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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have mike's new england clam chowder & homemade croutons using 17 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Mike's New England Clam Chowder & Homemade Croutons:
- Make ready 1 (28 oz) Can Baby Clams [reserve all juices]
- Prepare 28 oz Chicken Broth
- Prepare 1 Cup Heavy Cream
- Take 1 1/2 Cups Celery [chopped with leaves]
- Make ready 1 1/2 Cups White Onion [chopped]
- Take 3 Cups Potatoes [peeled and chopped]
- Get 2 Garlic Cloves [fine chop]
- Take 1/2 tsp Dried Thyme
- Get 1/2 tsp Old Bay Seasoning
- Make ready 1 tsp Crushed Saffron Threads
- Prepare Salt & Black Pepper [to taste]
- Make ready 2 Bay Leaves [pull leaves after simmer]
- Take 2 tablespoons Butter
- Make ready Fresh Parsley [as needed for garnish]
- Get 1 Baguette Loaf [+ 2 tbs butter - dash garlic oil or powder - parsley]
- Take 3 tablespoons AP Flour
- Get 2 tbs Corn Starch & Water [for thickener - optional]
Make a soup base (starting with a traditional roux), steam the chowder clams to make a clam liquid and marry the two in a. Manhattan is going head-to-head with New England in this clam chowder cook-off. Chef Mike Price of New York City's The Clam restaurant and cookbook author Annie B. Stir in water and potatoes, and season with salt and pepper.
Instructions to make Mike's New England Clam Chowder & Homemade Croutons:
- Here's what you'll need. Flour and Saffron not pictured.
- Fine chop your vegetables. Add butter, onions, celery, garlic, thyme, black pepper, salt, bay leaves and Old Bay to your pot. Stir well and simmer for 10 minutes until vegetables are slightly translucent. Stir regularly. You don't want to burn your garlic.
- Add your flour and stir well and often for 5 minutes. You're burning out that flour taste.
- Drain your clams and reserve all fluids. Set clams to the side.
- Add all fluids to your pot.
Peel and chop potatoes into 1/2" cubes. Place them in pot. You're peeling and chopping your potatoes last since they will brown unless soaked in water.
- Simmer for 20 minutes or, until your potatoes have softened.
Add salt and pepper to taste.
- At this point you'll have the option to thicken your chowder. You'll do it at this point exactly since as the potatoes soften, they will thicken the broth.
To thicken: Add 2 tablespoons Corn Starch to 1 tablespoon water in a small bowl and mix well. Slowly add your starch mixture and allow pot to simmer back up. It'll thicken up quickly. Add additional starch to thicken more. I usually add the full 2 tablespoons but it's your call.
- Add your clams, stir and simmer 1 minute. No longer or you'll have extremely chewy clams.
Pull pot from heat source and cover.
- For the croutons:
Slice baguette bread into 1" cubes.
Add 2 tablespoons butter and a dash of garlic oil or, couple dashes of garlic powder a pan and heat.
Place croutons in heated butter. Fry for 3 minutes or, until crispy and coated.
Fine chop parsley and add to pan. Mix quickly and well.
Drain croutons on paper towels. Serve immediately.1. 1.
- Garnish bowl with fresh parsley and place your croutons on top. Enjoy!
- Feel free to garnish with fresh clams as well. Just steam clams in a slight amount of water until they open. Discard any that don't open.
New England clam chowder normally contains clams, potatoes, onions, salted pork and milk or cream. The addition of dairy is considered the biggest difference from other chowders. Be sure to check out our other wickedly good New England recipes! Homemade clam chowder is one of those recipes that every New Englander with a stove and even a mild interest in cooking should master. Fortunately, it's one of the easiest dishes to make.
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