Creepy Chicken Chowder For Halloween

This is a scrumptious Halloween-themed meal. Serve it in a hollowed-out pumpkin for a really spooktacular dish.

Ingredients (serves 10 | makes 1 pumpkin full 10)

1 whole Pumpkin, top sliced off and hollowed out leaving 2 cm pumpkin inside
500g Ingham's Chicken breast - diced, fresh breast fillet or shredded whole chicken
4 Bacon rashers, diced
1 Onion, diced
2 Garlic cloves, crushed
3 White potato, cubed
2 sticks Celery, diced
1 cup Corn - fresh or frozen kernels
2 tbs Fresh chives or parsley and chopped
2 tbs Butter
3 tbs Flour, plain or gluten free
1 cup Milk
1 cup Sour Cream
3 cups Chicken stock
Salt & peppper Season to taste
To serve Chunks of fresh bread, dippers or bread sticks

Method

Preheat oven to 170C.
Heat the butter in a large pot. Add the onion, garlic and celery to pot and sauté on a medium heat until cooked. Add in bacon and chicken, continuing to cook through. Add in flour and cook off for 2-3 minutes.
Slowly pour in chicken stock and stir to ensure mixture does not clump. Pour in milk and stir to combine.
Add the cubed potatoes, season with salt, and allow to simmer for about 5 minutes, continuing to stir. Do not boil. Add in peas and corn, continue to cook for 3 minutes.
Chop the top of the pumpkin off near the rim with enough space to hollow out and de-seed the pumpkin. Leave 2 cm of pumpkin inside. Pour the chowder mixture into the pumpkin. Place the pumpkin lid back on and bake in the oven for 15 minutes. If you want to eat the pumpkin, continue to cook until pumpkin is soft. You can also cook this in the slow cooker - follow the same process as for the oven and cook on low heat for 3 - 4 hours.
Serve with fresh chives, cracked pepper, fresh bread or bread sticks. Enjoy!

47 Comments

- - mom7108 said
  - 27 Nov 2018
    8:50 pm
I have never had chowder before, it sounds very nice

- - mom241861 said
  - 14 Nov 2018
    9:11 pm
Love this Creepy Chicken Chowder that my girlfriend tried for Halloween it was amazing. Thank you.

- - mom74005 said
  - 12 Nov 2018
    1:43 pm
i don’t think I have ever had chowder. Sounds like I may have to give it a whirl.

- - jessm2290 said
  - 07 Nov 2018
    9:36 am
I have never made chowder! I will have to give this a crack

- - natct said
  - 06 Nov 2018
    2:15 pm
Not a big fan of pumpkin but that looks great. Maybe I can try with crusty rolls.

- - cherz said
  - 05 Nov 2018
    6:46 pm
Not my type of food but I must say the presentation is awesome.

- - boo-boo said
  - 04 Nov 2018
    9:16 pm
I love chowder. Looks like a great recipe to try.

- - mom62624 said
  - 04 Nov 2018
    4:00 pm
Looks amazing, thanks for sharing.

- - curlytops said
  - 03 Nov 2018
    2:34 am
It looks really cool. Love it!

- - mom112217 said
  - 01 Nov 2018
    2:53 pm
Your chicken chowder sound’s absolutely delicious!

- - Stef said
  - 01 Nov 2018
    2:40 pm
This is so creative! Looks absolutely scrumptious!

- - rachelvk said
  - 01 Nov 2018
    2:08 pm
This looks awesome. The kids would love this!

- - sapphy said
  - 31 Oct 2018
    11:04 pm
This is a go to recipe for halloween to counteract all those lollies healthy and warming with a great pumpkin eatable bowl.

- - mom81879 said
  - 30 Oct 2018
    5:02 pm
I’m loving the edible bowl, great way to reduce washing up

- - ella12 said
  - 30 Oct 2018
    12:09 pm
Wow, this looks and sounds amazing, mmm.

- - Ellen said
  - 29 Oct 2018
    7:30 am
Nice idea, I would make it a vegetarian version.

- - Cookfromscratchmum said
  - 28 Oct 2018
    2:42 pm
I love it perfect for Halloween ????
- kjgarner replied
  
  30 Oct 2018 , 11:14 pm
  Halloween Entrée sounds great to me.
- - mom297125 said
  - 27 Oct 2018
    10:25 pm
Spooky chowder. Not a fan but thanks for sharing

- - mom63821 said
  - 26 Oct 2018
    11:12 am
this is great i love chicken chowder, don’t love the idea of seafood.

- - taynik46 said
  - 26 Oct 2018
    9:22 am
I love this – what a great idea for Halloween – the soup sounds so tasty too – thank you for sharing your creation 🙂