Oyster House Clam Chowder Recipes

BOSTON'S UNION OYSTER HOUSE'S CLAM CHOWDER RECIPE

Steps:

• Bring the potatoes and the clam juice to the boil. Cook until the potatoes are tender, about 10 to 15 minutes. Add the clams and any of their liquid. Cook about 5 minutes. Set aside. Add the pork to a sauté pan and cook over low heat until rendered. Add the onions and cook until transparent. Add the butter and allow it to melt. Add the flour and cook until slightly colored. Add a bit more flour if necessary if the mixture is too soft. Bring the clams, juice and potatoes back to the boil. Gradually stir in the cooked roux. Bring to a rolling boil to thicken. Stir continuously while cooking. Beat the half-and-half and add to the soup. It may not be necessary to use all the half-and-half; the soup should be thick. Adjust the seasoning and add a dash of hot pepper sauce and Worcestershire sauce before serving. This recipe yields 10 servings.

OYSTER AND CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• Prepare onion, garlic, and celery. Heat 1 tablespoon broth in medium soup pot. Healthy Sauté onion, garlic, and celery in broth over medium heat for about 5 minutes stirring often.
• Add rest of broth, tomato sauce, and Italian herbs. Simmer for another 25 minutes.
• Drain and rinse both oysters and clams. If oysters are big, add to chowder about 2 minutes before canned clams. Heat for another 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste and sprinkle with chopped parsley.

OYSTER HOUSE CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• Bring potatoes and clam juice to a boil. Cook until potatoes are done. Add the clams, along with any surplus juice. Cook until tender, careful not to overcook and toughen the clams. Set aside.
• Skin the salt pork, dice it, and saute in a pan. Cook until rendered. Add onions and saute until translucent. Add butter, melt, and cook slightly. Add flour. If mixture is too loose, add a little more flour. Cook until slightly colored.
• Bring clams, juice and potatoes back to boil. Add cooked flour and salt pork mixture. Sauce will thicken, so stir often. Bring to a rolling boil. Add previously heated half-and-half to desired consistency. Season, to taste, with salt, pepper, hot pepper sauce, and Worcestershire sauce.
• Serve with Oyster crackers.

UNION OYSTER HOUSE CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• Bring potatoes and clam juice to a boil; cook until potatoes are done. Add clams (along with any surplus juice from same); cook until done. Set aside. NOTE: Do not overcook or clams will be tough. Skin pork, dice and sauté in pan; cook until rendered. Add onions; cook until glassy. Add butter, melt and cook slightly. Add flour. If mixture is too loose, add a little more flour. Cook until slightly colored. Bring clams, juice and potatoes back to boil. Add cooked roux. Thicken and bring to a rolling boil and stir. Add previously heated half- &-half to desired consistency. Season to taste. Serve with oyster or pilot crackers.

CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• Bring the potatoes and the clam juice to the boil. Cook until the potatoes are tender, about 10 to 15 minutes. Add the clams and any of their liquid. Cook about 5 minutes. Set aside.
• Add the pork to a saute pan and cook over low heat until rendered. Add the onions and cook until transparent. Add the butter and allow it to melt. Add the flour and cook until slightly colored. Add a bit more flour if necessary if the mixture is too soft. Bring the clams, juice and potatoes back to the boil. Gradually stir in the cooked roux. Bring to a rolling boil to thicken. Stir continuously while cooking. Beat the half and half and add to the soup. It may not be necessary to use all the half-and-half; the soup should be thick. Adjust the seasoning and add a dash of hot pepper sauce and Worcestershire sauce before serving.

CLAM AND OYSTER CHOWDER

Steps:

• Wash leeks well in a bowl of cold water, then lift out and drain well.
• Bring 1 cup fresh water to a boil in a 5-quart heavy pot, then add clams and cook over moderately high heat, covered, until clams are fully open, checking every minute after 5 minutes and transferring clams with a slotted spoon to a bowl as they fully open. (Discard any clams that have not opened after 8 minutes.) Pour cooking liquid through a fine-mesh sieve into another bowl.
• Remove cooked clams from shells, discarding shells. Coarsely chop clams and transfer to a bowl, then coarsely chop raw oysters and transfer to another bowl. Pour reserved oyster liquor through sieve into bowl with clam cooking liquid.
• Cook bacon in cleaned pot over moderate heat, stirring, until crisp, about 6 minutes, then transfer bacon with a slotted spoon to paper towels to drain. Add butter to pot and when foam subsides, cook onion, leeks, celery, and bay leaf, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are softened, 12 to 15 minutes.
• While vegetables are cooking, peel potatoes and cut into 1/2-inch cubes. Add wine to softened vegetables and boil until reduced by half, 1 to 2 minutes. Add potatoes, clam cooking liquid, and bottled clam juice. (If potatoes aren't fully covered with liquid, add more clam juice or water.) Simmer, covered, until potatoes are tender, 20 to 25 minutes.
• Purée 2 cups soup in a blender until very smooth (use caution when blending hot liquids) and return to pot. Add cream, salt, pepper, Old Bay, and cayenne and cook at a bare simmer, stirring, until soup is heated through (do not let boil). Add clams and oysters and cook, stirring, just until oyster pieces begin to curl, 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from heat and discard bay leaf, then stir in parsley. Serve topped with crumbled bacon.

OYSTER AND CLAM CHOWDER RECIPE - (4.1/5)

Steps:

• For Chowder: Heat pan, add olive oil and butter and heat. Saute potatoes along with bay leaf in 1 TB Bertolli Extra Light Olive Oil and 1 TB Land O' Lakes butter for about 10 minutes. Add in another TB butter, melt and saute celery and onion and saute about 4 minutes over medium low heat. Stir in 1/4 cup flour and cook for 1 minute to get rid of the raw taste. Add in clams and their liquid, slowly, stirring to thicken the chowder. Add in 1 cup heavy cream. Add in oysters just to heat through. (I had steamed my oysters first before shucking, so I just needed to heat them through. If you use raw oysters, cook 2-3 minutes.) For Hot Paprika Infused Oil: Heat paprika in a sauce pan over low heat, until it starts to smoke. Do not let it burn. Pour in oil, heat. Remove from heat. When cooled, pour into a squirt bottle and store in fridge. When ready to use, nuke for about 20 seconds to liquify. Serve with a sprinkling of grated nutmeg, freshly ground pepper, chopped fresh parsley and tarragon, and a drizzling of hot paprika infused oil.