Basic Chicken Chowder

11 ingredients
5 steps

Ingredients

  • 3 slices bacon (ready-to-serve Oscar Meyer bacon is handy for this!)
  • 1 (4 ounce) can mushrooms, pre-sliced & drained
  • 12 medium yellow onion, chopped
  • 18 teaspoon ground thyme
  • 1 (10 ounce) can cream of celery soup (can substitute 98% fat free version)
  • 10 ounces water (1 soup can's worth)
  • 1 (10 ounce) can condensed chicken vegetable soup (can substitute low sodium version)
  • 1 (8 ounce) can whole kernel corn (Del Monte preferred)
  • 0.5 (8 ounce) can low-sodium tomatoes, chopped
  • 1 12 cups cooked chicken breasts, diced
  • black pepper, to taste

Directions

  1. 1
    In a dutch oven, cook the bacon until crispy; remove, drain on paper towel and crumble.
  2. 2
    Reserve 2 tbsp of the fat in the dutch oven and drain off the rest.
  3. 3
    In the reserved fat, in the dutch oven, saute the mushrooms, onions and thyme until the onion is translucent/tender.
  4. 4
    Return the bacon to the dutch oven and add all the other ingredients and pepper to taste.
  5. 5
    Heat until piping hot and serve.

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