New England Keto Clam Chowder

This is a quick New England Style Keto Clam Chowder recipe with just 10g net carbs per serving. It's a creamy festival of fish.

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• ⚓ Chowder Origins
• 💬 Keto Dieters Often Ask
• 🥣 Ingredients
• 📖 Instructions
• 📋 Recipe

"NO SOUP FOR YOU!!" -Seinfeld

Today I made a big pot of Keto Clam Chowder, so naturally, I'm thinking about the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld. He was, of course, the purveyor of the best soup in Manhattan. But he was very picky about his customers. If you upset the Soup Nazi, there was "no soup for you!".

But seafood chowder, let’s discuss it.

As you may or may not know, chowder is a soup made from seafood, with a milk or tomato base. It usually includes vegetables like potatoes, onions, celery, and carrots as well as small pieces of bacon. And while any kind of seafood can go into chowder, the most popular fish to use is clams.

⚓ Chowder Origins

The soup originated in New England in the 1700s, where it was made to warm you up and stick to your bones. Clam chowder took off like gangbusters among sea-faring folk. It even makes an appearance in Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick.

"However, a warm savory steam from the kitchen served to belie the apparently cheerless prospect before us. But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh, sweet friends! hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuit, and salted pork cut up into little flakes; the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt."

It really is a tasty soup, sweet friends.

💬 Keto Dieters Often Ask

🥣 Ingredients

• Bacon- Try and find bacon that is cured without sugar.
• Onion-  Regular onions are fine, but if you use shallots, you can reduce the carb count.  
• Celery-  If celery isn't your thing, then you can skip it or use red bell pepper instead.
• Xanthan Gum- This is one of the secret weapons of the Keto diet.  You can use just a little bit in place of cornstarch or white flour to thicken your soup.  
• Clam Juice-  This comes in a jar by itself. You'll also be using the leftover clam juice from the canned clams.
• Clams-  You can use fresh or canned clams for this Keto Clam Chowder.  
• Daikon Radishes- Daikon radishes are great substitutes for potatoes.  If you can’t find daikon radishes at your local grocery store, you can use regular radishes or chopped cauliflower.
• Bay Leaf-  This adds a classic flavor to the clam chowder.  
• Dried Thyme-  You can use fresh thyme instead if you don't mind pulling all those tiny leaves off of the stems.  Use 1 teaspoon instead of ¼ teaspoon of dried thyme.  
• Heavy Whipping Cream-  This adds a nice creaminess to the soup.  If you are dairy-free, you can use canned coconut milk.  I recommend using cream though, for a traditional cream-based soup.  
• Fresh Parsley-  This acts as a bright green pop of color, as well as a fresh herby taste.  

If you like this low carb soup, then you might like these recipes for Keto Mushroom Soup, Keto Gumbo, Tomato Soup or Ramen Noodle Soup.

📖 Instructions

1. Fry bacon in a large skillet or Dutch Oven over medium heat until crispy, 5-6 minutes. Remove from the pan and drain oil on paper towels.
2. Add onion and celery and cook until softened, 5 minutes.
3. Stir in clam juice, reserved clam juice, water, bay leaf, thyme, daikon radish or cauliflower, salt, and pepper.
4. Once the broth is heated through, take out ½ cup broth and dissolve xanthan gum in it. Return to the soup pan and mix well.
5. Bring to a boil, lower heat and simmer for 10 minutes until radish or cauliflower is tender and soup has thickened.
6. Add bacon, cream, clams, and parsley to the pan and bring back to a simmer.
7. Serve as soon as the soup is heated through.

👩‍🍳 And that’s all she wrote.

It takes about 40 minutes to whip up a pot of gluten-free Keto Clam Chowder that has only 360 calories and 10g net carbs per bowl. And just like in the days of yore, it'll warm you up and stick to your bones. 

So here you go, some soup for you!😉  

Ok, chow for now!

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