Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, new england clam chowder. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
A real New England Clam Chowder NEVER thickens with flour or cornstarch. That will change the flavor and texture completely. Light cream and freshly ground pepper are added to the hot chowder just before adding the clams.
New England Clam Chowder is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. New England Clam Chowder is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook new england clam chowder using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make New England Clam Chowder:
- Get 10 strips bacon
- Get 2 tablespoon butter
- Make ready 2 stalks celery chopped
- Make ready 1 leek fine chopped
- Prepare 1 onion finely chopped
- Prepare 3 cloves garlic minced
- Prepare 4 small russet potatoes peeled and diced
- Make ready 1 cup chicken broth
- Get 8 0z bottle clam juice
- Take 1 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 1 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- Take 1 tablespoon fresh thyme chopped
- Take 1/3 cup flour
- Get 2 cups half & half
- Prepare 20 oz canned whole clams drained *give or take based on can
- Make ready leaf Bay
- Make ready Chopped green onion or chives for garnish
Strain the liquid from the pot through a mesh strainer lined with a coffee filter and reserve. Using fresh clams makes the best New England Clam Chowder and it doesn't take long to make. In a world where most clam chowders would be more aptly named "clam flavored potato soup", finding a morsel of clam is like winning a Toyota Camry. This lightened-up New England Clam Chowder recipe is made with milk instead of heavy cream.
Instructions to make New England Clam Chowder:
- In a Dutch oven, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. ** I baked mine on a baking sheet in a 350 degree oven until crispy and transferred drippings to pot
- Remove bacon to paper towels to drain; set aside. Add butter to the drippings (you can spoon out some of the drippings if you don’t want to ues that much); saute celery, leek, and onion until tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in the potatoes, broth, clam juice, salt, pepper and thyme. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 15-20 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
- In a small bowl, combine flour and 1 cup half-and-half until smooth. Gradually stir into the soup. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 1-2 minutes or until thickened.
- Stir in (drained) clams and remaining half-and-half; heat through (do not boil); turn down to low heat; add the bay leaf. Cook for additional 2-3 minutes on low heat. Add in 5 strips of crumbled bacon.
- Crumble the reserved strips of bacon. Garnish chowder with crumbled bacon and fresh chopped chives.
Yet it's just as rich, creamy, hearty and delicious a clam chowder soup as ever. The early New England clam chowders were usually made with fish and it wasn't until the last hundred years or so that the clam, and other shellfish, took By the way, if you like your chowder on the thicker side you can mash some of the cooked potatoes into the soup before finishing the chowder. Channel New England with this rich and warming one-pot clam chowder. This New England clam chowder is delicious! Tender clams and potatoes are combined in a creamy broth flavored with clam juice and cream, and a Jack has very strong opinions about what makes a good New England clam chowder.
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