Easy and Delicious Clam Chowder
Recipe: #12482
May 02, 2014
Categories: One-Pot Meal, Fathers Day, Game/Sports Day, Sunday Dinner, Gluten-Free, Low Carbohydrate, No Eggs, Wine, Clams, more
"A KC favorite! "This is such an easy recipe for clam chowder but really big on flavor! You can use more than two 5-ounce cans for this recipe if desired! Serving size is only estimated."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (351.5 g)
- Calories 350.2
- Total Fat - 20.9 g
- Saturated Fat - 10.9 g
- Cholesterol - 77.7 mg
- Sodium - 703.5 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 21.3 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.5 g
- Sugars - 8.9 g
- Protein - 18.2 g
- Calcium - 248.5 mg
- Iron - 2.1 mg
- Vitamin C - 9.5 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Ia heavy-bottomed pot brown the bacon, then add in onions, celery, thyme, bay leaf and garlic (if using); saute for about 3 minutes.
Step 2
Add in wine, whipping cream, whole milk and the juice from the clams (save the clams to add in the end). Add in the grated potato; bring to a slow simmer and cook for about 20 minutes until the grated potato softens and releases the starches and thickens the chowder base.
Step 3
Add in the reserved clam meat, evaporated milk and chopped parsley; bring to JUST a simmer and remove from heat.
Step 4
Season with salt and lots of black pepper.
Tips
No special items needed.