Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, new england clam chowder. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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 current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. New England Clam Chowder is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook new england clam chowder using 15 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make New England Clam Chowder:
- Prepare 4-6 ounces bacon, diced
- Take 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- Take 1 cup chopped onions
- Take 4-6 tablespoons flour
- Prepare to taste Fresh ground black pepper
- Take to taste Thyme
- Get 5 cups cooked diced potatoes
- Take 1 quart half and half
- Make ready 1 cup chicken broth (made from knorr homestyle stock)
- Make ready 3 (6 1/2 oz) cans minced clams or 3 (6 1/2 ounce) cans chopped clams
- Get 1 cup clam juice
- Make ready Chopped Italian parsley
- Get to taste Fresh lemon juice
- Get Hot pepper sauce
- Make ready Salt
Channel New England with this rich and warming one-pot clam chowder. This New England Clam Chowder recipe gets bumped up several flavor notches and will have you coming back for seconds! 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. 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.
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
This New England Clam Chowder is the absolute best! This easy clam chowder recipe makes perfect comfort food for a cold night. Made with bacon, plenty of potatoes, and with just the right amount of cream, you will be a chowder master with my instructions for how to make clam chowder. If the chowder is too thick, thin down with some milk. This lightened-up New England Clam Chowder recipe is made with milk instead of heavy cream.
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