Oct24

The Best Crab Soup Recipe

by tanis
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Rich and creamy crab and seafood chowder

The Best Crab Soup

I make good seafood chowder. I say this with full confidence. I mean seriously -my chowder is the best. It’s a curse, sometimes, because I can never go over to your house when you are serving chowder and be satisfied.

You might think you make good chowder. We could arm wrestle. Odds are you would beat me, but in the end my seafood chowder will still be better than yours.

Unless, of course, you have been following my crab chowder recipes. It’s really not hard to make and once you have the basics down, there really isn’t much you could do to screw it up.

I experiment all the time. I never follow a recipe; I make it up as I go. Usually what’s in my fridge determines what goes into my chowder.

Tonight, for example, I didn’t have any fish stock so I used some oyster nectar. It was a bit of a gamble, but like I said before there really isn’t much you can do to screw it up, once you have the basics. My soup was delicious.

 

Here are the basics:

  1. ½ of an onion –it can be red, yellow or white, shallots work as do the whites of green onion
  2. Butter
  3. Fish stock
  4. Cream –I always use light cream

You absolutely must fry the onion in butter until it is browning.

The rest is up to you to experiment with. Sometimes I don’t use crabmeat. Shhhhh! don’t tell anyone.

Here’s what I had in my fridge tonight that I made seafood chowder out of.

 

The Best Crab Soup Recipe

Ingredients:

  • ½ onion (chopped)
  • 2 Tablespoons of butter
  • 2 carrots (chopped)
  • 2 stalks of celery (chopped)
  • 2 broccoli ends (chopped)
  • 1 large zucchini (chopped)
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 4 cups of water
  • Old Bay seasoning (to taste)
  • Fresh ground pepper
  • 1 jar of clam juice
  • Left over oyster nectar (optional)
  • ½ cup of frozen cooked muscles (shelled)
  • 2 frozen (raw) cod pieces
  • ½ cup of shrimp
  • ½ cup of frozen snow crab meat
  • 1 ½ cups of light cream

 

Method to the Rad-ness:

In a frying pan add the onions and butter and fry on medium until the onions are brown.

While the onions are frying get a large pot and add the carrots, celery, broccoli ends and garlic with the water and boil on high until the carrots are soft (usually about 5 minutes). Add the onions and zucchini; boil for 4-5 minutes.

Add all the seafood along with the clam juice and oyster nectar (optional). Once all the seafood is cooked reduce the heat to low-medium and add the cream. Let the pot simmer for 5 minutes, but never let it boil once you have added the cream.

 

 

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I make good seafood chowder. I say this with full confidence. I mean seriously -my chowder is the best. It’s a curse, sometimes, because I can never go over to your house when you are serving chowder and be satisfied
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Ingredients
  • ½ onion (chopped)
  • 2 Tablespoons of butter
  • 2 carrots (chopped)
  • 2 stalks of celery (chopped)
  • 2 broccoli ends (chopped)
  • 1 large zucchini (chopped)
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 4 cups of water
  • Old Bay seasoning (to taste)
  • Fresh ground pepper
  • 1 jar of clam juice
  • Left over oyster nectar (optional)
  • ½ cup of frozen cooked muscles (shelled)
  • 2 frozen (raw) cod pieces
  • ½ cup of shrimp
  • ½ cup of frozen snow crab meat
  • 1 ½ cups of light cream
Method to the Rad-ness
  1. In a frying pan add the onions and butter and fry on medium until the onions are brown.
  2. While the onions are frying get a large pot and add the carrots, celery, broccoli ends and garlic with the water and boil on high until the carrots are soft (usually about 5 minutes). Add the onions and zucchini; boil for 4-5 minutes.
  3. Add all the seafood along with the clam juice and oyster nectar (optional). Once all the seafood is cooked reduce the heat to low-medium and add the cream. Let the pot simmer for 5 minutes, but never let it boil once you have added the cream.

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