Fast and easy holiday recipes: Great northern chowder recipe

This nourishing Great Northern chowder recipe combines spicy heat and warming earthiness with Great Northern beans, fresh herbs and garlic - a healthy family meal.

 

Serves 6

INGREDIENTS:

8 oz. Great Northern beans

6 cups water

1 large red onion, finely chopped

4 celery sticks, thinly sliced

3 potatoes, peeled and diced

2 tbsp. fresh garden herbs, finely chopped (chervil, parsley, chives, rosemary, opal basil) 1 large bay leaf

1 large clove elephant garlic, crushed

1 tsp. Jamaican allspice

1 cup half and half cream

3 cloves

2 tsp. salt

3 tsp. coarsely ground black pepper

METHOD:

Bring water to a boil in a deep pan. Add beans, onion, celery sticks, potatoes, garden herbs, bay leaf, elephant garlic, allspice, cloves, salt and black pepper. Boil rapidly for 15 minutes until frothy. Remove froth with a spoon and discard.

Reduce heat and simmer for 2 hours until smooth. Stir in cream and blend until smooth. Serve red hot with poppy seed sourdough bread.



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