Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, new england clam chowder. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
New England Clam Chowder is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. New England Clam Chowder is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
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 get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have new england clam chowder using 15 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make New England Clam Chowder:
- Make ready 4-6 ounces bacon, diced
- Prepare 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- Prepare 1 cup chopped onions
- Get 4-6 tablespoons flour
- Get to taste Fresh ground black pepper
- Make ready to taste Thyme
- Make ready 5 cups cooked diced potatoes
- Prepare 1 quart half and half
- Prepare 1 cup chicken broth (made from knorr homestyle stock)
- Prepare 3 (6 1/2 oz) cans minced clams or 3 (6 1/2 ounce) cans chopped clams
- Take 1 cup clam juice
- Take Chopped Italian parsley
- Take to taste Fresh lemon juice
- Take Hot pepper sauce
- Make ready 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:
- Fry bacon until crisp
- Remove bacon, set aside to be used later
- Add butter to bacon grease, when melted add onions and saute until golden
- Stir in flour and cook over low heat 5 minutes, stirring constantly
- Stir in pepper and thyme
- Add chicken broth, half and half, and potatoes
- Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer, stirring frequently, about 5 minutes. (Be careful and watch that it doesn't cook above a simmer or very long!)
- Add clams, clam juice, parsley; simmer another 5 minutes; stirring occasionally.
- Add lemon juice, pepper sauce, and salt to taste
- Serve with oyster crackers
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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