Clam Chowder: cooking options

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Clam chowder soup is a traditional American dish made with seafood, cream, potatoes, onions and smoked lard. There are many variations of this dish. In different regions of the United States, soup is prepared in different ways. The variants of the dish are described in sections of the article.

New England cooking method

Clam chowder is a dish whose variations, although slightly different, still have common features. The composition of all varieties of soup includes seafood or fish, broth, vegetables, herbs and various additives. In Manhattan, they put tomatoes in this dish, in North Carolina - chili peppers. The New England variety of soup suggests the presence of cream in its composition.

Clam Chowder requires the following ingredients:

1. A glass of seafood mix.
2. Fifty grams of smoked bacon.
3. Two potato tubers.
4. Onion.
5. Half a carrot.
6. Three glasses of fish broth.
7. Two hundred and fifty grams of cream.
8. Two tablespoons of flour.
9. Forty grams of butter.
10. Parsley.
11. Pepper.
12. S alt.

Carrots and onions are peeled, cut into small pieces. The frozen seafood mixture is dipped into boiling water. Boil for five minutes. Drain water. Smoked bacon and potatoes are cut into squares. Put the butter in a frying pan and melt. Fry onions and carrots on it for two minutes. Then smoked lard and potatoes are added. Fry for four minutes, stirring occasionally. Then flour is added. Stir a few more times to remove lumps. Place the mixture in a deep saucepan. Add warm broth and wait until the mass boils. Then cover the pan with a lid, continue to cook the soup over low heat for ten minutes. When the potatoes are ready, cream and seafood are added to the mass. S alt and pepper, mix. Sprinkle finely chopped parsley. Cover with a lid. Then you need to boil again, remove the pot from the heat. New England clam chowder ready.

Soup in a bread bowl

This is an original and nutritious version of the dish. This section of the article is devoted to cooking soup in a clam chowder bread "plate" - with a recipe with a photo.

In order to make this dish, you need the following products:

1. Smoked lard
2. Onion.
3. A clove of garlic.
4. Green onion.
5. Four hundred grams of chicken broth.
6. One carrot.
7. Four hundred milliliters of water.
8. Four potato tubers.
9. Crackers.
10. Spicy herbs.
11. Four hundred and fifty grams of cod.
12. Concentrated milk (three hundred and ten grams).
13. S alt and pepper to taste.
14. Bulka.

Cut all vegetables and herbs, as well as smoked lard. Grind cracker.

Fry smoked lard in fat until golden brown. Place on paper towel. Fry the whole onion in the remaining fat, add carrots, warm broth and hot water. Then add potatoes, s alt, cracker, pepper and garlic. Mix all ingredients, add lard and thyme. Cook in a saucepan until potatoes soften. Add cod fillet. Cook a little more. Add milk. When the mixture boils, it can be removed from the heat. Trim off some of the crust from the top of the bun. Take out the bread pulp. Warm the resulting "plates" in the oven for five minutes. Pour warm soup into them. The dish is ready.

Salmon clam chowder soup

This recipe includes the following:

1. Seafood mix (three hundred grams).
2. Salmon (one hundred and fifty grams).
3. Two potato tubers.
4. One bulb.
5. Half a carrot.
6. Celery (one piece).
7. Three cups of fish broth.
8. Two hundred and fifty grams of cream.
9. Two tablespoons of flour.
10. Fifty grams of butter.
11. Green.
12. Pepper.
13. S alt.

Chop carrots, onions and celery, fry in butter. Add s alt and potatoes. Simmer for five minutes. Add flour and mix all ingredients. Then pour in the fish broth and put the pieces of salmon. The mixture is boiled until the potatoes soften. Add cream, seafood. When the mixture boils, it must be boiled over low heat for five minutes. S alt and pepper. Sprinkle with herbs.

Seafood and tomato soup

For this version of the clam chowder, you need the following products:

1. A glass of seafood mix.
2. Four slices of smoked bacon.
3. Tomatoes.
4. Onion.
5. One carrot.
6. Two potato tubers.
7. Fifty grams of celery.
8. Glass of broth.
9. Greens, spices, s alt (to taste).
10. Glass of water.

Smoked lard is fried in the bowl in which the soup is prepared. Put the finished pieces in a separate container. Onions, carrots and celery are peeled and finely chopped. Fry in lard with tomatoes for five minutes, pour in the broth and add seasonings. The resulting mixture is boiled in a saucepan for half an hour over low heat.

The potatoes are cut into squares. Boil in another saucepan until cooked, then drain the water. Potatoes and seafood should be added to other ingredients. Sprinkle the mass with s alt and pepper. Add smoked lard, herbs, mix. Cover the pot with a lid.

Clam Chowder Soup: White Wine Recipe

To prepare this dish you will need the following ingredients:

1. Two handfuls of clam meat.
2. Four pieces of smoked bacon.
3. Glassdry white wine.
4. Two stalks of celery.
5. Glass of cream.
6. Two potato tubers.
7. Onion.
8. A clove of garlic.
9. One carrot.
10. Bouillon.

Smoked lard thinly sliced. Fry in a bowl with thick walls. Add chopped garlic, onion, celery, a glass of wine and shellfish. Finely chop the greens. Cut potatoes into cubes and add to mixture. Add broth, herbs and cream. Boil the soup until the potatoes are ready. Add s alt, pepper. Remove from heat, cover and leave on the stove for ten minutes. Sprinkle with carrots and herbs before serving.

Conclusions

Clam chowder is a traditional American soup. It is prepared from seafood, vegetables and herbs. There are many variations of this dish. Some recipes use chicken broth, others use fish broth. There are options for dishes with the addition of cod, tomatoes, cream, salmon. Some people add white wine to the soup.

Clam chowder is traditionally made with fresh seafood. But since it is not always possible to buy them in Russia, many people use frozen or canned ones.