Suam na Mais Recipe

Suam na mais is a type of chicken and corn soup that originated from the province of Pampanga in the Philippines. It’s quite different from the usual corn soup as it uses chili pepper leaves which gives it that unique peppery taste, having said some recipes call for malungay leaves, sweet potato greens or spinach. Traditional version also calls for the white kernel corn variety which is creamier and stickier in consistency.

Those ingredients are hard to find here specially the white corn so we will improvise by using normal corn kernels and use spinach leaves instead. If you want to get the full flavour of the traditional version I suggest using fresh corn as well as chili leaves which you can find in the frozen section of your…