Island Manner Salmon Chowder

Ingredients:
iii slices thick cutting bacon
fifteen oz canned diced tomatoes
five 1/2 cups fish stock
1 lb cooked salmon, cutting into chunks
ii cups peeled, diced white potatoes
3/4 loving cup chopped Italian parsley
1/4 loving cup nighttime rum, optional
ii carrot, diced
ii stalks celery, diced
ii cloves garlic, minced
1 onion, chopped
1 large shallot, minced
1 dark-green onion, diced
1 or ii Scotch Bonnet pepper(s), minced
1 bay leaf
iii tablespoons fresh thyme leaves
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1/8 teaspoon cloves

Directions:
Cook the bacon inwards a skillet until crisp. Drain on a newspaper towel lined plate. Crumble the bacon together with ready aside. In a large pot, saute the onion, shallot, garlic, pepper, potatoes, celery together with carrot inwards a pair tablespoons of bacon grease until the onions are softened together with translucent. Add the tomato, spices, bacon, broth, Worcestershire sauce together with rum. Bring to a boil together with thence trim the heat. Simmer until the potatoes are nearly fork tender. Stir inwards the thyme, dark-green onion together with parsley together with salmon. Cook until the salmon is heated through. Discard the bay foliage prior to serving.

My thoughts:

This recipe was somewhat inspired yesteryear Bermuda's fish chowder together with the conch chowders pop inwards the Caribbean. I've been researching vacations (oh, for a intermission from cooking together with dish washing) together with of course, that involves researching the local cuisines. While salmon isn't the traditional fish establish inwards these local chowders, the fact that I had a pound of it leftover later around other repast made me hand it ago. It worked actually well! Salmon is "meaty" plenty that it doesn't breakdown inwards the soup together with its richness contrasted good alongside the lush spice of the broth. It is every bit good the perfect chowder every bit nosotros creep towards warmer weather, it isn't every bit heavy every bit nearly chowders together with everyone knows spicy foods cool you lot off!