Manhattan Clam Chowder With Hake And Chorizo Food

MANHATTAN CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add the onion, celery, garlic, and crushed red pepper and cook, covered, stirring occasionally, until soft, about 8 minutes. Stir in the tomato paste and cook, stirring, for about 1 minute more. Tie the parsley sprigs, fresh thyme, and bay leaf together with a piece of kitchen twine and add to the pot with the potatoes. Pour in the clam juice and bring to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer, covered, until the potatoes are tender, about 10 minutes. Stir in the tomatoes and clams. Cover and bring to a low simmer. Season with pepper to taste. Divide among warm soup bowls and sprinkle with the parsley. Serve immediately.
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ZESTY MANHATTAN CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• Combine Italian-style tomatoes, crushed tomatoes, potatoes, onions, carrots, green bell pepper, red bell pepper, celery, and jalapeno peppers in a large stockpot.
• Bring water to a boil in a small saucepan. Stir in chicken bouillon and beef bouillon cubes until dissolved. Pour over tomato mixture in the stockpot.
• Stir clam juice cocktail, sugar, thyme leaves, chili powder, garlic salt, black pepper, and bay leaf into the stockpot. Cook chowder, stirring occasionally, until potatoes are very tender, about 1 hour 30 minutes.
• Combine clams, milk, and flour in a separate saucepan; cook and stir over low heat until clams are heated through, about 7 minutes. Stir into the stockpot and simmer until flavors combine, about 30 minutes.

MANHATTAN CLAM CHOWDER WITH HAKE AND CHORIZO

Steps:

• In a large heavy-bottomed pot, combine wine with 1 1/2 cups water. Place over high heat, and bring to a boil. Add clams, cover, and cook until they open, about 5 minutes. Discard unopened or cracked clams, and transfer others to a bowl. Strain liquid through a fine-mesh strainer into a bowl; set aside. When clams are cool enough to handle, remove from shells and chop into 1/4-inch pieces.
• In a large soup pot, heat 3 tablespoons olive oil over medium heat. Add bacon and sauté until golden brown, about 2 minutes. Add garlic, onion, fennel, celery, bell pepper, carrot, bay leaves, oregano and chili peppers. Sauté until softened, about 10 minutes. Add tomato paste and sauté for 2 minutes. Add potato, reserved clam broth and bottled clam juice. Bring to a boil, lower heat and simmer until potatoes are tender, 8 to 10 minutes. Add tomatoes, cook for 2 minutes, and shut off heat.
• Place a large nonstick skillet over medium heat, and add 2 remaining tablespoons olive oil. Season hake on both sides with salt and pepper to taste. When oil is hot, sear skin-side down for 2 minutes, then flip and cook until opaque in center, 3 to 4 minutes. Transfer to a plate. Add chorizo to pan, and sauté until lightly browned, about 1 minute. Transfer to a plate. If using scallops, add to pan and sauté just until opaque, about 1 minute. Remove from heat.
• Add clams to pot of chowder. Reheat if necessary, and adjust salt and pepper to taste. To serve, ladle chowder into bowls and top with hake, chorizo and scallops. Serve immediately.

MANHATTAN CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a heavy bottomed soup pot, heat the olive oil, add the bacon or fat back and cook until its fat begins to render. Add the diced vegetables to the pot and sweat over low heat until wilted, about 15 minutes. Add the oregano, thyme, bay leaves, garlic, and cayenne and stir to combine. Add the crushed tomato and water and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for one hour. Add the potatoes and continue to simmer for another 1/2 hour. Stir in the chopped clams with their juice and continue to cook for 2 minutes. Season with salt and freshly ground pepper. Serve hot, with chowder crackers and freshly grated horseradish as a garnish.;

