Spicy Corn And Tomato Soup

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, pressed
• 1 stalk celery, chopped
• 1 grated orange, juice and zest of
• 1/2-1 teaspoon tabasco sauce or 1/2-1 teaspoon other hot pepper sauce, to taste
• 2 lbs ripe plum tomatoes, chopped
• 8 ounces chorizo sausage, sliced
• 1 (13 ounce) can creamed corn
• 4 ounces corn chips
• 2 ounces sharp cheddar cheese

Recipe

• 1 heat oil in sauce pan.
• 2 add onion and cook, stirring until soft.
• 3 stir in garlic and celery and cook, stirring, until celery is soft.
• 4 add orange zest and juice, tabasco and tomatoes and simmer covered 20 minutes while soup is simmering, cook sausage in ungreased frying pan until lightly browned.
• 5 drain blend or process tomato mixture until finely chopped.
• 6 stir in corn, return to pan and heat through just before serving, spread corn chips in broiler pan.
• 7 sprinkle with cheese and place under broiler just until cheese melts stir chorizo into soup and serve with corn chips.