Best Maine Style Clam Chowder Recipes

MAINE STYLE CLAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• 1. Using a deep saucepan, fry salt pork or bacon slowly. Remove and add diced onion. Cook on low heat until onion is soft. Add clam juice, diced raw potato and enough black pepper to satisfy your taste. Cover pan, bring to steaming point,lower heat and cook at least 15 minutes.
• 2. Remove cover, add minced clams, stir to mix. Cook about 10 minutes with cover off, allowing clams to simmer along in cooked potato mixture.
• 3. Add milk and butter and heat to serving point. Do not boil. Taste for seasoning and add salt and more pepper as needed.

KETO CHOW CHOWDER (MAINE STYLE CLAM CHOWDER)

Steps:

• In water, boil cauliflower broken into about 1" squares until fork soft, but not so soft that they will pulverize. The idea is to be as soft as the potatoes are normally in chowder. Keep cauliflower warm for later.
• Melt 2 tbsp of butter in a soup pot.
• Squeeze the contents of two Keto Chow fish oil capsules into the pot and discard the shells.
• Cut bacon into small pieces about 1/2" square. Add the sliced bacon to the pot and cook under high heat stirring often. Cook bacon until it is partway finished. The bacon should not be crispy. It should still be soft
• Sprinkle with salt and pepper and 2 tsp of granulated or powdered onion. Stir until mixed.
• Open can of whole clams - DO NOT DRAIN. Drain the liquid from the clams into the bacon, fat, and butter and bring to a boil. Stir to deglaze the pan.
• Add heavy whipping cream and 1/2 cup of cold water.
• Mix 1 packet or scoop of Keto Chow Chicken Soup in a different container with warm water until fully mixed by whatever method you prefer.
• Add the Keto Chow mixture to the pot and heat under medium heat until it almost boils.
• Add the cauliflower to the chowder and discard the water used for the cauliflower. Add the clams. Bring almost to a boil and remove from heat. Gently stir trying not to break the clams and cauliflower. Salt and pepper to taste.