New England Clam Chowder
New England Clam Chowder

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, new england clam chowder. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have new england clam chowder using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

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

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