Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, seafood chowder. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Seafood Chowder is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Seafood Chowder is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have seafood chowder using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Seafood Chowder:
- Prepare 8 bacon slices
- Get 8 green onions minced - reserve green part and set aside
- Make ready 2 Tbs thyme
- Make ready 2 whole garlic's minced
- Get 4 Tbs flour
- Take 5 cups milk (I used nonfat)
- Make ready 2 1/2 cups chicken stock
- Prepare 2 bay leaves
- Take 2 lbs raw shrimp in shell
- Make ready 4 lobster tails
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 1 tsp pepper
- Take 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes (I used 2 tsp because I like it spicy)
- Get 24 oz frozen corn
- Prepare 2 cans crab meat (I used Blue Star)
Steps to make Seafood Chowder:
- In a stock pot, cook bacon. Remove bacon when finished and set aside.
- Sauteed green onion, thyme and garlic in bacon reserves for about 3-5 minutes.
- Stir in flour, milk chicken stock and bay leaves. Continue stirring for about 1 minute.
- 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.
- Remove shrimp and lobster tails when cooked and turn stovetop to low.
- Remove shrimp and lobster from shells. Chop lobster into pieces then add both back to pot.
- 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.
- You can adjust the seasonings to your taste and add more flour for thickness.
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