Seafood Chowder

According to Wikipedia, Chowder is a type of soup or stew often prepared with milk or cream and thickened with broken crackers, crushed ship biscuit, or a roux. Variations of chowder can be seafood or vegetable. Seafood lovers like me will definitely loves this type of soup. It is versatile as you can add any type of seafood to it. You can serve your chowder with crackers. However, I love to dunk my baguette into it.

Ingredients:

• 25 g butter
• 2 cloves garlic, chopped
• 50 g yellow onion, cubed
• 50 g potatoes, cubed
• 40 g celery, cubed
• 30 g carrots, cubed
• 30 g green peas
• 30 g corn
• 8 pcs blue mussels
• 6 pcs scallops
• 2 squid tubes (30 g)
• 2 big prawns (30 g meat only)
• 50 g salmon, cubed
• 250 g seafood broth
• 300 g cream
• 1 pc bay leaf
• 1/4 tsp dried thyme, or more
• 1 tsp salt, or to taste
• 1/2 tsp white pepper powder, or more
• 1/2 tsp black pepper powder, or more
• 2 tbsp corn flour
• 4 tbsp water

Method:

• Add butter to a pot. 

• When butter has melted, add onions and fry till they are translucent.

• Add garlic and saute till fragrant.

• Add potato, celery, carrot and sweet corn. Stir fry for a while.

• Add seafood broth.

• When the broth is boiling, add bay leaf and thyme.

• Add seafood - black mussel, prawns, scallops, squids and salmon.

• Add cream.

• Add seasonings of salt, white and black pepper powder

• Mix corn flour with water. When the chowder is boiling, add the corn flour mixture to thicken it.

• Serve it hot.