Lox Chowder Recipes

LOX CHOWDER

Steps:

• Melt the butter with the oil in a large, heavy-bottomed pot set over medium heat. Add leek, carrot and celery, and cook until the vegetables have softened, 5 to 10 minutes. Add the garlic, potato and thyme, and cook until the garlic is fragrant, an additional 2 or 3 minutes.
• Sprinkle the flour over the vegetable mixture and stir to combine, then cook, stirring often, for approximately 5 minutes, making sure not to scorch the bottom of the pan.
• Add the wine, chicken stock and bay leaf, and bring mixture to a simmer. After 10 minutes or so, stir in the milk, and return to a simmer. Cook until the potatoes are tender, approximately 25 minutes. Add the salmon and stir gently, allowing the fish to warm but making sure that the mixture does not boil.
• Remove the bay leaf and discard. Add the cream, then stir to combine and heat through. Season to taste with pepper. Garnish with minced chives.

GRANDPA SEAMONE'S 'LOBSTER CHOWDER'

Steps:

• Place potatoes and onion into a large saucepan and cover with salted water. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until the potatoes are tender, about 10 minutes. Drain and return to the saucepan.
• While the potatoes are simmering, melt half of the butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Stir in the cubed lobster, and cook until the edges begin to turn golden, about 5 minutes. Once the potatoes have been drained and returned to the saucepan, stir in the remaining butter, lobster, cream, milk, and sugar. Return to the heat, and cook until hot, stirring occasionally. Once hot, season to taste with salt and pepper and serve.

LOX CHOWDER

Steps:

• In your favorite soup pot, melt the butter over medium heat.
• Add onions and cook until soft and golden, about 10-15 minutes.
• (You want the onions to be slightly brown, but not black!) Add the drained lox and chopped dill.
• Cook 3 minutes, then add the flour and stir well.
• If it looks like a lox-paste mixture, don't worry, that's how it's supposed to be.
• While stirring the lox mixture, gradually add the broth.
• Add potatoes, spinach, salt, and pepper.
• Turn up heat until mixture boils, then reduce heat to medium/low and simmer for 20 minutes.
• Add milk.
• Simmer 5 more minutes.
• Cut the cream cheese into small pieces (1 oz. or 1/2 oz works best).
• Stir each piece into the soup, one at a time, until each piece has melted into the soup.
• When the soup is completely smooth, add the nutmeg, wine, and lemon juice.
• Ladle into bowls and enjoy!

HOMEMADE LOX

Steps:

• Rinse salmon with water; pat dry with paper towels.
• Mix salt and sugar together in a bowl. Lay out a piece of plastic wrap. Pour half of the salt mixture onto the plastic wrap; lay salmon on top. Cover salmon with remaining salt mixture.
• Fold plastic wrap around salmon until secure; wrap a second layer of plastic wrap around salmon. Transfer to a 9x9-inch baking pan; cover with an 8x8-inch baking pan. Place a heavy object onto the smaller baking pan to weigh salmon down. Cure in the refrigerator until salmon's surface becomes silky, about 48 hours.
• Combine water and ice in a bowl. Mix water and 3 drops liquid smoke together in a bowl. Place salmon into liquid smoke mixture to rinse. Submerge into ice bath for 30 minutes. Repeat rinsing and submerging 2 more times, adding 3 drops of liquid smoke to the rinse water each time.
• Dry salmon with paper towels. Cut with a sharp knife staring from the thin edge of the salmon and cutting toward the thick edge.