Shelly's Recipe

SEAFOOD CHOWDER

Category: Chowders

1/4 pound salt pork, diced
2 medium onions, diced
2 to 3 leeks, sliced (white part only)
1 to 2 tbsp. flour
4 cups fresh fish stock
3 boiling potatoes, cut in 1/2 inch cubes
4 clams, diced
2 1/2 pounds lobster meat
1 pound large shrimp, peeled and de-veined
1 to 2 pounds fish, such as cod
1 pound sea scallops
1 to 2 cups half and half
Chopped parsley and pats of butter for garnish

In large soup kettle, render the salt pork. Add the onions and leeks to the pot until clarified. Add the flour and continue to cook for a minute or so. Add the stock and potatoes and bring to a boil. Boil until potatoes are tender, then add the seafood in this order:

Fish, cook for 2 minutes shrimp and scallops, cook for 2 minutes then clams, cook for one minute

Finally, the lobster, cook for 2 minutes add cream --- slowly so as to not curdle. To ensure that the cream will not curdle, heat cream in microwave for a minute or so.

Serve and garnish with parsley and a pat of butter.