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Seafarer's Slow Cooker Chowder Recipe
Seafarer's Slow Cooker Chowder
Ingredients
- 1 lb (500 g) boneless salt cod or salt haddock fillet(s)
- 3 tbsp (45 mL) butter
- 1 Spanish onion, large white onion or 2 cooking onions, chopped
- 1 large leek, chopped
- 3 carrots, diced
- 3 stalks celery, diced
- 3 or 4 potatoes, peeled and diced
- 1 bay leaf
- Few sprigs fresh thyme, or 1/2 tsp/2 mL dried thyme
- 1/2 tsp (2 mL) white pepper
- Pinch each nutmeg and cayenne pepper
- 1 lb (500 g) peeled deveined shrimp or scallops
- 1/3 cup (75 mL) chopped parsley
- 1 cup (250 mL) whipping cream
- Salt
Preparation
Soak fish at room temperature, changing water several times, for 24 hours. Drain; cut into chunks and place in slow cooker.
In large skillet, melt butter over medium-high heat; sauté onion and leek until softened and some of the onion is golden at edges, about 10 minutes. Scrape into slow cooker; add carrots, celery, potatoes, bay leaf, thyme, white pepper, nutmeg, cayenne and 7 cups/1.75 L water. Cook until vegetables are tender, about 4 hours on high or 8 hours on low.
Remove bay leaf and thyme. Stir in shrimp and parsley; cook on high until shrimp are cooked through, 5 to 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, in saucepan, bring cream to boil; stir into chowder. Add salt to taste.
Makes 8 to 12 servings.
- Serving(s)
- 8 to 12
| Per each of 12 servings: about | |
|---|---|
| Calories | 300 |
| Protein | 33 g |
| Fat (total) | 12 g |
| Sat. Fat | 6 g |
| Carbohydrate | 15 g |
| Fibre | 2 g |
| Cholesterol | 148 mg |
| Sodium | 633 mg |
| Calcium | 11 % RDI |
| Iron | 17 % RDI |
| Vitamin A | 46 % RDI |
| Vitamin C | 15 % RDI |
| Folate | 13 % RDI |
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Source
Homemakers Magazine: November 2007
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