Recipe of Flavorful New England Clam Chowder

Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, new england clam chowder. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

New England Clam Chowder is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. New England Clam Chowder is something which I have loved my entire life.

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

The ingredients needed to make New England Clam Chowder:

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