Healthy Seafood Chowder
This Healthy Seafood Chowder is flavorful, creamy, full of delicious seafood and can be table ready in about 45 minutes.
Ingredients
1 tablespoon butter or ghee
1/2 cup finely chopped onion
1 large bulb fennel, cored and sliced (2 1/4 cups)*
1 pound red potatoes, diced
2 cups diagonally sliced carrots
4 bottles (8 ounce each clam juice)**
1 cup water
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground pepper
1/8 teaspoon thyme
1 pound cod fillet, cut into chunks***
1 pound shrimp, peeled and deveined
1/2 cup heavy or whipping cream****
1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
*Can sub fennel with diced celery.
**Can sub clam juice with chicken or seafood broth.
***Use any white fish.
****Sub cream for almond or coconut milk for a lighter, dairy free option.
Steps
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Melt butter or ghee in a large saucepan over medium-low heat. Add onion and fennel; cook, stirring occasionally until tender, about 10 minutes.
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Add potatoes, carrots, clam juice, water, salt, pepper and thyme. Bring to boil; reduce heat, cover and simmer until vegetable are just tender, 10 minutes.
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Add cod and shrimp; simmer, covered, until opaque, 5 minutes.
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Gently stir in cream and heat through (do not boil). Sprinkle with parsley.
Recipe and photo from www.kimscravings.com/seafood-chowder
