Cod Chowder For Two Recipes

CODFISH CHOWDER

Steps:

• Cook bacon in a soup pot over medium heat until crisp and brown, about 10 minutes. Remove bacon with a slotted spoon, leaving drippings in the pot. Cook and stir onion and red bell pepper until softened, about 5 minutes; season with salt and pepper. Stir in garlic and seafood seasoning and cook and stir 2 more minutes.
• Pour in chicken broth and stir in potatoes and corn; add water if needed to cover vegetables. Bring to a boil and reduce heat to low; simmer until potatoes are tender, about 15 minutes. Stir in milk and butter until butter has melted; mix in reserved bacon. Bring the soup just to the boiling point and stir in cod and parsley; cook, stirring occasionally, until fish flakes easily, 5 to 8 minutes.

NEWFOUNDLAND COD CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a large, heavy saucepan, cook bacon over medium high heat for about 10 minutes or until crisp.
• Chop the cooked bacon coarsely and set aside.
• Drain off all but 1 tablespoons bacon fat from saucepan.
• Add onions and savory to the saucepan. Cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes or until softened.
• Add potatoes, carrots, water and salt.
• Bring to boil. Cover; reduce heat and simmer for about 20 minutes or until tender.
• Add the cod chunks; simmer for about 5 minutes or until fish flakes easily.
• Add milk and pepper, heat through.
• Serve in bowls and garnish with the bacon and chives.

COD CHOWDER

Steps:

• Heat a heavy pot over medium heat and add the bacon.
• Cook until the bacon is golden brown and crispy, about 10 minutes.
• With a slotted spoon, remove the crispy bits and reserve, leaving the fat in the pot.
• Add the onion, celery, thyme and bay leaf to the pot and cook, stirring occasionally, for 8 to 10 minutes, until the vegetables are softened but not browned.
• Sprinkle in the flour and cook, stirring, another 2 minutes.
• Add the potatoes, chicken broth and clam juice and bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat to low and simmer until the potatoes are tender yet still firm, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Add the cod and corn. Do not stir.
• Cook for 5 minutes.
• Remove the pot from the heat, cover and allow the chowder to sit for 10 minutes (the fish will finish cooking during this time).
• Return chowder to heat and stir in the half-and-half, gently to avoid breaking the fish into small pieces.
• Season to taste. Bring chowder to serving temperature over gentle heat, uncovered.
• Sprinkle reserved crisped bacon on top and serve.

COD CHOWDER FOR TWO

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, over medium-low heat, melt butter and saute onion, celery, carrots and mushroom slices until veggies are tender; stir occasionally, will take from 5 to 10 minutes.
• Add potato and water; cover and cook for 5 minutes or until potatoes are just tender.
• Add milk and corn to the pot, along with salt and pepper; bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat to a simmer and add fish; cover and cook for about 5 minutes or until fish easily flakes with a fork; do NOT let it return to a boil.

CREAMY COD CHOWDER STEW

Steps:

• Bring a saucepan of salted water to the boil, add the potato and parsnips, and boil until almost tender - about 4 mins. Drain well.
• Meanwhile, put the fish in a pan where they will fit snugly but not on top of each other. Cover with the milk, poke in the parsley stalks and bring the milk to a gentle simmer. Cover the pan, turn off the heat and leave to sit in the milk for 5 mins. Lift the fish out and break into large chunks. Discard the parsley stalks but keep the milk.
• Put the spring onion whites, milk and flour in a saucepan together. Bring to a simmer, whisking continuously, until the sauce has thickened and become smooth. Turn the heat down, add the drained potatoes and parsnips, the lemon zest and half the juice, and cook gently for 5 mins, stirring occasionally. Stir in the spring onion greens, fish and parsley, and taste for seasoning - it will need plenty of pepper, some salt and maybe more lemon juice from the leftover half. Divide between two shallow bowls, serve with chunks of crusty bread and enjoy.

CREAMY CORN & BACON CHOWDER FOR TWO

Steps:

• Brown bacon and add onions. Sautee until onions are soft and translucent.
• Drain excess fat.
• Add the next three ingrediants and reduce heat.
• Cover and simmer for 15 minutes or until potatoes are tender, stirring often to prevent sticking or burning.
• Add the sugar and season with salt and fresh black pepper to your liking.

CLAM CHOWDER FOR TWO

Steps:

• In a heavy saucepan cook the bacon, the onion, and the celery in the butter over moderately low heat, stirring, until the celery is softened add the milk, the clams with the liquor, and the potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch pieces, and simmer the chowder, stirring occasionally, for 15 minutes, or until the potatoes are very tender.
• Stir in the scallion greens and salt and pepper to taste.