Best Red Clam Chowder Recipes

RHODE ISLAND RED CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• Pour clam juice, and the juice from the canned clams into a large pot. Bring to a boil. Add onion, carrots, and potatoes; and simmer over medium heat for 15 minutes, or until tender. Stir in the tomato soup and tomato sauce, and season with parsley and black pepper. Add clams last, and cook just until heated through.

RED LOBSTER CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a soup pot, melt butter over medium heat.
• Add onion, celery, leeks and garlic and saute for 3 minutes mixing often.
• Remove from the heat and add the flour, mixing well.
• Add milk and whisk vigorously.
• Drain clams and add juice to soup.
• Slowly bring to a boil, stirring often.
• Reduce heat to a simmer and add potatoes and seasonings; simmer 10 minutes.
• Add clams and simmer 5-8 minutes.
• Finish with heavy cream.

ALLANA'S ZESTY RED CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• Place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain, crumble and set aside.
• In a large saucepan over medium heat, place the vegetable oil, onion, carrots and celery. Slowly cook and stir 5 minutes, or until the vegetables are tender. Mix in the bacon, potato, clam juice, tomatoes, tomato sauce, white pepper, seasoning salt, parsley, marjoram, garlic powder, thyme, mustard, Cajun seasoning and hot pepper sauce. Reduce heat and simmer until the potato is tender, about 20 minutes.
• Mix in the clams and shrimp. Cook approximately 5 minutes more and serve.

RED CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients except clams, salt and cayenne in slow cooker; cover and cook on high 4-5 hours, adding clams during last 30 minutes.
• Discard bay leaf; season to taste with salt and cayenne.

GARRISON'S RED CLAM CHOWDER (A CHUNKY STEW)

Steps:

• 1. Open the 51 oz can of clams. Strain, reserving 2 cups of clam juice. Refrigerate the drained clams until ready to add to the stew. Set the juice aside (reserve until later). Any excess juice can be frozen for later use.
• 2. In a large pot, add the tomatoes and their juices, tomato sauce, halved onion, halved garlic head, red pepper flakes, olive oil and bay leaf. Bring to a boiling point over med/hi heat. Reduce heat and simmer (uncovered) on the lowest heat for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Stir occasionally.
• 3. After reduction, fish out the bay leaf, garlic, and onion, and discard. Add the reserved 2 cups of clam juice and the clam base. (Clam Base) is found at a commercial type store like Smart and Final. Bring to boiling point again and simmer (uncovered) on the lowest burner for 30 minutes more.
• 4. At this point, you can cool the tomato base for your chowder and assemble the next day...or you can proceed by adding the strained clams and basil. Heat just until steam point and serve with hearty bread or garlic toast.

RED LOBSTER NEW ENGLAND CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• 1. Combine water and liquid drained from all 3 cans of clams in a large saucepan. Stir in flour, parsley, salt, pepper, bay leaf and thyme. Turn to medium heat.
• 2. When water begins to bubble, add the potatoes and simmer for 5 minutes. Stir often to keep the potatoes from sticking to the bottom of the pan.
• 3. Add the clams to the saucepan and simmer for 10 minutes, stirring often.
• 4. Add the cream and simmer for an additional 5 minutes. Watch the pan carefully to be sure the chowder doesn't bubble over. Turn down the heat if the soup begins to erupt. Remove and discard bay leaf.

NEW YORK RED CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a 4-quart saucepan over med-high heat.
• Add in onion; cook/stir until begins to soften, 2-3 minutes.
• Stir in the potatoes, tomatoes, wine, water, and thyme; season with salt and pepper to taste.
• Bring to a boil; decrease heat to med-low; partially cover saucepan, and simmer until the potatoes are tender when pierced with a sharp knife, about 20 minutes.
• Add in the clams and cook 10 minutes; add parsley and serve.

RED AND WHITE CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• Cut the onion, carrot, celery and green pepper in large pieces. In a food processor fitted with a steel blade chop the vegetables finely.
• In a small soup pot brown the bacon lightly for 3 minutes. Add the butter and cook for 2 minutes more over low heat.
• Scrape the chopped vegetables into the pot with a rubber spatula and reassemble the processor. Saute the vegetables for 5 minutes over low heat.
• Sprinkle in the flour and cook the roux stirring for 3 minutes.
• Pour the reserved clam liquor in a 4-cup measure and add water or clam nectar to equal 1 1/4 cup. Pour into the pot and mix with the roux.
• Stir in the milk and potatoes and simmer over low heat covered for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Pulse the tomatoes (I pinch off the stem end and remove any extraneous peel) with their juice and the clams in the processor for 5 seconds.
• Pour the tomato-clam mixture in the pot and simmer covered over low heat for 15 minutes, stirring frequently.
• Off heat, add the Worcestershire, thyme, Tabasco, salt (I use about 3/4 teaspoon) and pepper to taste.
• Let the soup rest about 15 min off heat before serving.