Name: Chilled Corn Soup with Crab and Chile Oil
Yield: Makes 4 cups
Ingredients: 6 ears fresh corn, shucked and desilked; 2 cups cold whole milk; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 3/4 teaspoon black pepper; 2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives; 1 (6-oz) frozen king crab leg, thawed; 4 teaspoons Asian chile oil

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Chilled Corn Soup with Crab and Chile OilRomulo Yanes

Active time: 20 min Start to finish: 35 min

We recommend you use only fresh local corn when making this soup. The supersweet corn on the cob sold in plastic-wrapped packages in supermarkets yields an unpleasantly sweet soup. To make this soup vegetarian, simply omit the king crab.

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