Seafood Chowder and Biscuits
Growing up on the coast in a fishing family comes with it's perks, specifically seafood! Lobster, Haddock, Halibut, Swordfish, Shrimp, Mussles, and the list goes on and on. I prefer to eat my seafood straight up without fancy bacon or cream in it's natural form but I have developed a LOVE for Seafood Chowder. Not your run of the mill chowder but thick, stew like chowder packed full of lots of seafood. And what goes better with Seafood Chowder than a delicious, flaky, buttery biscuit. My mother has passed down to me her tips for a chowder full of all the flavours we love.
From my kitchen to yours:
Nova Scotia Seafood Chowder
Ingredients
2 cups potato, diced
salt and pepper
1 medium haddock fillet, chopped
1 lb. lobster meat, chopped
1 cup scallops, halved
½ cup shrimp, chopped
2 tbsp margarine
½ cup can milk
Directions
In large saucepan heat margarine over medium high heat
Add chopped lobsters and sauté in butter for 5 minutes until mixture turns a rich orange colour
Reduce heat to medium and add remaining seafood and season with salt and pepper.
Cook for another 5 minutes stirring continuously
Add milk and potatoes.
Let chowder simmer for 30 minutes
Biscuits (Makes approximately 1 ½ - 2 dozen biscuits)
Ingredients
4 cups flour
3 tbsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
½ cup margarine, cold
1 egg beaten with milk to make up 2 cups
Directions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees
Line cookie sheet with parchment paper
Shift together flour, baking powder and salt
Using a pastry cutter or hands crumble butter into dry ingredients
Fold egg/milk mixture into batter
Lightly need ingredients together until just incorporated
Turn dough out onto a floured surface and roll out 1” thick
Using cup or circle cookie cutter cut out biscuits and place on lined cookie sheet
Poke top of biscuits with a fork and bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown
When you remove biscuits from oven brush the tops with a little melted butter and sat on a rack to cool.
