Clam Chowder

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 4 -6 slices bacon
• 1/2 chopped onion
• 1 chopped carrot
• chopped broccoli
• chopped celery
• 1/2 cup margarine
• 1 (6 1/2 ounce) can clams
• 1/2 cup flour
• 4 cups milk
• salt (to taste)
• pepper (to taste)
• garlic salt (to taste)
• 2 chicken bouillon cubes
• 3 potatoes

Recipe

• 1 peel and cube potatoes. in a pot, cover potatoes with water and boil until you can easily pierce them with a fork.
• 2 while potatoes cook, use a skillet to fry bacon until crisp. remove bacon, leaving the bacon grease in the pan, and crumble it. set aside bacon pieces.
• 3 put vegetables into bacon grease with margarine and saute. (for those with vegetable haters, this is a great opportunity to use the food processor to chop vegetables they don't like and still include them in the soup). add flour to vege mixture and heat up.
• 4 when potatoes are done, drain water and add vege mixture to pot.
• 5 add milk, boullion, clam juice, salt, pepper and garlic salt. boil to thicken. (add milk to thin or add a mixture of milk and flour to thicken).
• 6 add clams and bacon and heat through.
• 7 enjoy!