Seafood chowder is a classic dish that combines the flavors of the sea with creamy, hearty broth. This article will guide you through the process of creating the best seafood chowder, as well as providing a recipe for delicious seasoned oyster crackers to accompany it. From choosing the freshest seafood ingredients to selecting the right seasonings, we'll cover everything you need to know to make a chowder that will delight your taste buds.
Here are our top 10 tried and tested recipes!
SEAFOOD CHOWDER WITH SEASONED OYSTER CRACKERS
Chock-full of fish, shrimp and scallops, this comforting chowder has been pleasing my family for many years. The seasoned oyster crackers add a bit of spice.-Virginia Anthony, Jacksonville, Florida
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Lunch
Time 1h10m
Yield 12 servings (4-1/2 quarts).
Number Of Ingredients 22
Steps:
- In a small bowl, combine the butter, marinade for chicken, pepper sauce, curry and paprika. Add the crackers; toss to coat., Transfer to a greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown, stirring twice. Set aside., Meanwhile, in a stockpot, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. Using a slotted spoon, remove to paper towels to drain., Saute potatoes and leeks in drippings; stir in flour and thyme until blended. Gradually whisk in broth and clam juice. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Cook and stir 1-2 minutes longer. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10 minutes or until potatoes are tender., Add the corn, zucchini, grouper, shrimp and scallops; cook for 2-4 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a fork. Stir in the cream, salt and pepper; heat through. Serve with crackers and bacon.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 295 calories, Fat 12g fat (5g saturated fat), Cholesterol 80mg cholesterol, Sodium 885mg sodium, Carbohydrate 25g carbohydrate (3g sugars, Fiber 2g fiber), Protein 22g protein.
SEAFOOD CHOWDER
Provided by Ina Garten
Time 2h10m
Yield 3 quarts
Number Of Ingredients 26
Steps:
- Cut the shrimp, scallops, and monkfish into bite-sized pieces and place them in a bowl with the crabmeat.
- In a heavy-bottomed pot, melt the butter; add the carrots, onions, celery, potatoes, and corn and saute over medium-low heat for 15 minutes, or until the potatoes are barely cooked, stirring occasionally. Add the flour; reduce the heat to low and cook, stirring often, for 3 minutes. Add the Seafood Stock and bring to a boil. Add the seafood; reduce the heat and simmer, uncovered, for 7 to 10 minutes, until the fish is just cooked. Add the heavy cream, if desired, and the parsley. Add salt and pepper to taste, and serve.
- Warm the oil in a stockpot over medium heat. Add the shrimp shells, onions, carrots, and celery and saute for 15 minutes, or until lightly browned. Add the garlic and cook 2 more minutes. Add 1 1/2 quarts of water, the white wine, tomato paste, salt, pepper, and thyme. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 1 hour. Strain through a sieve, pressing the solids. You should have approximately 1 quart of stock. You can make up the difference with water or wine if you need to.
OYSTER CHOWDER
I love making soups and stews because once you know the technique, it gives you the liberty to build your own flavors!
Provided by Kelsey Nixon
Categories main-dish
Time 1h10m
Yield 6 to 8 servings
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Heat a Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the butter, followed by the celery and leeks. Continue cooking, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables have softened but are not browning, 3 to 5 minutes.
- Add the wine to the vegetables and let reduce by half. Add the potatoes and stir to combine. Add the clam juice, 1 cup water and the reserved oyster liquor. The potatoes will soak up some of the saltiness of the oysters and their liquor, giving them great flavor. Bring to a simmer, cover and continue cooking until the potatoes are tender, 6 to 7 minutes.
- Remove 1 1/2 cups of the soup, blend until smooth in a blender or food processor and return to the pot. Stir in the half-and-half and seafood seasoning. Season with salt and pepper. Bring to a simmer before adding the oysters. Cook just until the oysters begin to curl, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from the heat and garnish with parsley. Serve with oyster crackers.
RICHARD'S SEAFOOD CHOWDER
A rich tasting seafood chowder that can be served as a main dish, with a green salad and hot bread.
Provided by Richard Danser
Categories Soups, Stews and Chili Recipes Soup Recipes Cream Soup Recipes
Time 55m
Yield 7
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- In a large stockpot over medium heat, saute onion in oil and sherry, until soft. Add carrots, celery, and potato and saute 2 minutes. Add clam juice and cover. Simmer until potatoes are soft (about 15 minutes).
- Puree half of the mixture in a blender until smooth, then return to stock pot.
