Slow Cooker Creamy Chicken Corn Soup

Creamy Chicken & Corn Soup Details

Texture: This creamy chicken soup has plenty of hearty, satisfying texture from chicken and sweet potatoes. You’ll also enjoy plenty of corn in each spoonful. All of these wonderful chunks of vegetables and chicken sit in a light creamy broth made from chicken broth, whole milk, and cornstarch. Flavor: We love a flavor-packed dish and this creamy chicken & corn soup recipe delivers big. You’ll enjoy smoky bacon, cream-style corn, sweet potatoes, savory thyme, plus plenty of black pepper all stewed together in the slow cooker. The soup is a celebration of sweet, savory, and creamy flavors and finished with a lift of fresh parsley. Ease: The soup begins with browning bacon and then moves on to soup-starter basics like onions, garlic, carrots, and celery. These are cooked on the stove, but that’s the only “work” you’ll have to do. You then throw everything else right into the slow cooker except for the milk and cornstarch (see recipe directions below). Are you cooking this during the day while you’re at work? You can prep the veggies on the stove the night before. Time: This is a slow-cooked soup that takes about 8 hours.

This is a soup recipe that requires little effort, yet delivers so much flavor. If this appeals to you (little prep, big results!), you’ll also appreciate our minestrone soup, slow cooker chicken chili, and sweet potato turkey chili recipes.

Choosing the Right Ingredients

Bacon: While you certainly could skip the bacon if needed, you’d miss out on a lot of the soup’s outstanding flavor. Celery, carrots, onion, and sweet potatoes: These vegetables add flavor, bulk, and texture. Thyme: With its subtle hints of earthy floral notes, thyme is an essential flavor enhancer in this soup. Whole milk: To keep things on the lighter side, we use and recommend 1 and 1/2 cups of whole milk, but you could easily replace it with half-and-half for a thicker soup. You could also combine 1 cup whole milk with 1/2 cup heavy cream. Cornstarch: It’s used as a thickener here, so do not skip this ingredient.

Overview: How to Make Creamy Chicken & Corn Soup in the Slow Cooker

The full printable recipe is below, but let’s walk through it so you understand each step before you get started. Serve in bread bowls or with artisan bread, biscuits, dinner rolls, breadsticks, or asiago-crusted skillet bread.