Recipe courtesy of Bob Kinkead
Chesapeake Chowder
- Level: Easy
- Yield: 6 servings (8 cups)
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- Nutritional Analysis
- Per Serving
- Serving Size
- 1 of 6 servings
- Calories
- 769
- Total Fat
- 40
- Saturated Fat
- 19
- Carbohydrates
- 39
- Dietary Fiber
- 4
- Sugar
- 9
- Protein
- 58
- Cholesterol
- 306
- Sodium
- 1829
- Total: 1 hr 15 min
- Prep: 15 min
- Cook: 1 hr
Ingredients
18 Chincoteague oysters, or Blue Point or Kumamoto
4 tablespoons butter
1 medium leek, diced, white part only
1 medium onion, diced (about 1 cup)
3 shallots, peeled and minced
1 tablespoon fresh picked thyme leaves
5 strips bacon, diced
3 teaspoons all-purpose flour
3 cups fish stock
2 cups clam juice (bottled is fine)
1/2 cup dry white wine
2 large potatoes, peeled and diced (about 2 cups)
2 ounces Virginia ham, finely diced
2 cups fresh-shucked corn
1 cups heavy cream
1/4 cup sherry
4 drops hot sauce (recommended: Tabasco)
1 pound rockfish or striped bass fillets, skinned and cut into 1-inch cubes
16 ounces jumbo lump crab meat (picked for shells)
2 tablespoons chopped chives
Sea salt
Cracked pepper
Directions
- Shuck the oysters and strain the liquor through a fine mesh sieve. Reserve oysters and liquid separately.
- In a saute pan, add the butter and heat until bubbling. Add the leeks, onions, shallots, and thyme and cook until transparent. In a separate large saucepan over medium-high heat, add the bacon and cook until crisp. Lower the heat, add the flour and cook the "roux" for 5 to 6 minutes. Add the fish stock, clam juice, oyster liquor, white wine, potatoes, and Virginia ham. Raise heat to high and bring to a simmer. Add the cooked leek-onion mixture and reduce all by 1/4. Add the corn and cook for 4 minutes. Add the cream, sherry, and hot sauce and cook 4 more minutes, stirring so as not to scorch. Add the rockfish, crabmeat and oysters and cook a minute or two. Check salt and pepper, noting that the ham is very salty so the chowder won't need much.
- Serve in 6 warm soup terrines and garnish with the chopped chives. Serve with corn breadsticks or common crackers.