Ingredients to make Delicious Clam Chowder:
- 1 kg of clams washed and drained
- 100 g of liquid cream with 18% fat
- 150 gr of onion cut into quarters
- 100 gr of diced bacon
- 2 thinly sliced celery stalks
- 1 tablespoon of cornstarch
- 300 grams of milk
- 1 leek, thinly sliced
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 sprigs fresh thyme (leaves only)
- 2 potatoes (approximately 400 gr) diced
- 500 grams of water
- 20 grams of butter
- 1 pinch of freshly ground pepper
- 1 teaspoon salt
- crackers to accompany
How to make Delicious Clam Chowder:
- We start by putting the clams in a bowl, cover them with cold water and add one or two tablespoons of salt.
- We leave them like this submerged for an hour so that they release all the sand. Drain them in the basket and rinse them with warm water.
- Meanwhile, we put the onion in the glass and program 6 sec / vel 4, we reserve it in a bowl.
- Then, pour the water into the glass and introduce the basket with the drained clams.
- We program 13 min/100º/speed 4. We use the notch of the spatula to extract the basket
- Strain the liquid from the glass through a fine strainer covered with a cotton filter or kitchen paper and reserve it.
- We remove the bodies of the clams from their shells and reserve them covered with a little cooking liquid.
- With the glass clean and dry, put the butter and bacon and program 6 min/Varoma/vel 1.
- We place the butterfly on the blades and add the onion that we had reserved, the celery and the leek.
- We program 6 min / Varoma / vel 1.
- Add the bay leaf, the thyme leaves, the potatoes, the salt and the reserved broth from cooking the clams.
- We program 15 min/100º/vel 1. We incorporate the cornstarch dissolved in a little of the milk and the rest of the milk. We program 5 min/100º/speed 1.
- Add the liquid cream and program 1 min/100º/speed 1. Remove the butterfly.
- Add the clams and pepper and stir with the spatula.
- We serve immediately accompanied by the crackers.
