Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, new england clam chowder. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
New England Clam Chowder is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. New England Clam Chowder is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
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.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have new england clam chowder using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make New England Clam Chowder:
- Get 4 slices bacon
- Make ready 2 Tbsp butter
- Get 2 celery ribs
- Get 1 large carrot
- Get 2 leeks, white and light green
- Prepare 2 russet potatoes
- Make ready 1 ear sweet corn
- Make ready 2 (8 oz) bottles clam juice
- Make ready 3 (6.5 oz) cans chopped clams
- Prepare 3 Tbsp flour
- Get 1 cup heavy cream
- Prepare 1 tsp chopped fresh thyme
- Make ready 2 Tbsp chopped fresh parsley
- Prepare 2 bay leaves
- Prepare to taste black pepper, cayenne pepper and salt
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. This lightened-up New England Clam Chowder recipe is made with milk instead of heavy cream. Yet it's just as rich, creamy, hearty and delicious a clam chowder soup as ever. This New England Clam Chowder recipe gets bumped up several flavor notches and will have you coming back for seconds!
Steps to make New England Clam Chowder:
- Cut root and dark green from leeks. Cut in half lengthwise and thinly slice. Add to large bowl of cold water. Swish around to clean out the dirt and sand. Remove from water with slotted spoon.
- Chop celery and carrot into fine dice. Cut corn from cob. Peel and chop potatoes into small 1/2" dice. Put potatoes in cold water until ready to use.
- Add bacon to pot and cook on med-low until crisp. Remove for later garnish and save drippings in pot.
- To the bacon grease add butter, leeks, carrots and celery. Cook until soft - about 10 minutes.
- Add flour and cook 1-2 minutes. Add clam juice and liquid from strained clams. Turn heat to medium and bring to boil.
- Add potatoes, corn, bay leaves, thyme, parsley, black pepper and cayenne pepper. I did not add salt because the bacon, clam juice and clams had sufficient salt. Taste and add salt if needed.
- When potatoes are fork tender, turn heat back to med-low. Add clams and heavy cream. Heat 5-10 minutes. Remove bay leaves before serving.
- Serve with reserved bacon for garnish. Enjoy!
Today, New England Clam Chowder is still served at Ye Olde Union Oyster House in Boston, the nation's oldest continuously operating restaurant, where it has been on. First time making Clam Chowder I don't have anything bad to say about this recipe as it is my first time making clam chowder. I tried using real clams but the grocery store by my house was out of fresh clams so I went canned. 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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