Clam Chowder

Name: Clam Chowder
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 4 tomatoes, skinned and chopped; ½ teaspoon thyme; 1 small bottle tomato juice; 1 pint (570 ml) water; Salt and pepper; Oil for cooking; 3 potatoes, cut into ½ in (1 cm) cubes; 1 onion, chopped; ¼ teaspoon cayenne, for garnish; 1 lb (450 g) fresh clams, without shells (it is all right to buy a tin of clams and use the juice as well); 6 tablespoons double cream, for garnish; 4 oz (110 g) salt pork, diced

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Floyd on Fish

By Keith Floyd

Published 1985

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Make Clam Chowder to Start the Festivities with:

Ingredients

4 oz (110 g) salt pork, diced
Oil for cooking
1 o

Gluten-free
Soup

Method

Fry the salt pork in oil till crisp. Tip the oil into a soup pan and reserve the pork.

Fry the chopped onion in the soup pan until soft, not burnt, then add the tomatoes, potatoes, tomato juice, water, thyme, salt and pepper and bring to the boil. Simmer until the potatoes are tender but not mushy. Stir in the clams and their juice, and the pork pieces, and simmer for another 5 minutes.