Chicken and corn chowder.

Yesterday's dinner was an easy to make, but very yummy chowder.
The things you need:
-3 chicken thighs
-2 slices of bacon (optional)
-2 large bell peppers
-2 medium tomatoes
-2 sticks of celery
-2 large spring onions
-1 medium carrot
-1 large can of sweetcorn
-5 medium potatoes
-2 small chilies (or 1 large)
a bunch of fresh parsley
-2l water
-salt

Put the chicken into the pot with cold water and get that going, meanwhile chop up all the vegetables bar the potatoes into small pieces, like so.


By the time you're done chopping, the chicken should have boiled up and you've had time to skim all the nasty off of it. When this is done, put all of the chopped up vegetables into the pot, add a little bit of salt, stir, let it boil up again, then reduce to simmer, cover and leave for about 40-45 minutes.

While the vegetables cook, peel and chop the potatoes into small cubes and chop the fresh parsley (not too fine). At the end of the 45 minutes, add the potatoes and the parsley to the soup and cook until the potatoes are cooked through.

Fry the bacon until crispy, crunch it up small, dish up the soup and garnish with the bacon.


P.S. You might feel tempted to skip on the chilies, if you don't like spicy things, but trust me on this, don't. Just de-seed them properly and it won't be hot at all! They add a certain extra to the soup, so keep them in.

Enjoy!