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, photo by Emma Shevtzoff
, nutritional review by Franziska Spritzler, RD, CDE
in Recipes, Dinner, Meal 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. (1½ cups) 140 g (325 ml) celery stalk, slicedcelery stalks, sliced
- 1 cup 240 ml clam juice or vegetable stock
- 1½ cups 350 ml heavy whipping cream
- 2 tsp 2 tsp dried sage or dried thyme
- ½ ½ lemon, juice and zestlemons, juice and zest
- 4 oz. (½ cup) 110 g (110 ml) cream cheese
- 1 lb 450 g salmon, boneless fillet or other firm fish, pin bones removed, fillets cut into 1" piecessalmon, boneless fillets or other firm fish, pin bones removed, fillets cut into 1" pieces
- 2 oz. (2 cups) 55 g (425 ml) baby spinach
- 8 oz. 230 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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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.
Tip
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.
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"
Our recipes always list the nutrition information per serving.
Adding broth is a great way to thin a rich savory dish. Be sure to adjust the nutrition information accordingly.
We have not tested this recipe with smoked salmon, but that should be fine!
Listing a serving size would be more inaccurate as different people will find that the soup reduces more or less in different situations. Giving the number of servings is the most accurate way to make sure the listed nutrition information is accurate.
Soup is a great candidate for making extra servings for later in the week. Sometimes a cream base may "break" a little when it is reheated but it will still taste good.
Each serving of this recipe contains 6g net carbs, 69g fat, 37g protein, and 795 calories.
However, we don't recommend counting calories. These articles should be helpful for you!
https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/calories
https://www.dietdoctor.com/common-currency-bodies-not-calories-guess
Awesome! Thanks for sharing your feedback! I hope you feel better soon :)
Thank you for letting us know how much you enjoyed this dish.
Thank you.
That does sound fantastic!
Chicken may work well in this dish.
P.S. Salmon fish is not available easily in India .
Salmon adds protein and fat. You can substitute with any fish you prefer. This dish as written is 78% calories from fat, so even if you choose a leaner fish, you may not need to add anything to compensate for a less fatty fish.
Thank you for sharing your tips, I'm glad you both enjoyed this dish!
In step 2, the cream is included in the list of ingredients to be added.
That's my only complaint: maybe you can buy clam juice as such in the US. In Germany I'd have to open a tin of clams or mussles (hm, probably more than one) but the recipe does not utilise the clams. It would be very wasteful since no recipe in the meal plan uses clams or mussles.
Maybe you could add a substitute for clam juice in the recipe for those outside the US? Or, if clam juice is not the juice in a can of clams, explain it in a footnote?
Thank you for your feedback!
Thank you for your feedback, glad you enjoyed it so much!