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Hello Food Tuber's. Today I have a stonkin little
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recipe for you. It is my family traditional
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Irish Seafood Chowder. It is totally heartwarming, comforting,
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delicious. This soup was one of my favorite recipes my mom used to make when I was
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growing up. It is total comfort food, and it's a great family little dish.
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Very easy to make. So it starts off by chopping up some onions to give us a
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really great base flavour.
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To start this off, I'm going to sweat down these onions with a good bit of
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Irish salted butter. So get that straight into a pot,
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a nice bit hearty pot, this is a kind of soupy, stewy, chowdery thing so we want to give something
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that's scrumptious and delicious,
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delicious and comforting, and all that wonderful things. So onion goes straight in with all that wonderful
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butter.
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Just add a tiny touch of salt in there to bring out the moisture in the onions, and it will
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give you a wonderful sweetness to those onions. Really special and a great start
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to the base of this soup.
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Once that onion is nice and soft get in some smoked streaky bacon,
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and a little bit of thyme.
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Now while that bacon is cooking out, I'm just going to chop up
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some potatoes. So peel them up and chop them into a nice kind of fine dice.
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Typically you're looking for waxy potatoes or potato that's gonna hold its
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shape when it cooks out in a chowder like this.
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Now that I have all my potatoes beautifully chopped up, come right over here and check this
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out because in the
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bottom of this pan lies the secret of a truly good chowder.
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All those little brown bits that have caramelized at the base of
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the pan that is where all the flavours gonna come from. So make sure you get
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that.
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Once you have it, add in those potatoes straight in on top. Give them a little bit
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of a stir, and come and get excited with all the other flavours that are in there.
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Make them flavour friends. Give it a quick stir and just toss.
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At this point now, when you have your potatoes covered in all that wonderful flavours,
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and saltiness from the bacon, it's time to cook out the potatoes. To do that,
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I have about a litre of fish stock going in here. If you don't want to use fish stock here you
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can
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of course use vegetable stock, and it's a great little alternative.
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For an extra aromatic dimension add in a bay leaf.
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Bring all that liquid up to the boil and potatoes are now gonna cook
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just until they're tender when you pierce them with a fork. So it's about twelve minutes or so.
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Whilst those potatoes are cooking away just grab a tiny touch of sea salt and black pepper
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and season it up. To give wonderful richness to the soup, once the potatoes are
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nice and cooked, add some cream in here and turn down the heat and just
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trickle this through. It turns this very kind of simple little soup
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into something rich and indulgent. Now the fish I'm using today, and it's totally up to you
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what you use
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I'm using some smoked un-dyed haddock, and it really adds some
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great intense smoky flavour to your chowder.
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I've also got some cod and some salmon, but it's really up to you
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whatever fish you want to use in here. So I'm going to start off by adding in my mussels.
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Give them a quick stir through and then just
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over-the-top get all that wonderful fish in there as well.
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At this point now, once the fish is in there don't be tempted to stir it around
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too much.
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Just get them in straight on and let it cook for a few minutes. Just until the fish is nice and firm.
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My fish has had it's time to cook and now it's time
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for the big seafood chowder reveal. So bring it over,
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open it up,
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look at that! Steamy, fishy goodness!
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You've gotta try this recipe. This is a real
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real winner and now I can't resit but to jump in there,
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and taste it, because it has the most beautiful smoky smell wafting around the
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kitchen right now.
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And it totally delivers.
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Creamy, salty, sweet and really rich.
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I want you to give this a go, but if you are looking for the recipe it is in the box
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below.
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There is lots and lots of brilliant recipes right here
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on Food Tube. So, of course I know that you're going to check them out.
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We'll see you soon guys.