Seafood chowder and Soda bread
Seafood chowder and Soda bread

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, seafood chowder and soda bread. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Loaded with different types of fish, this simple chowder recipe stands or falls on the freshness of the ingredients. This seafood chowder recipe is a reproduction of the chowder I discovered on my first trip to Ireland, creamy and packed with large chunks of seafood. Tried many different combinations (including replacing calamari with lobster meat). For seafood, I used fresh sea scallops, fresh haddock, fresh salmon, fresh calamari, frozen pre-cooked shrimp, and canned baby clams.

Seafood chowder and Soda bread is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Seafood chowder and Soda bread is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have seafood chowder and soda bread using 20 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Seafood chowder and Soda bread:
  1. Get 200 g wholemeal bread flour
  2. Prepare 275 g strong white bread flour
  3. Take 1 pinch salt
  4. Prepare 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  5. Make ready 1 egg
  6. Get 200 ml buttermilk
  7. Prepare 1 tsp runny honey
  8. Make ready 1 large potato
  9. Prepare 250 g haddock fillets
  10. Take 250 g pollock or other white fish fillets
  11. Take 1 Bay leaf
  12. Take 600 g milk
  13. Make ready 100 ml single cream
  14. Get 2 onions
  15. Take 100 g muscles or cockles
  16. Prepare 2 cloves garlic
  17. Take 150 g sweetcorn
  18. Make ready 1 handful Runner beans
  19. Get 1 handful parsley
  20. Take Salt and black pepper for Seasoning

Irish Soda Bread is dense, yet soft and has the most incredible crusty exterior. Buttermilk and cold butter are the secret to its delicious success! Serve in bowls with delicious brown bread scones or soda bread. Seafood Chowder is often thought of as complicated and only something for a special occasion.

Instructions to make Seafood chowder and Soda bread:
  1. Preheat the oven at 180C/ 170C fan / gas 4. Measure out both types of flour, a pinch of salt and the bicarbonate of soda into a mixing bowl. Make a well in the middle
  2. Mix the butter milk, egg and honey until we'll combined.
  3. Pour the buttermilk mixture into the well made previously in the dry ingredients. Mix the ingredients together until they form a dough. You may need to add a little water to get all the ingredients to combine, but you do not want a wet dough.
  4. Shape the dough into a ball and place on a baking tray. Dust the top with flour and cut a cross into the ball to about half way down.
  5. Place the bread in the oven and cook for 45 minutes. When done cool on a wire rack.
  6. While the bread bakes cover the potato with water in a saucepan and leave to boil until the potato is soft.
  7. Pour the milk ans cream into the saucepan add the bay leaf and the fish fillets. Bring to the boil and then turn down to a simmer and leave to simmer for about 20 minutes until the fish is cooked, stiring occasionally.
  8. Steam the muscles and cockles in a sauspan with in about 2cm of boiling water for 3-4 minutes with the lid on. Afterwards strain the shellfish.
  9. Finely slice the onions and gently fry in some melted butter until soft. Then peel and crush the garlic cloves and add to the onions. Fry for a further minute.
  10. Then add the drained sweetcorn and chopped runner beans to the onions. Once the potato is cooked. Drain the water ans chop the potato into medium sized chunks and add to the veg. Continue to fry the veg until the runner beans are softening.
  11. Once the fish fillets have cooked remove for the milk and making sure any skin is removed flake the fish into small chunks.
  12. Remove any skin which may have formed on the milk and add the onions and veg to the milk. Simmer for a further 10 minutes.
  13. Add the fish and shellfish to the milk and veg. Season well with salt and pepper and add the parsley. Simmer for a further 10 minutes.
  14. Then serve with you're freshly made soda bread, freshly cracked black pepper and fresh paresly.

Serve in bowls with delicious brown bread scones or soda bread. Seafood Chowder is often thought of as complicated and only something for a special occasion. This soda bread recipe is my personal one and very simple to make. Most homes in Ireland still make this bread daily and all have slight variations in ingredients or baking times. If you have ever traveled to Ireland, this is the soda bread you ate with your seafood chowder, soup, stew and breakfasts!

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