Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, new england clam chowder. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

New England Clam Chowder is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. New England Clam Chowder is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook new england clam chowder using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make New England Clam Chowder:

1. Take bacon
2. Get butter
3. Make ready celery chopped
4. Take leek fine chopped
5. Prepare onion finely chopped
6. Take garlic minced
7. Prepare small russet potatoes peeled and diced
8. Get chicken broth
9. Make ready 0z bottle clam juice
10. Prepare salt
11. Take fresh ground black pepper
12. Take fresh thyme chopped
13. Get flour
14. Take half & half
15. Get canned whole clams drained *give or take based on can
16. Take Bay
17. Prepare Chopped green onion or chives for garnish

Steps to make New England Clam Chowder:

1. In a Dutch oven, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. ** I baked mine on a baking sheet in a 350 degree oven until crispy and transferred drippings to pot
2. Remove bacon to paper towels to drain; set aside. Add butter to the drippings (you can spoon out some of the drippings if you don’t want to ues that much); saute celery, leek, and onion until tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in the potatoes, broth, clam juice, salt, pepper and thyme. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 15-20 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
3. In a small bowl, combine flour and 1 cup half-and-half until smooth. Gradually stir into the soup. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 1-2 minutes or until thickened.
4. Stir in (drained) clams and remaining half-and-half; heat through (do not boil); turn down to low heat; add the bay leaf. Cook for additional 2-3 minutes on low heat. Add in 5 strips of crumbled bacon.
5. Crumble the reserved strips of bacon. Garnish chowder with crumbled bacon and fresh chopped chives.

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