Basic Chicken Chowder

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 3 slices bacon (ready-to-serve oscar meyer bacon is handy for this!)
• 1 (4 ounce) can mushrooms, pre-sliced & drained
• 1/2 medium yellow onion, chopped
• 1/8 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 1/2 cups cooked chicken breasts, diced
• black pepper, to taste

Recipe

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