How to Prepare Perfect Seafood Chowder

Seafood Chowder. Heat the oil in a stainless-steel saucepan and brown the bacon well until it is crisp and golden. Add the onion, cover and sweat for a few minutes over a low heat. Begin by making the roux - this is a simple paste which you will add to the chowder at a later stage to thicken it.

When the mixture thins and starts to bubble, reduce the heat to low and whisk slowly. Add the fish stock, potatoes and milk and season well. Add the cayenne pepper and the parsley. You can cook Seafood Chowder using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Seafood Chowder

1. It's 8 of bacon slices.
2. You need 8 of green onions minced - reserve green part and set aside.
3. It's 2 Tbs of thyme.
4. It's 2 of whole garlic's minced.
5. You need 4 Tbs of flour.
6. You need 5 cups of milk (I used nonfat).
7. You need 2 1/2 cups of chicken stock.
8. Prepare 2 of bay leaves.
9. You need 2 lbs of raw shrimp in shell.
10. You need 4 of lobster tails.
11. It's 1 tsp of salt.
12. Prepare 1 tsp of pepper.
13. You need 1/2 tsp of red pepper flakes (I used 2 tsp because I like it spicy).
14. Prepare 24 oz of frozen corn.
15. You need 2 cans of crab meat (I used Blue Star).

Hence a Galway seafood chowder recipe may be very different to a Dingle seafood chowder recipe or even a Donegal seafood chowder recipe. The recipe will follow the fish, but they all taste great and are all super creamy. Just make sure the fish is the kind with nice meaty type flesh, like haddock or salmon that does not need lots of cooking until it falls apart. Heat up the oil and butter in a saucepan.

Seafood Chowder instructions

1. In a stock pot, cook bacon. Remove bacon when finished and set aside..
2. Sauteed green onion, thyme and garlic in bacon reserves for about 3-5 minutes..
3. Stir in flour, milk chicken stock and bay leaves. Continue stirring for about 1 minute..
4. On medium low heat, add shrimp and lobster tails. Cook for about 15 minutes or until shrimp is done. Try not to overcook the seafood..
5. Remove shrimp and lobster tails when cooked and turn stovetop to low..
6. Remove shrimp and lobster from shells. Chop lobster into pieces then add both back to pot..
7. Add salt, pepper, pepper flakes, crab meat and corn. Cook for another 5 minutes on medium low then add bacon bits and the green part of onions..
8. You can adjust the seasonings to your taste and add more flour for thickness..

Pop in the onion, carrot, potato and dill. Mix in soup, green onions, carrots, corn with liquid, potatoes, parsley, and remaining milk. Make it with sweetcorn and smoked haddock in Nigel Slater's easy recipe, or add clams and prawns. Add fish and shellfish and cook,. These will be used to thicken the soup.