Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, mike's stacked seafood chowder. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mike's Stacked Seafood Chowder is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Mike's Stacked Seafood Chowder is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook mike's stacked seafood chowder using 32 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mike's Stacked Seafood Chowder:
- Take 8 Cups Seafood Stock [made with all shells & strained x2]
- Get ☆ [note: you may not need all of your seafood stock]
- Take 1/2 Cup Quality White Wine
- Take 2 Bay Leaves
- Get ● For The Seafood [all fine chopped & presteamed]
- Make ready ☆ [note: reserve all shells for seafood stock]
- Make ready 1 Cup Shreadded Snow Crab Legs [look closely for any shells]
- Make ready 1/2 Cup Crawdad Tails [optional but consider them]
- Take 1 LG Lobster Tail
- Make ready 1 Cup Shrimp
- Prepare 1 Cup Clams
- Get ● For The Chowder [sauté hard veggies in 4 tbsp butter]
- Get 2 Cups Heavy Cream
- Prepare 1/2 Cup Diced Celery [to be sautéd]
- Make ready 1/2 Cup Diced Vidalia Onions [to be sautéd]
- Get 3 Cups Diced Potatoes [parboiled]
- Make ready 1/4 Cup Fresh Green Onions
- Take 1 Dash Saffron Threads
- Get 1 tbsp Fine Minced Garlic
- Take 1/4 Cup Fresh Chopped Parsley
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Fresh Thyme
- Take 1 tsp Old Bay Seasoning
- Prepare 1/2 tsp White Pepper
- Get 1 tbsp Fresh Ground Black Pepper
- Take 4 tbsp Butter & 1/4 Cup AP Flour
- Make ready ● For The Options [to taste]
- Take Chopped Carrots
- Take Sweet Corn
- Get ● For The Sides [as needed]
- Get Dry Sherry [to drizzle over chowder]
- Get Fresh Warm Crispy French Bread
- Get Seasoned Croutons
Steps to make Mike's Stacked Seafood Chowder:
- Various cold seafoods pictured.
- Steamed whole crawdads pictured.
- Pull all of your crab, lobster, crawdads, clams and shrimp meat from shells and reserve all shells.
- Create your seafood stock by boiling shells, wine and bay leaves for 15 minutes on high. Make enough for 8 cups. You may not need all stock depending upon how thick or thin you'll want your chowder. Strain your stock twice in a fine mesh strainer or cheese cloth
- At the same time, parboil your potatoes for 7 to 10 minutes to soften them before adding to your chowder. It's a real time saver. Small chop.
- Again, at the same time in a seperate pan, sauté your onions and celery in butter until translucent. About 2 to 3 minutes. Then, add flour and mix well until dissolved.
- Simmer chowder for 30 minutes. Stir regularly.
- Add your seafood to your chowder in the last 5 minutes of simmering.
- Serve chowder piping hot with crispy warm French bread for dipping and seasoned croutons. Also, Sherry to drizzle over the top if desired.
- Or, crispy garlic crustinins.
- Enjoy!
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