Recipe of Delicious New England Clam Chowder

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my 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. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first 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 bacon
2. Make ready butter
3. Take celery chopped
4. Prepare leek fine chopped
5. Prepare onion finely chopped
6. Get garlic minced
7. Prepare small russet potatoes peeled and diced
8. Make ready chicken broth
9. Prepare 0z bottle clam juice
10. Take salt
11. Get fresh ground black pepper
12. Get fresh thyme chopped
13. Take flour
14. Prepare half & half
15. Get canned whole clams drained *give or take based on can
16. Make ready Bay
17. Get Chopped green onion or chives for garnish

Steps 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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