Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make 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 popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. New England Clam Chowder is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

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 prepare a few components. You can have new england clam chowder using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make New England Clam Chowder:

1. Make ready 10 strips bacon
2. Make ready 2 tablespoon butter
3. Take 2 stalks celery chopped
4. Make ready 1 leek fine chopped
5. Take 1 onion finely chopped
6. Make ready 3 cloves garlic minced
7. Get 4 small russet potatoes peeled and diced
8. Make ready 1 cup chicken broth
9. Make ready 8 0z bottle clam juice
10. Prepare 1 teaspoon salt
11. Make ready 1 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
12. Prepare 1 tablespoon fresh thyme chopped
13. Get 1/3 cup flour
14. Take 2 cups half & half
15. Make ready 20 oz canned whole clams drained *give or take based on can
16. Get leaf Bay
17. Take Chopped green onion or chives for garnish

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. Creamy, hearty New England clam chowder is by far the most popular chowder style (compared to Manhattan or Rhode Island versions). Many versions use a flour and. This lightened-up New England Clam Chowder recipe is made with milk instead of heavy cream.

Steps to make New England Clam Chowder:

1. 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
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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. 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. New England Clam Chowder is hearty, thick, creamy and loaded with tender clams, creamy potatoes and salty, smoky bacon in a rich flavor bursting broth!

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