New England Seafood Chowder

Hearty and filling meal on its own. Warms your tummy especially on a cold rainy day.Just LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!! :)

1/2 cup butter

2 big onions - finely diced

2 stalk celery - finely diced

1/2 cup plain flour

20 fresh clam -steamed,shelled and keep the juice or use 1 can of canned clams and juice

15 king prawns -shelled and buterflied (boil the shell and keep the juice)

1 cup Dory fish meat cubes ( 2 cm cubes)

2 potatoes (russet is best) -cut into 1 cm cubes . Make sure to soak in water to avoid discolouring)

1 can evaporated milk

1 teaspoon worteshire sauce

1/2 teaspoon thyme

1 teaspoon Italian seasoing /herbs

1 cup water

salt and pepper .

Chopped fresh English parsly for garnishing 

In a saucepan melt the butter. Put in the onion and celery and sweat the vegetables. Do not brown the onion. simply stir for about 7 minutes till the vegetables are soft. Add the flour and stir into a rue. Take off the heat and continue stirring into a paste. Put back on the heat and pour in the clam and prawn juice. Stir into a thick paste. Pour in the water and simmer. Add in the diced potatoes, milk , worstershire sauce,thyme and Italian seasoning . Stir often. Put in clams and other seafood and bring to boil. Simmer for a few minutes If the chowder is too thick simply add hot water. Finally add salt and pepper to taste. 

Serve hot with thin and crispy garlic bread. garnish with some fresh chopped English parsly