Stone Crab Claw Chowder Recipes

CRAB CHOWDER

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large pot over medium heat. Cook and stir onion, celery, thyme, salt, and pepper in hot butter until onion and celery start to soften, about 5 minutes. Stir potatoes, milk, broth, cream, and clam juice into onion mixture. Bring to a simmer; cook until potatoes are soft, about 10 minutes.
• Pour broth mixture into a blender no more than half full. Cover and hold lid down; pulse a few times before leaving on to blend. Puree in batches until smooth. Return pureed soup to pot and stir in crabmeat. Cook until soup is hot and crab is heated through, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.

CORN AND CRAB CHOWDER

Steps:

• Heat a deep pot over moderate heat. Add oil and butter. As you chop your veggies, add them to the pot: potatoes, celery, onion, and red bell pepper. Add bay leaf to the pot. Season vegetables with salt and pepper and Old Bay seasoning. Saute veggies 5 minutes, then sprinkle in flour. Cook flour 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Stir in broth and combine. Stir in milk and combine. Bring soup up to a bubble. Add corn and crab meat and simmer soup 5 minutes. Adjust the soup seasonings. Remove bay leaf. Ladle soup into bread bowls or soup bowls and top with oyster crackers, hot sauce and sliced scallions.

CHRISSY'S CRAB CHOWDER

Steps:

• In medium soup pot, saute the onion and celery on medium heat, with butter, until translucent, about 2 minutes. Turn heat to low, add flour, and mix well until pasty. Using a whisk, stirring slowly, add soft cooked bacon, diced cooked potatoes, parsley, paprika, garlic salt, celery salt, white pepper, seafood seasoning, and salt and pepper, to taste. Mix, and then slowly add the milk and cream, stirring constantly. Add the corn, and finally, gently fold in the crabmeat. Stir slowly. Serve hot.

CRAB AND CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, saute onion in butter until tender. Add flour; cook and stir until thick and bubbly. Gradually add milk; cook and stir until thickened. Add remaining ingredients. Cover and simmer until vegetables are tender, about 35-40 minutes. Remove bay leaf before serving.

CRAB CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, saute the mushrooms, celery and onion in butter until tender. Stir in flour until blended; gradually add milk. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. , Add the crab, broth, potatoes, corn, salt, dill and pepper. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10 minutes or until heated through. Stir in sherry.

CRAB CHOWDER

Steps:

• Chop bacon and in a 2-quart heavy saucepan cook over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until crisp.
• Transfer bacon with a slotted spoon to paper towels to drain, reserving fat in pan.
• While bacon is cooking, cut onion into 1/4-inch dice.
• Peel potatoes and cut into 1/4-inch dice.
• Stir onion, potatoes, and water into bacon fat and simmer, covered, until potatoes are tender and most of water is evaporated, about 15 minutes.
• While mixture is simmering, pick over crab meat, removing any bits of shell and cartilage.
• Stir milk and cayenne into mixture and return just to a simmer.
• Add crab and salt and pepper to taste and bring chowder to a simmer.
• Serve chowder garnished with parsley and bacon.

EASY CORN AND CRAB CHOWDER

Steps:

• Wrap potato cubes in plastic wrap, and microwave for 30 seconds. Set aside.
• In a saute pan, cook bacon over medium heat until heated through, and add chopped onions. Cook and stir until onions are clear. Stir in crab meat and parsley flakes. Set aside.
• Meanwhile, melt butter in a large stock pot over low heat. Whisk in flour until mixture becomes creamy and takes on a eggshell color. Continue to cook for a few more minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in wine. Dissolve chicken bouillon in milk; when the flour mixture is crumbly, slowly whisk in the milk. Mix well in order to eliminate all lumps.
• When the mixture is creamy and hot, stir in bacon mixture, cubed potatoes, and creamed corn. Season with salt and pepper to taste, and simmer for 10 minutes.
• For a creamy curry variation add 2 tablespoons curry powder after adding the wine to the flour mixture, and substitute cooked, cubed chicken for the bacon.

