Danielle’s Seafood Chowder

Description

I wanted to serve a different dish from the usual seafood casserole so I played with the dish and came up with this.

Ingredients

  • ⅓ cup butter
  • 1 teaspoon olive oil
  • 1 onion, minced
  • ⅓ cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 quart half-and-half, or as needed
  • 2 cups bar clams, drained with juice reserved
  • ⅓ cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
  • 2 potatoes, cubed
  • 2 cups cream-style corn
  • 1 large ear corn, kernels cut from the cob
  • 1 cup sliced cherry tomatoes
  • 1 ½ cups water, or as needed
  • sea salt and coarsely ground black pepper to taste
  • 1 fresh haddock fillet, cut into 1-inch pieces
  • 2 cups large shrimp, peeled and deveined
  • 1 cup canned lobster meat, with juice

Instructions

  1. Melt butter with olive oil in a large pot over medium-low heat; stir in onion and sauté until translucent
  2. about 5 minutes. Whisk flour into butter mixture; whisk in half-and-half and juice from drained clams.
  3. Stir Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese into onion mixture until melted
  4. about 2 minutes; stir in potatoes
  5. cream-style corn
  6. corn kernels
  7. and cherry tomatoes. If soup is very thick
  8. stir in water
  9. about 1/2 cup at a time
  10. as desired; bring soup to a simmer and cook until potatoes are tender
  11. about 15 minutes. Season with sea salt and pepper.
  12. Stir drained clams
  13. haddock
  14. and shrimp into soup; simmer until haddock and shrimp are fully cooked for 5 minutes. Stir in lobster and its juice; cook just until heated through.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 30 mins

Total Time: 50 mins

Servings: 8

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