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How To Make Clam Chowder

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How To Make Clam Chowder
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Clam Chowder Recipe. A very tasty, thick and filling soup. Experience our Clam Chowder recipe. Enlarge Clam Chowder Recipe. A very tasty, thick and filling soup. Experience our Clam Chowder recipe.
Serves:
4
Preparation Time:
15 minutes
Cooking Time:
40 minutes
Total Time:
55 minutes

Step 1: You will need...

  • for the broth:
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 4 bacon rashers, chopped
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 2 garlic cloves, chopped
  • 6 sprigs fresh thyme
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 20 clams, well cleaned
  • the juice of 1/2 a lemon
  • 120 ml white wine
  • 700 ml water
  • to complete the recipe:
  • 2 tbsp butter
  • 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 4 bacon rashers, chopped
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • 1 tbsp fresh thyme, chopped
  • 55 g flour
  • 480 ml double cream
  • 2 potatoes, peeled & diced
  • 40 clams, well cleaned
  • salt and pepper
  • chopped parsley, to garnish
  • 2 large saucepans with lids
  • 1 wooden spoon
  • 1 strainer
  • 1 large bowl
  • 1 chopping board
  • 1 knife
  • 1 ladle

Step 2: Prepare the broth

In one of the saucepans, add the olive oil and place it over a moderate heat. When the oil is slightly hot, add the bacon and stir lightly. Sauté until the bacon starts to brown.

Add the onion, garlic, thyme and the bay leaf and cook, stirring, for about 5 minutes or until the onions become translucent.

Add the remaining ingredients - clams, lemon juice, white wine and water. Stir well and bring to a low boil.

Step 3: Cook the broth

Keep the heat on low, cover the saucepan and leave to cook for about 10 minutes.

Step 4: Remove the clams and strain the broth

When the clams have opened, remove them from the saucepan and place onto a tray. Strain the broth into a large bowl ready to use later on. Take the clams out of the shell, chop them in half and set to one side.

Step 5: Heat the butter and oil

Put the olive oil and butter into the second saucepan and place it over a moderate heat. Add the bacon, onion, garlic and thyme and cook for about 3 minutes or until the onions soften, stirring constantly.

Dust the flour over the ingredients and stir to coat. Pour in the clam broth and bring to a boil, stirring continuously.

Step 6: Add the cream and potatoes

Put the potatoes and double cream into the pan and increase the heat slightly. The broth needs to break into a hard boil. Stir at all times. Leave to boil for another 10 minutes or until the potatoes are cooked.

Add the chopped clams to the pan, stir well and season with salt and pepper. Add the shelled clams and stir again. Cover the pan and simmer for about 10 minutes so the clams open. Adjust the seasoning to taste.

Step 7: Serve

Sprinkle in the parsley to garnish and stir. Serve while the soup is steaming hot.
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  1. sandy17

    been cooking for more years that I want to mention - however tasting and leaving spoon back in pot is not acceptable. spoiled recipe for me

  2. studentoflife

    Regrettably or not, people taste food as they are cooking it. How else do you get it right? Hopefully most use a separate spoon, once only. If one's lips have touched a spoon that goes back into the dish they are preparing, it seems pretty safe to me if the dish continues to cook at boiling temperatures. . . . . . And moving clams are a good thing. They should be alive before being cooked because they spoil so quickly once dead. I understand how uncomfortable it is to have to deal with living creatures which need to be cooked. During WWII, my family raised chickens in order to have any meat at all. My father hated killing them. He would always grit his teeth and mutter, "There would be a lot more vegetarians if everybody had to kill their own food."

  3. lmacatol

    Aww come on. Are you serious? Every cook has done that.(tasting the food). Like the other anonymous guy said. "Don't eat out if you can't stand someone double dipping!" because chances are, they did... Other than that... this looks delicious! :)

  4. tinkerbellaflirt

    omg freak out at 1:02 the clam move omg ewwwwwwww to fresh that creepy

  5. Anonymous

    Whats with the spoon dipping? Otherwise it is excellent soup

  6. Anonymous

    Whats with the spoon dipping?

  7. Anonymous

    Don't eat out if you can't stand someone double dipping!

  8. Anonymous

    Awesome recipe it has come out great 3 times and like previsouly stated... Do not spread your cooties to others by double dipping the mixing spoon

  9. Anonymous

    oh come on!

  10. Belle

    Same here! Why on earth did he put the spoon back in the saucepan - it put me right off!