Creative and delectable homemade meals like this chowder are possible each night of the week when your pantry is filled with staple canned foods like canned clams.
| Prep Time: | 5 mins |
| Cook Time: | 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 20 mins |
| Servings: | 2 |
| Yield: | 2 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 strips bacon strips, chopped
- 2 stalks celery, diced
- 1 small onion, diced
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1 (14.5 ounce) can diced potatoes, drained
- 1 (10.5 ounce) can clam juice
- 1 (6.5 ounce) can chopped clams
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1 pinch Salt to taste
- 1 pinch Ground white pepper to taste
- 1 cup Oyster crackers
Instructions
- In 3-quart saucepan over medium heat, cook bacon until crisp, about 5 minutes; remove to paper towels.
- In drippings remaining in saucepan over medium heat, cook celery and onions until softened, about 5 minutes. Stir in flour; cook 1 minute.
- Add potatoes, clam juice, clams with their liquid and milk. Over high heat, heat to boiling. Reduce heat to low; simmer 10 minutes to blend flavors. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Garnish with bacon. Serve with oyster crackers if desired.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 676 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 70 g |
| Cholesterol | 95 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 6 g |
| Protein | 39 g |
| Saturated Fat | 8 g |
| Sodium | 2176 mg |
| Sugars | 10 g |
| Fat | 26 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Tastes great, I would not change a thing about the recipe. I will be making it several times this winter. Thanks for sharing!
Five stars with these changes! After reading reviews about broth thickness and with what I thought would work best, here’s the small changes I made and it was amazing. I wanted to feed 3 pple and have lots of clams in it so this ended up being the perfect amount with a full bowl leftover. I increased the bacon strips & celery stalks to 3 each instead of 2. I went with fresh potato using 3 medium Yukon gold peeled and cubed bite size. I completely omitted the can of clam juice, using instead 3 cans of chopped clams with all their juices. I did 2 tbsp flour instead of 1 and I used half n half (half milk/half cream) in place of the milk. I thought it might take longer to cook the potatoes from fresh, but it was ready in just 10 minutes on simmer! It was easy delicious and the perfect amount and consistency. And of course we topped it with a little shredded cheese along with the bacon crumbles. SOOOO GOOD you guys! Will be keeping this slightly altered recipe in rotation. Far and away better than the canned or pre-made stuff!
I had taken out shrimps and scallops for dinner and my mom wanted soup tonight, I figured seafood chowder it is! so I only had to run out for clams and half and half . I used seafood stock since I had some instead to clam juice and I added diced carrots. I used both half and half and milk to make it richer and seasoned with old bay. Mommy approved!
Oh my, this is so good! The only ingredient I added was a tablespoon of cornstarch with the milk. Very creamy! My hubby loved it!
I will probably use 2 cans of clams next time. There WILL be a next time. All canned clam chowder vendors just lost my business. Be prepared to thicken it up with a tbsp of corn starch.
I microwaved two medium potatoes instead of using a can. It made two very generous portions and tasted fantastic.
This chowder for two was just the perfect amount for two people. We had dinner one night and a cup of chowder the next day for lunch. Very easy to make and very delicious!
Very good. I did use half/half,and added 1/2 tsp crushed thyme. So easy too.
This almost the very same way my mom used to make us Clam Chowder. i just omitted the flour as she didn’t use any. i cook the potatoes in the liquid until slightly over cooked then stir in the clams and keep stirring gently which helps break down the potatoes a bit more which ends up thickening the soup! YUM!
Perfect and very easy, was ready in 20 min! It is brothier, than usual. As suggested here, I used real potatoes (red, or yellow), heavy whipping cream instead of milk, and 2 tbs flour. I never made clam chowder before, and following other suggestions, I used 1 green onion, and added some carrots; mostly for the color and texture. Recipe deserves a 5 regardless the changes, because those are my personal opinion 🙂
Was okay except that canned potatoes have a distinctive flavor which permeated the dish and I didn’t care for it. This chowder is brothier than some, just saying. I did like the smooth texture of the broth. I used canned chicken broth instead of clam juice but made no other changes. If I make again I’d cube a big russet and cook 10 minutes longer leaving out the canned potatoes. If I don’t have time, ironically, I’d just heat up a can of clam chowder. Thanks for the recipe.
I tweeked it a bit …I used half and half instead of milk much better than milk…
Very simple to follow and I added a couple of additional ingredients.
Super quick and easy and very good.