The Newfoundland Seafood Chowder Recipe

Sautéed tiger prawns, salmon, and sea scallops are mixed with a thick and creamy soup made up of butter, onions, garlic, saffron fish stock, whipping cream, celery, rutabaga, carrot, sweet potato, cream cheese, flour, dill, chives, and pepper in this very rich and mouthwatering seafood chowder from Newfoundland.

Ingredients:

¼ lbs Unsalted Butter

1/2 Red Onion, diced

2 Cloves of Garlic, Minced

1 ½ litres of saffron fish stock (or vegetable stock)

1 ½ tablespoons olive oil

6 Tiger Prawns, peeled and deveined

4 large fresh sea scallops

3oz Wild Sockeye Salmon

¾ cup 35% Whipping Cream

1/3 Cup Celery

1/3 Cup Rutabaga

1/3 Cup carrot

1/3 cup sweet potato

1/2 cup cream cheese

½ cup flour

1 tsp finely chopped dill

1 tsp finely sliced chives.

Salt and Pepper

Directions:

1. Melt butter in a large pot and add diced onion and minced garlic. Sweat onion and garlic for 3 to 4 minutes. Add flour to make a roux. Stir, until the consistency is a nice thick paste. Add saffron fish stock.

2. Heat 1 ½ tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil in a pan, and quick sauté the shrimp, scallops and salmon. Add whipping cream, and leave it in the pan, until the seafood and cream gets warm.

3. Add celery, rutabaga, carrot and sweet potatoes to the stock. Stir in the cream cheese, until chowder is nice and thick. Add the warm cream and seafood mix. Stir. Let the chowder simmer for another 5 or 6 minutes. Add dill and chopped chives. Season with salt and pepper.