Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, mike's stacked seafood chowder. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mike's Stacked Seafood Chowder is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Mike's Stacked Seafood Chowder is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have mike's stacked seafood chowder using 32 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Mike's Stacked Seafood Chowder:
- Get 8 Cups Seafood Stock [made with all shells & strained x2]
- Prepare ☆ [note: you may not need all of your seafood stock]
- Take 1/2 Cup Quality White Wine
- Make ready 2 Bay Leaves
- Get ● For The Seafood [all fine chopped & presteamed]
- Make ready ☆ [note: reserve all shells for seafood stock]
- Take 1 Cup Shreadded Snow Crab Legs [look closely for any shells]
- Get 1/2 Cup Crawdad Tails [optional but consider them]
- Prepare 1 LG Lobster Tail
- Prepare 1 Cup Shrimp
- Get 1 Cup Clams
- Prepare ● For The Chowder [sauté hard veggies in 4 tbsp butter]
- Prepare 2 Cups Heavy Cream
- Prepare 1/2 Cup Diced Celery [to be sautéd]
- Prepare 1/2 Cup Diced Vidalia Onions [to be sautéd]
- Prepare 3 Cups Diced Potatoes [parboiled]
- Take 1/4 Cup Fresh Green Onions
- Take 1 Dash Saffron Threads
- Prepare 1 tbsp Fine Minced Garlic
- Make ready 1/4 Cup Fresh Chopped Parsley
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Fresh Thyme
- Prepare 1 tsp Old Bay Seasoning
- Get 1/2 tsp White Pepper
- Take 1 tbsp Fresh Ground Black Pepper
- Prepare 4 tbsp Butter & 1/4 Cup AP Flour
- Make ready ● For The Options [to taste]
- Get Chopped Carrots
- Get Sweet Corn
- Take ● For The Sides [as needed]
- Take Dry Sherry [to drizzle over chowder]
- Take Fresh Warm Crispy French Bread
- Take Seasoned Croutons
Steps to make Mike's Stacked Seafood Chowder:
- Various cold seafoods pictured.
- Steamed whole crawdads pictured.
- Pull all of your crab, lobster, crawdads, clams and shrimp meat from shells and reserve all shells.
- Create your seafood stock by boiling shells, wine and bay leaves for 15 minutes on high. Make enough for 8 cups. You may not need all stock depending upon how thick or thin you'll want your chowder. Strain your stock twice in a fine mesh strainer or cheese cloth
- At the same time, parboil your potatoes for 7 to 10 minutes to soften them before adding to your chowder. It's a real time saver. Small chop.
- Again, at the same time in a seperate pan, sauté your onions and celery in butter until translucent. About 2 to 3 minutes. Then, add flour and mix well until dissolved.
- Simmer chowder for 30 minutes. Stir regularly.
- Add your seafood to your chowder in the last 5 minutes of simmering.
- Serve chowder piping hot with crispy warm French bread for dipping and seasoned croutons. Also, Sherry to drizzle over the top if desired.
- Or, crispy garlic crustinins.
- Enjoy!
Learn How to Improve Your Mood with Food
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As you can see, you don’t need junk food or foods that are not good for you just so to feel better! Try a couple of of these suggestions instead.
