Keto seafood chowder
Elegant layers of flavor combine with flaky, tender chunks of salmon, shrimp, and wilted spinach, giving this cream-based seafood chowder absolute rave reviews. Colorful, beautiful, delicious, easy, and keto! A winner all around.
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Ingredients
- 4 tbsp 4 tbsp butter
- 2 2 garlic clove, mincedgarlic cloves, minced
- 5 oz. 150 g celery stalk, slicedcelery stalks, sliced
- 1 cup 225 ml clam juice
- 1½ cups 350 ml heavy whipping cream
- 2 tsp 2 tsp dried sage or dried thyme
- ½ ½ lemon, juice and zest
- 4 oz. 110 g cream cheese
- 1 lb 450 g salmon or other firm fish, pin bones removed, fillets cut into 1" pieces
- 2 oz. 50 g baby spinach
- 8 oz. 225 g shrimp peeled and deveined
- salt and ground black pepper
- ½ tbsp ½ tbsp red chili pepperred chili peppers
- fresh sage, optional for garnish
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Making low carb simple
Instructions
- Melt butter in a large pot over medium heat.
- Add garlic and celery. Cook for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add clam juice, cream, cream cheese, sage, lemon juice and lemon zest. Let it simmer for about 10 minutes without lid.
- Add the fish and shrimp. Simmer for 3 minutes or until fish is just cooked (should flake easily). Add the baby spinach and stir until wilted.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Garnish with fresh red chili and fresh sage before serving for extra flavor and splash of color.
Tips
As an optional addition, consider adding crushed, dried chili flakes as a garnish on the soup. These add a lovely hot zest to an already delicious soup.
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There are only 3.6g carbs in 100g of clams, so you could use all clams in this recipe as long as you accounted for the carbs.
Raw, as they will cook very quickly. Adding in already cooked shrimp/prawns may result in a rubbery texture.
Add a handful of bacon, Costco has the bags of crumbled bacon, if not chop the raw stuff and add it at the butter and garlic stage. I also decided to put both sage and thyme (I don't measure but I would say 1/2 tsp) and basil, a bit more than the other two as basil is a more forgiving herb, so to speak. If you like it spicy add cayenne at an early stage. Let the heat set in.
Oh yeah, I put the same weight of shrimp to fish ratio. What the hell shrimp has a negligible amount of carbs.
and finally I put some green onion on top after serving in a bowl, looks good and add a subtle additional layer of flavor.
I also added more lemon zest as well during cooking.
But maybe coconut cream! It's high in saturated fat might get close to whipping cream. What the heck, recipes
are meant to be tweaked. Try it!!! Let the group know, you can be our "guinea pig"