The Kilted Chef’s Seafood & Bacon Chowder
One of the best ways to enjoy local seafood? In a chowder! With chunks of seafood and potatoes in every bite, this Atlantic Canada Seafood & Bacon Chowder from the Kilted Chef will fulfill all your chowder and seafood needs.
Ingredients
Serves: 4-6
| 2 tbs | butter |
| 4 | slices smoked bacon, diced |
| 1 | small onion, diced |
| 3 | green onions, chopped |
| 1 | rib of celery, diced |
| 1/2 | red pepper, finely diced |
| 1 | medium carrot, diced |
| 1 cup | corn niblets (fresh or frozen) |
| 1 | jalapeno seeded and chopped |
| 1/4 cup | flour |
| 2 | green onions, chopped |
| 1 tsp | salt |
| 1/2 tsp | black pepper |
| 4 cups | lobster broth |
| 2 lbs | seafood of your choice, cut into bite-sized pieces |
| 24 | baby potatoes halved and parboiled until fork tender |
| 2 tbsp | fresh dill chopped |
| 1 1/2 cup | heavy cream |
Directions
- Melt the butter in a heavy bottom pot then sauté the bacon till rendered. Add the onions, celery, carrots, corn, and jalapeno and sauté until the vegetables begin to soften.
- Add the flour and stir for 2 to 3 minutes so that no raw flour will remain.
- Stir in the green onions, salt, pepper and lobster broth, scraping up any brown bits on the bottom.
- Once the broth has come to a slow boil turn down to a high simmer and add the seafood of choice, cook for 10 to 12 minutes allowing the seafood to poach.
- Gently stir in the potatoes, the dill, and the cream. Warm through. Serve with fresh dill on top.