JOE'S STONE CRAB MANHATTAN CLAM CHOWDER RECIPE

Steps:

• Place a large kettle, pot or dutch oven over low heat.
• Add salt pork. Brown salt pork, stirring, until golden, about 20 minutes.
• Remove pork to a plate. Set aside briefly.
• Pour grease into a heat-proof measuring cup. Pour 2 tablespoons back into kettle. Discard the excess or keep for another use.
• Put cooked salt pork back in kettle.
• Add onions, carrots and celery. Increase heat to medium low and cook, stirring occasionally, until they begin to soften and become fragrant, about 10 minutes.
• Add garlic. Cook, stirring, for 2 minutes longer.
• Drain clams, reserving their liquid. Set clams aside.
• Place clam juice in a large bowl or pitcher. Add bottled clam juice and the liquid from the canned tomatoes.
• Measure clam/tomato liquid. Add enough cold water, if needed, to make a total of 7 cups.
• Add this liquid and the tomatoes to the vegetables. Stir to break up the tomatoes.
• Stir in the tomato paste, ketchup, Kitchen Bouquet and a pinch of salt and pepper. Simmer, uncovered, for 45 minutes.
• Add potatoes. Simmer, uncovered, until the potatoes are tender, about 25 minutes longer.
• Add reserved chopped clams and the green pepper to the soup. Simmer 5 minutes longer. Stir the flour and cold water mixture into the simmering soup. Simmer 2 minutes longer.
• Taste. Adjust salt and pepper, if needed.
• Serve hot.

STONE CRAB CLAW CHOWDER

Steps:

• Take a large pot and over medium heat sweat the onions, carrots and celery for approximately 5 minutes, until the onion is transparent. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Add the potatoes, clam juice and water to cover the vegies. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to simmer until potatoes are cooked. Raise the temperature to medium to start the stew boiling. Add the scallops, and cook until just done. Turn off the heat. Add the shrimp and crab claws, cover and let steam for three or four minutes. The shrimp should cook without becoming tough. Stir in the coconut milk over a low heat. Check the seasoning and adjust. Just before serving, stir in the diced jalapeno and the juice of the lime. Garnish bowls with cilantro. Serve with slices of French Bread.

JULIE'S CLAM CRAB CHOWDER (WHITE)

Steps:

• In a 3-quart dutch oven fry bacon until crisp and crumbles easily. (Remove bacon and set aside).
• Saute onion in bacon fat until tender.
• Add water, clam juice, potatoes and cook until potatoes are tender.
• (Do not drain).
• Add heavy cream, half-and-half and milk stirring frequently so it doesn't scorch.
• Heat to steaming (do not boil).
• Add clams w/juice, crab, bacon, butter, salt and pepper and cook for 5 minutes more stirring frequently.
• To Reheat: Only reheat as much as you can eat. Don't reheat the whole pot.

CRAB-CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• Prepare grill (moderately high heat).
• Brush corn with olive oil. Grill ears until kernels soften and develop grill marks, about 15 minutes. Remove from heat. When cool enough to handle, use large knife to cut kernels from cobs. Set aside.
• In heavy, large pot over moderate heat, sauté bacon until crisp, about 14 to 16 minutes. Add onions, garlic, shallots, celery, and bay leaves and sauté until translucent, about 7 to 9 minutes. Add butter and heat until melted, less than 1 minute. Using wooden spoon, stir in flour and cook, stirring constantly, until smooth, about 3 minutes. Lower heat to moderately low and continue to cook, stirring constantly, until paste is color of peanut butter, about 6 minutes.
• Whisk in milk and cream, then add potatoes. Raise heat to high and bring to simmer, then reduce heat to moderately low and simmer, uncovered, until soup thickens and potatoes are tender, about 17 to 19 minutes.
• Stir in maple syrup, thyme, basil, and chives. Gently stir in crab meat, corn, salt, and pepper. Serve immediately.