Mom's Clam Chowder
"This chowder always disappears. It disappeared when my mom made it, and it's a hit now with my family too!"
Original is 5 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (372.5 g)
- Calories 281.4
- Total Fat - 12.3 g
- Saturated Fat - 7.3 g
- Cholesterol - 48.9 mg
- Sodium - 551 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 29.7 g
- Dietary Fiber - 3.5 g
- Sugars - 5.5 g
- Protein - 13.5 g
- Calcium - 132 mg
- Iron - 1.9 mg
- Vitamin C - 13 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Cook potato in 2 cups water with pinch of salt until tender, but do not drain.
Step 2
In a small pan, saute onion in butter until tender; add flour, cayenne, and celery seed; stir well.
Step 3
Drain juice from clams into potatoes and reserve clams for later.
Step 4
Add parsley and milk to potatoes, and stir well.
Step 5
Heat potato mixture, and add onion/flour mixture, stirring constantly until thickened slightly.
Step 6
Stir in clams; and season to taste with salt and pepper.
Step 7
Cook for 5-10 minutes more or until heated through.
Tips
No special items needed.