With winter on the way, I thought a few of you might like to try one of our favourite recipies.
We usually make this as an entree, but be warned that it is pretty much a meal in itself.
Please note that we don't measure the ingredients, so experiment until you achieve what you are after.
This can be a bit expensive if you are buying fresh seafood, but experience has shown that any "solid" fish will do and frozen seafood mixes work quite well. Of course if you have fresh, use it!!
Serves 6
Ingredients:
A couple of fillets of firm fish (cubed)
A tube of calamari
2 carrots
2 medium potatoes
2 sticks celery (or one if you hate celery as much as me)
1 large onion
1/2 medium capsicum
handfull fresh basil
handfull fresh chives
500 grams green prawns
small bag seafood mix - (baby octopus, scallops etc)
500 ml fish stock
500ml cream
tablespoon corn flour to thicken if required (to taste)
Cooking:
In a large pot add cubed potatoes, carrot, celery, onion etc (i.e all the veges & herbs) with the fish stock and cook over a medium heat until vegetable just start to soften.
Add fish cubes and simmer until fish is not quite cooked.
Add rest of seafood and cream and simmer until all seafood is cooked.
The aim is for the veges and seafood to all be cooked at the same time, but still be firm.
If it requires thickening, mix some cornflour with water and stir it in.
Serve with hot crusty bread rolls and plenty of cracked pepper, or if you want to get fancy, place each serving in a bowl and cover with pastry and cook until golden brown.
If doing the latter, don't completely cook the chowder before covering with pastry.
Warning: This doesn't keep well, so either freeze leftovers immediately of throw it out!!!
Be prepared to be dissappointed next time you order chowder at a restaurant
cheers,
Owen
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Originally Posted by Lucky_Phill
