Seafood Chowder

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 stalk celery, minced
• 1 small onion, minced
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1/4 teaspoon dried marjoram
• 3 tablespoons flour or 3 tablespoons baking mix (i use buttermilk baking mix)
• 3 1/2 cups milk (or more if you like a thinner soup more milk can be added as needed after soup is completed.)
• 2 cans condensed cream of potato soup (undiluted)
• 1 1/2 lbs shrimp or 1 1/2 lbs scallops or 1 1/2 lbs clams or 1 1/2 lbs crab (whatever you want your soup to be i like to use shrimp, scallops and whole baby clams. i've even use)
• chopped fresh parsley (to garnish)

Recipe

• 1 melt butter in 3-quart saucepan over low heat.
• 2 saute' celery and onion until tender.
• 3 add cayenne pepper, thyme, marjoram and flour or baking mix and stir until smooth.
• 4 add milk and condensed soup and stir until piping hot.
• 5 meanwhile clean and chop seafood as you like.
• 6 i usually halve the shrimp and then cut one half in half and leave the other half whole.
• 7 if using extra large scallops i usually quarter them.
• 8 when soup is piping hot add seafood and stir on medium heat until seafood is cooked through.
• 9 serve in bowls topped with some fresh parsley along with some crusty bread or oyster crackers and a nice salad.