- Add tomato paste, cayenne, milk, half and half, shrimp, and scallops. Bring to boil, lower heat to simmer, and cook for 5 minutes. Taste for seasoning and add salt and pepper, if desired.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 360.2 calories, Carbohydrate 30.7 g, Cholesterol 170 mg, Fat 12.8 g, Fiber 2.1 g, Protein 26.5 g, SaturatedFat 6.2 g, Sodium 827.2 mg, Sugar 9.1 g
COCONUT COD CHOWDER WITH SEASONED OYSTER CRACKERS
Too often fish chowder is heavy, gloppy, and one-note. Not this one. Coconut milk and lots of zippy aromatics bring life to the dish.
Provided by Molly Baz
Categories Bon Appétit Dinner One-Pot Meal Seafood Fish Cod Coconut Leek Potato Celery Coriander Ginger Soy Free Peanut Free Tree Nut Free Spring
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Season cod all over with 1½ tsp. salt; set aside. Heat 3 Tbsp. ghee in a medium Dutch oven over medium. Cook leeks, garlic, and ginger, stirring occasionally, until softened but not browned, about 3 minutes. Add turmeric, coriander, and cardamom and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add chile, potatoes, coconut milk, 1 tsp. salt, and ¾ cup water; bring to a boil (still over medium). Immediately reduce heat so soup is at a bare simmer. Cover, leaving lid slightly askew, and cook until potatoes are barely fork-tender, 10-12 minutes.
- Carefully nestle reserved fish into pot, spoon some broth over, and cover, leaving lid slightly askew. Cook at a bare simmer 4 minutes, then stir in celery. Cook until fish is opaque and flakes easily, about 5 minutes. Taste chowder and season with more salt if needed.
- Meanwhile, heat remaining 2 Tbsp. ghee in a small skillet over medium-low. Add crackers and stir well to coat. Cook, stirring often, until golden brown, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and add paprika; toss to evenly coat.
- Slice 1 lime in half and squeeze juice into chowder. Taste and season with more salt if needed. Ladle into bowls, breaking fish into large pieces. Scatter celery leaves over chowder if using and top with crackers. Slice remaining lime into wedges and serve alongside.
TASTY SEASONED OYSTER CRACKERS
A wonderful seasoned oyster cracker recipe similar to others, but with different quantities and ingredients. So great as a snack or on salads. My kids love them! Quick, easy, and tasty!
Provided by JulieCC
Categories Appetizers and Snacks Snacks Cracker Recipes
Time 25m
Yield 32
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 275 degrees F (135 degrees C).
- In a large bowl, mix the canola oil, ranch dressing mix, dill, lemon pepper, granulated garlic, onion powder, seasoned salt, and white pepper until thoroughly combined. Gently mix the crackers with the seasonings, tossing to coat the crackers with the seasoned oil. Spread the crackers out onto a jelly roll pan in a single layer.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the crackers are very lightly browned at the edges, 15 to 20 minutes, stirring to bake other sides halfway through cooking. Allow to cool completely before storing in airtight canister or resealable plastic bag.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 169.2 calories, Carbohydrate 20.5 g, Fat 8.4 g, Fiber 0.9 g, Protein 2.6 g, SaturatedFat 0.9 g, Sodium 390.3 mg, Sugar 0.2 g
BEST SEAFOOD CHOWDER
My husband is an avid fisherman. When a family get-together was planned and we had to bring something, we created this recipe using fish from our freezer. The chowder got rave reviews from the relatives! -Heather Saunders, Belchertown, Massachusetts
Provided by Taste of Home
Time 1h
Yield 32 servings (8 quarts).
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- In a large soup kettle or Dutch oven, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. Remove with a slotted spoon to paper towels; reserve drippings. Saute onions in drippings until tender. Add potatoes and water; bring to a boil. Cook for 10 minutes., Add the scallops, lobster, shrimp, cod and haddock. Cook for 10 minutes or until scallops are opaque, shrimp turn pink and fish flakes easily with a fork. Add the butter, salt, parsley and curry powder. Stir in milk and evaporated milk; heat through. Garnish with bacon, additional parsley, and oyster crackers, if desired.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 193 calories, Fat 9g fat (4g saturated fat), Cholesterol 76mg cholesterol, Sodium 625mg sodium, Carbohydrate 11g carbohydrate (4g sugars, Fiber 1g fiber), Protein 17g protein.
FISH CHOWDER WITH HERBED OYSTER CRACKERS
Steps:
- To make the fish chowder:
- In a heavy saucepan cook bacon over moderate heat, stirring, until crisp and transfer with a slotted spoon to paper towels to drain. Pour off fat and in pan cook onion, carrot, and celery in butter over moderately low heat, stirring occasionally, until softened.
