This clam chowder can be a main course soup.
It is one of our easy dinner recipes and just needs a side salad and a roll to become a delicious lunch or light supper recipe.
I think you will love the rich, creamy taste.
There are two types of clam chowder recipes. This recipe is a New England clam chowder, which contains cream. It is the chowder we most often think of.
The other type of chowder is called “Manhattan” and uses tomatoes instead of cream.
Clam chowder is pretty easy to make and cooks up quickly. It’s one of those recipes that you can decide to make 30 minutes before dinner and get it on the table.
The recipe calls for 18% cream. You can certainly make it with a lighter cream. It just won’t taste as rich as it does when you use real cream.
I think you will really like this recipe.
It will make you feel like you are on the shores of a Martha’s Vineyard beach. Eating it takes me back to my time in Cape Cod where hot steamy bowls of this wonderful chowder were available pretty much everywhere. I was in heaven.
Clam Chowder
Ingredients
- 2 onions, large
- 3 tablespoons butter, diced, or 3 slices bacon
- 2 potatoes, medium
- 2 cups vegetable broth, or water
- 1 bay leaf
- 1/4 teaspoon thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 stalk celery, with leaves
- 2 cups clams, meat only, coarsely diced or 2 cans clams
- 4 cups 18% cream
- 1/4 teaspoon white pepper
- paprika or pepper
Instructions
- Peel the onions and sauté them in butter, or with the bacon, on medium-low heat for about 15 to 20 minutes, until they are golden but not brown. Cube the potatoes and add them to the onions. Sauté 10 minutes, stirring often so the potatoes don't stick. Add the water, bay leaf, thyme, and salt. Chop the celery and add it.
- Simmer 10 minutes, uncovered, until almost all the water has boiled away. Add the clams with their liquid, cream and pepper and bring back to the boil. Remove from heat. Sprinkle generously with paprika or more pepper and serve.
Nutrition
Variations:
- Use fresh shucked oysters instead of clams, and turn this into oyster stew.
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If you prefer a tomato based Manhattan clam chowder, you will find that recipe here.
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