate flavours.

Serves 4

Ingredients

• 2 cobs corn
  
• 2 litres chicken stock
  
• ⅓ cup Shaoxing rice wine
  
• 2 teaspoons finely grated ginger
  
• 500g chicken thigh fillets, thinly sliced
  
• 200g dried egg noodles
  
• 4 green onions, finely sliced
  
• 2 teaspoons sesame oil
  
• 2 tablespoons arrowroot, made into a paste with 2 tablespoons water
  
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
  
• Salt flakes and freshly ground white pepper, to taste

Method

1. Slice the corn kernels off the cobs and chop roughly.
   
2. Place corn kernels in a saucepan with chicken stock, Shaoxing and ginger.
   
3. Bring to the boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer for 5 minutes.
   
4. Add chicken and noodles, return to the boil, reduce heat and simmer for a further 4 minutes.
   
5. Add green onion, sesame oil and arrowroot paste, increase heat and stir until soup boils and thickens slightly.
   
6. Reduce heat and drizzle in egg, stirring slowly so that it forms thin ribbons through the soup.
   
7. Remove from heat, taste, add salt and pepper and serve.  

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