Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, new england clam chowder. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

New England Clam Chowder is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. New England Clam Chowder is something that I have loved my entire life.

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

The ingredients needed to make New England Clam Chowder:

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

Instructions 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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