MANHATTAN CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• Bring water to a boil in a large pot. Add clams, cover, and cook until shells open, about 10 minutes. Transfer clams to a large bowl, reserving cooking liquid. Discard any clams that do not open. Remove meat from shells, and return to bowl. Discard shells. Pour reserved liquid through a fine sieve lined with cheesecloth into a large bowl (you should have 2 1/2 cups). Sprinkle a few tablespoons liquid over clams to keep them moist.
• Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add pancetta, and cook, stirring occasionally, until golden brown, about 7 minutes. Remove pancetta with a slotted spoon, and drain on paper towels. Pour off excess drippings, leaving just enough to coat bottom of pot. Add remaining 1 tablespoon oil, and reduce heat to medium. Add onion, celery, garlic, and red-pepper flakes, and cook, scraping bottom of pot, until vegetables are light gold, about 7 minutes.
• Raise heat to high, and stir in Marsala if desired. Add tomatoes, 1 cup reserved tomato juice, 2 1/2 cups reserved clam broth, and the potato. Reduce heat, and simmer until potato is tender, 8 to 10 minutes.
• Cut large clams in half. Stir clams, pancetta, parsley, and oregano into broth, and heat until warmed through, about 30 seconds. Season with salt and pepper, and serve immediately.

SLOW-COOKED MANHATTAN CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a 3-qt. slow cooker, combine all ingredients. Cover and cook on low for 8-10 hours or until vegetables are tender. Discard bay leaf and peppercorns.

JASPER'S MANHATTAN CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• Heat a 4- to 6-quart heavy-bottomed pot over low heat, and add bacon. Once it has rendered a few tablespoons of fat, increase the heat to medium, and cook until bacon is crisp and golden brown. Pour off all but 1 tablespoon of fat, leaving bacon in the pot.
• Add olive oil and garlic, and cook for 30 seconds. Add onion, celery, bell pepper, carrots, bay leaves, oregano, and crushed red pepper. Saute, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon, until vegetables are softened but not browned, 10 to 12 minutes.
• Add potatoes and clam broth. The broth should just barely cover the potatoes; if it doesn't, add enough water to cover. Increase the heat, bring to a boil, cover, and cook potatoes vigorously until they are soft on the outside but still firm in the center, about 10 minutes. If the broth hasn't thickened lightly, smash a few potatoes against the side of the pot, and cook 1 to 2 minutes more to release the starch.
• Add tomatoes, and simmer 5 minutes more. Remove pot from the heat, stir in diced clams and parsley, and season with black pepper. If you are not serving the chowder within the hour, let it cool a bit, then refrigerate; cover after it has chilled completely. Otherwise, let it sit at room temperature for up to 1 hour, allowing the flavor to meld.
• When ready to serve, reheat the chowder over low heat; don't let it boil. Ladle into cups or bowls, making sure clams, vegetables, and bacon are evenly divided

THE ULTIMATE MANHATTAN CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• Steam clams in a large pot and reserve the liquid that is left- it should measure about 3+ cups.
• Chop the clams.
• In a large pot, cook the bacon over medium/high heat until slightly crisp.
• Add the onions and cook, stirring until transparent.
• Add the pepper, carrot and celery and cook for about a minute.
• Add the clams, tomatoes, clam liquid, water, bay leaf, thyme ground pepper.
• Bring to a boil and add potatoes.
• Simmer 30 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
• Remove the bay leaf. Add chopped parsley.
• Add the cooked shrimp now if you plan to use them, but do not continue to cook or the shrimp will get tough.
• You should only warm the shrimp over for best results.
• Season with salt and pepper, if desired.

MANHATTAN CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• Place the salt pork in the soup pot and cook until the fat renders; add the onions, carrots, celery, leeks and green peppers to the fat and cook, stirring, until the vegetables are tender.
• Add the garlic and cook until it becomes aromatic, then add the clam juice (or water, if using), the reserved juice from the clams, the diced tomatoes, the bay leaf, the thyme, and oregano; simmer for 30 minutes.
• Add the potatoes and simmer until they are tender, about 20-25 minutes more.
• Skim the soup for fat or chill to allow it to rise and remove; discard bay leaf.
• If chilled, heat through, then add clams and seasonings (salt, pepper, Tabasco, Worcestershire, and Old Bay).
• Serve when hot, about 2-3 minutes after adding clams.

MANHATTAN-STYLE CLAM CHOWDER WITH CHILIES

Steps:

• Fry bacon in heavy large saucepan over medium-high heat until just beginning to brown, about 7 minutes. Add onion, celery, garlic, bay leaf and thyme and cook until onion is tender, stirring occasionally, about 8 minutes. Add stewed tomatoes with their juices, clam juice, tomato sauce, potato and chilies. Reduce heat and simmer until potato is very tender, about 40 minutes. Add clams with juices and heat through. Season chowder to taste with salt and pepper. Ladle into bowls and serve.

