Abuela Gloria’s Colombian Chicken, Corn and Potato Soup

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Preparation info
  • Feeds

    6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Grand Dishes: Time-perfected recipes and stories from grandmothers of the world

By Iska Lupton and Anastasia Miari

Published 2021

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Ingredients

  • 1 celery stick, cut into large chunks
  • 4 garlic cloves, 2 kept whole and 2 chopped

Method

  1. Start by making the stock for the base of the soup: put the chopped celery, garlic, red and white onion chunks, carrots, red pepper and green ends of the spring onions into a pressure cooker or saucepan large enough to hold the veg and your chicken. Add one corncob (for extra corn flavour, says Gloria), the coriander stalks and chicken. Pour in enough water to cover, the