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Re: Manhattan Clam Chowder - Gutenberg - 03-07-2009 Fellas, chowder is any chunky soup. You don't have to have cream or milk in a chowder. And New England clam chowder is delicious, but so is Manhattan clam chowder if it's made well. BTW--the Manhattanites introduced tomato to their chowder because the Italians didn't have cows in the backyard on Mulberry St. Manhattan Clam Chowder is SO easy to make. Start with the smokiest bacon you can find, and brown about a quarter pound in a big pot. Remove the bacon, pour some of the fat off and keep about two tablespoons of fat in the pot. Add a chopped onion and half a bell pepper, also chopped, and stir them around in the bacon fat till they start to get soft, about five minutes on medium high heat. Add a tablespoon of tomato paste and stir it around till it smells good and tomatoey, about a minute. Add two cans of diced tomatoes, a bottle of clam juice and two peeled and cubed potatoes. Let that cook for 15 minutes or so on medium to medium low while you shuck 18 clams. Chop the clams and add them and the bacon to the soup along with some thyme and pepper. Cook for another five minutes until everything is heated through, and serve with French bread and a salad. Re: Manhattan Clam Chowder - Jack D. - 03-07-2009 Ombligo wrote: Other than slight adjustments to certain proportions this is my exact recipe. Kap, the only thing you can do to improve on this is dig the clams yourself. Now if you don't like it white you can always slop some ketchup in there to make it Manhattan style but don't do it in these parts. People will know you're a tourist for sure. So remember, no tomatoes, no tofu, no sprouts, no goat cheese, no avocado, no low fat/sodium/cholesterol anything! Use REAL butter, REAL bacon and REAL cream ....and please don't put ketchup in it. Re: Manhattan Clam Chowder - OWC Jamie - 03-07-2009 kap wrote: For a more traditional Yankee clam chowder look for Snow's. You'd be surprised how many restaurants use it solely or as a base. If you really like the 'portuguese' style just add some whole canned or jarred tomatoes to the Snow's. If you want real die hard portuguese or Azorean chowder add kale. maybe even some chorico. (course, now you don't even need the clams because you're making poor man's stew) :-) Re: Manhattan Clam Chowder - AAA - 03-07-2009 That's the one type I do not like. Re: Manhattan Clam Chowder - RgrF - 03-07-2009 If you're going to use Snow's (which isn't a bad choice but not on par with Trader Joe's) don't dilute it with an equal can of milk use about half that amount and throw a chunk of artery hardening butter in. Re: Manhattan Clam Chowder - kap - 03-07-2009 Y'all are making me hungry! I will try simple version of the given recipe here. Nothing is more delicious than hot soup on chilly days! Thank you everyone! Re: Manhattan Clam Chowder - OWC Jamie - 03-07-2009 Snow's being a half way decent clam chowder could be a thirty year old and out of date statement. Mollusks do not meet my teeth. Re: Manhattan Clam Chowder - RgrF - 03-07-2009 You have teeth left? Re: Manhattan Clam Chowder - Racer X - 03-09-2009 in a glass, on the nightstand. |