MANHATTAN-STYLE CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• Cook and stir bacon in large saucepan until crisp. Remove bacon from pan; drain on paper towels. Discard all but 1 Tbsp. drippings from pan.
• Add carrots and onions to reserved drippings; cook and stir 3 to 5 min. or until crisp-tender. Add tomato paste; cook and stir 30 sec.
• Add remaining ingredients; stir. Bring to boil, stirring occasionally. Cover; simmer on medium-low heat 15 to 20 min. or until vegetables are tender, stirring occasionally.
• Serve topped with bacon.

CHEF JOHN'S MANHATTAN CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• Drain baby and chopped clams. Reserve liquid in the refrigerator until needed and set clams aside.
• Place bacon in a soup pot over medium-high heat; cook and stir until well-browned and almost crispy, 7 to 10 minutes. Add onion, garlic, and a pinch of salt; cook and stir until onions start to soften and turn translucent, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Add tomato paste; cook and stir for 2 minutes. Don't worry if some of the tomato paste sticks to the bottom of the pot; we want that to happen. Sprinkle in flour; cook and stir for 2 to 3 minutes.
• Dump in reserved clam juice plus bottled clam juice and chicken broth. Stir with a spatula, scraping the bottom of the pot to deglaze any caramelization.
• Add carrots, celery, clams, diced tomatoes, pepper, and cayenne; stir and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes, skimming off some bacon fat if desired.
• Add diced potatoes and cook until tender but not falling apart, about 20 minutes. Taste and adjust for salt, if needed. Stir in fresh tarragon and parsley just before serving.

MANHATTAN CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• Remove and set aside the tough muscle of each clam. Reserve both the muscle and softer body portions. Chop the muscles as finely as possible or purée them in a food processor, leaving the meat a bit coarse but fine. There should be about one and one- quarter cups.
• Cut the salt pork into very fine dice. Put the dice into a large pot and cook, stirring often, until they are rendered of fat and are slightly crisp.
• Add the onions and cook, stirring, until they are wilted. Add the green pepper, carrots and celery, and cook, stirring, about one minute.
• Add the chopped clam muscles, tomatoes, broth, water, bay leaf, thyme, salt and pepper. Bring to the boil and add the potatoes. Simmer, skimming the surface to remove all trace of foam and scum, 20 to 30 minutes or until the potatoes are tender.
• Finely chop the soft body portions of the clams or chop them using a food processor. Add this to the chowder and continue cooking five minutes, skimming the surface as necessary. Remove the bay leaf. Stir in the parsley and serve.

HEARTY MANHATTAN CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• Place all ingredients in a 4- or 5-qt. slow cooker. Cook, covered, on low until vegetables are tender, 7-9 hours. Remove bay leaf before serving.

CLASSIC MANHATTAN CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• 1. Wash the clams well under cold running water in colander. Place clams in a large pot, and add enough water to cover clams by 2 inches. Cover the pan and place over high heat.
• 2. When the water comes to a boil, give the pan a good shake. Turn the heat to low, and cook clams another 30 seconds or so. Remove from the heat, and take out all the clams that have opened, using a slotted spoon. If any clams remain closed, put back on the heat, with the lid on the pan, and cook another 1-2 minutes. Remove remaining clams, reserve, discard any clams that have not opened.
• 3. Pour the clam juice through a fine strainer and set aside. You will need 6 cups of broth. If you have more than enough clam broth, reduce it to 6 cups. If you have too little clam brother, add some bottled clam juice or water to make 6 cups total.
• 4. Put the bacon into a large, heavy saucepan and cook over moderate heat, stirring, until the bacon begins to brown. Pour off excess fat, leaving behind the bacon and about 3 tablespoons of fat in the pan.
• 5. Add the onion, celery, and carrot to the pan and cook until soft, about 10 minutes. Add potatoes, and cook mixture for 10 minutes more. Add tomatoes and reserved clam juice to the pan. Bring chowder to a boil over high heat.
• 6. While chowder is coming to a boil, remove clams from their shells and chop coarsely. Add to chowder and reduce heat to low. Add thyme leaves. Cook over low heat for another 5 minutes; check to make sure potatoes are soft and chowder is well seasoned. Remove and allow to sit for 5 minutes. Serve in warm bowls.