Make restaurant-quality corn chowder with your handy dandy slow cooker! This recipe uses fire-roasted corn, bacon, and heavy cream; what can be better?

Sometimes you need something heartier than soup for dinner; that’s why we love a good chowder! Try my Slow Cooker Clam Chowder or my Slow Cooker Leftover Turkey Chowder next!

Why this recipe works

Making corn chowder doesn’t need to be complicated! Just add a few ingredients to your slow cooker for the BEST and EASIEST corn chowder you will ever have. The slow cooker will soften the vegetables, and while it simmers all day, the flavors meld together.

Recipe Ingredients

• Corn – To make this recipe special, use canned fire-roasted corn! You can find this at most supermarkets.
• Other vegetables – Peeled russet potatoes, onion, shallots and cayenne peppers. If you can’t find the cayenne peppers, use 1/4 cup poblano peppers or one red bell pepper.
• Vegetable Broth – This is the liquid for the soup, you can use water if desired.
• Seasonings – I use salt, black pepper and paprika. The paprika not only adds flavor it makes the soup a pretty color.
• Heavy Cream – This will make the soup creamy and decadent, wait to add the cream until the end of the cooking time.
• Bacon – Bacon goes wonderful with corn and cream, so naturally you’ll see bacon in corn chowder recipes.

Step-by-Step Directions

Step One – Add the vegetables. , seasonings, HALF of the cooked bacon, to the slow cooker.

Step Two – Add the chicken broth, Stir. WAIT TO ADD THE CREAM. Cook on LOW for 7 hours or HIGH for 4 hours without opening the lid during the cooking time, for that will let out heat and slow the cooking process.

Step Three – After the cooking time is done, add the heavy cream and cook for 30 more minutes on LOW.

Step Four – Serve with the remaining bacon, you can put it on top of each bowl or stir into the finished soup.

Variations

• Less Spicy – Instead of adding hot chile peppers, use 1 sweet red bell pepper.
• Creamed Corn – Use one can of creamed corn in place of the whole kernel corn for a big punch of corn flavor.
• Mexican Style – Add a can of black beans and a can of rotel tomoates for Mexican corn chowder.

How to serve

• Serve with saltine crackers.
• Top with cheese and freshly ground black pepper
• Cornbread is a wonderful side for chowder.

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• Slow Cooker Steak and Potato Soup
• Slow Cooker Bloody Mary Soup
• Slow Cooker Cauliflower Cheese Soup
• Slow Cooker Stuffed Pepper Soup – Recipe by Eating on a Dime
• Slow Cooker Ham and Green Bean Chowder
• Slow Cooker Zuppa Toscana
• Slow Cooker Cheeseburger Soup
• Slow Cooker Vegetable Soup – Recipe by Diethood