Maine Corn Chowder Food

MAINE CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• In stock pot, fry bacon until crisp; remove and drain on paper towels.
• Add onion to bacon fat in stock pot; sauté until softened.
• Add potatoes, salt, pepper, and water; bring to steaming point.
• Lower heat and cook until potato is tender (about 15 minutes).
• Add creamed corn and frozen corn. Pour in milk and evaporated milk. Add butter and reheat slowly. Check seasoning; add more salt and pepper if needed.
• Stir in crumbled reserved bacon.
• Serve with oyster crackers.

LOBSTER CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• Remove the meat from the shells of the lobsters. Cut the meat into large cubes and place them in a bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate. Reserve the shells and all the juices that collect. Cut the corn kernels from the cobs and set aside, reserving the cobs separately.
• For the stock, melt the butter in a stockpot or Dutch oven large enough to hold all the lobster shells and corncobs. Add the onion and cook over medium-low heat for 7 minutes, until translucent but not browned, stirring occasionally. Add the sherry and paprika and cook for 1 minute. Add the milk, cream, wine, lobster shells and their juices, and corn cobs and bring to a simmer. Partially cover the pot and simmer the stock over the lowest heat for 30 minutes. (I move the pot halfway off the heat.)
• Meanwhile, in another stockpot or Dutch oven, heat the oil and cook the bacon for 4 to 5 minutes over medium-low heat, until browned and crisp. Remove with a slotted spoon and reserve. Add the potatoes, onions, celery, corn kernels, salt, and pepper to the same pot and saute for 5 minutes. When the stock is ready, remove the largest pieces of lobster shell and the corn cobs with tongs and discard. Place a strainer over the soup pot and carefully pour the stock into the pot with the potatoes and corn. Simmer over low heat for 15 minutes, until the potatoes are tender. Add the cooked lobster, the chives and the sherry and season to taste. Heat gently and serve hot with a garnish of crisp bacon.

SEAFOOD CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a large stockpot over medium heat, cook the bacon until browned. Add the butter and onions, and cook for 10 minutes. Add the flour and stir until well combined. Add 2 to 3 cups broth. Then add the potatoes, thyme, pepper, and salt and bring to a simmer. Cook until the potatoes are almost fork tender, about 10 minutes. Add the clams, haddock, shrimp, scallops, and oysters and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the half-and-half and heat through (do not bring to a boil or the chowder will curdle). When finished add parsley and serve.

BACON, SHRIMP, AND CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a stockpot, cook 3 slices of the bacon until crisp. Remove bacon, drain and crumble; set aside. Reserve 2 tablespoons bacon drippings.
• Add the onion and saute in bacon drippings until tender, about 8 minutes.
• Placed chopped pototoes over onions and add enough water to cover the potatoes. Add 1 tsp of Mrs Dash.
• Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium and cook until potatoes are tender.
• Meanwhile, cook remaining bacon; drain and crumble.
• Add corn, bacon and shrimp and cook until the shrimp are opaque.
• Remove from heat and let cool slightly.
• Stir in evaporated milk.
• Stir in light cream.
• Stir in milk (depending upon how thick you like your chowders, you may add more or less milk at this point).
• Add 2 tsp Mrs Dash.
• Reheat soup to just boiling, but do not boil.
• Add salt and pepper to taste.
• Remove from heat and cool.
• Refrigerate overnight and slowly reheat to serve.

MAINE LOBSTER AND CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• Bring water to a boil in a 12-quart stockpot. Add lobsters, cover, and cook 13 to 15 minutes. Set a colander in a large bowl. Working over colander, snip the tip of each lobster claw to release juices into bowl. Separate lobster meat from shells, and cut into bite-size pieces. Reserve meat and shells separately. Strain cooking liquid through a fine sieve lined with cheesecloth into bowl with lobster juices.
• Using the same stockpot, melt 2 tablespoons butter over medium-high heat. Add chopped leek, corncobs, and reserved lobster shells. Cook, stirring, for 4 minutes. Add reserved lobster liquid, and simmer gently for 20 minutes. Strain through a cheesecloth-lined sieve. Discard solids.
• Puree 1 cup lobster broth with 1 cup corn kernels. Melt remaining 1 tablespoon butter in a large pot over low heat. Add sliced leek, and cook for 2 minutes. Sprinkle in flour, and cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Stir in pureed corn mixture, and cook, stirring often, until broth thickens, about 2 minutes. Add remaining lobster broth, raise heat, and simmer. Add zucchini, summer squash, and remaining 2 cups corn, and cook until squashes are tender, about 2 minutes.
• Stir in reserved lobster meat, and heat until warmed through, about 1 minute. Season with salt, and garnish with basil. Serve immediately.

MAINE CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• 1. Using a good sized kettle or soup pot, place 2 slices salt pork in it and cook slowly over low heat until fat is 'tried out'.
• 2. Remove the pieces of salt pork and set aside.
• 3. Add the onion to the pot and cook slowly until the onion is yellowed.
• 4. Add water raw potato, salt and pepper. Cover and bring to a steaming point.
• 5. Lower heat and cook until potato is tender. About 15 minutes.
• 6. Add creamed corn and then the quart of milk. Substiture evaporated milk for some of the regular milk for extra richness, if you wish.
• 7. Taste for seasoning and then add the butter. Reheat slowly.
• 8. Allow chowder to ripen for an hour to develop flavor.