- Sprinkle flour over mixture and cook, stirring, 3 minutes. Stir in paprika and cook, stirring, 30 seconds. Add clam juice, water, and cream and bring to a boil, stirring occasionally.
- While mixture is coming to a boil, peel potato and cut into 1/4-inch dice. Add potato to mixture and simmer chowder, uncovered, 12 minutes. Stir in fish and simmer until just cooked through, about 5 minutes. Stir in parsley, bacon, and salt and pepper.
- Serve chowder with herbed oyster crackers.
- To make the crackers:
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- In a small saucepan melt butter with thyme, rosemary, and salt and pepper to taste over moderate heat, stirring. Add crackers and toss to coat with butter. On a baking sheet arrange crackers in one layer and bake in middle of oven 10 minutes, or until deep golden.
- Makes 1 1/2 cups.
SEATTLE SEAFOOD CHOWDER
I found a basic recipe for a seafood chowder in one of my Seattle cookbooks. I have since added ingredients and changed amounts through the years. This recipe is the total of my experimentation. The flexibility of the recipe is great. You may use 1 lb of any assorted shellfish that is in season, to replace the shrimp and scallops. Or sub another pound of white fish or salmon if you choose. It is so versatile. It makes a nice big pot of a winter hardy chowder. It freezes well, for quick dinners another night. (if freezing do not add potatoes until you reheat the soup) It is best when you garnish the soup with oyster crackers or croutons. A wonderful meal on a cold Minnesota winters night!
Provided by Expat in Holland
Categories Chowders
Time 1h10m
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 20
Steps:
- In a large pot over medium heat, cook bacon until crisp. Remove bacon and crumble. Set bacon aside. Pour off all bacon fat in pot. Place pot back on stove.
- In pot, melt butter and add onion, carrots, celery and bell pepper. Sauté vegetables until soften.
- Sprinkle flour over top of vegetable and stir to combine well. Simmer mixture over low heat for 3 minutes.
- Add paprika, thyme and cayenne. Cook another minute.
- Add clams with juice, clam juice, wine, water and cream. Bring to a boil. Stir frequently.
- Add cubed potatoes and simmer soup for 15 minutes, uncovered.
- Stir in fish, shrimp and scallops. Over low heat simmer mixture for 8 minutes.
- Stir in parsley and bacon. Add salt and pepper to taste. Simmer a minute or two.
- Serve.
HEARTY NEW ENGLAND OYSTER CHOWDER WITH RIVELS
I revised an Oyster Chowder recipe given to me by a friend and came up with this hearty Oyster Chowder with Rivels (small dumplings). It's quick and easy to make and very filling. Please note: the quantity of the ingredients is an approximation because I don't normally measure ingredients when I cook.
Provided by Crafty Lady 13
Categories Stew
Time 50m
Yield 4-6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- In a stock pot saute onions in butter. Add oysters and saute for additional 3 - 4 minutes. Add milk, potatoes, parsley, basil, salt and pepper.
- As chowder is cooking, make rivels. Beat together egg, milk, salt, pepper and parsley. Add enough flour to form a soft dough. Bring chowder to a slow boil and drop small bits of dough into the chowder, stirring occasionally. (I use two small spoons, one to scoop up a little dough and the other to scrape the dough off the spoon into the chowder.) These will turn into little dumplings otherwise known as rivels.
- Simmer until potatoes are cooked through. If you wish to thicken the chowder, mix 3 tablespoons flour with 1/3 cup milk to make a smooth paste. Slowly add a little bit at a time to chowder stirring constantly until chowder thickens.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 578.3, Fat 23.9, SaturatedFat 13.7, Cholesterol 163.1, Sodium 481.8, Carbohydrate 65.4, Fiber 4.3, Sugar 2.2, Protein 25.9
Tips:
- To make the perfect oyster crackers, use a combination of all-purpose flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and pepper. Add grated Parmesan cheese for extra flavor.
- To make the chowder more flavorful, use a variety of seafood, such as clams, mussels, and shrimp, in addition to the oysters.
- To add a smoky flavor to the chowder, use smoked paprika or bacon.
- For a creamy chowder, use heavy cream or half-and-half.
- To make the chowder more hearty, add vegetables such as potatoes, carrots, and celery.
- Serve the chowder with oyster crackers, crusty bread, or crackers of your choice.
Conclusion:
Seafood chowder is a delicious and comforting dish that is perfect for a cold day. With its creamy broth, tender seafood, and flavorful seasonings, it is sure to be a hit with everyone at the table. The oyster crackers are the perfect accompaniment to the chowder, adding a crunchy texture and a salty flavor. This recipe is easy to follow and can be made with a variety of seafood, vegetables, and seasonings, so you can customize it to your own taste.
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