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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  North American >> Canadian >> Canadian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. In a medium size frying pan, lightly fry chopped bacon until partially cooked. | 2. Drain and discard fat. | 3. Add chopped onions to bacon and saute' for 5 minutes, DO NOT BROWN, set aside. | 4. In a large cooking pot, add water and bring to boil. | 5. Add chopped carrots, cubed potatoes, salt and pepper. | 6. Puree' tomatoes in a food processor or blender and add to cooking pot. | 7. Add reserved bacon/onion mixture to pot and bring to boil. | 8. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 30 minutes or until carrots and potatoes are tender; DO NOT OVERCOOK. | 9. Add diced celery and ketchup and cook for 5 minutes. | 10. Add clam nectar, baby clams and the liquid and simmer for 5 minutes. | 11. Add milk, stirring constantly while adding and bring to just boil. | 12. Finally, add instant potato flakes, stir well and simmer for 3 minutes. | 13. Adjust seasonings to taste. (Add more instant potato flakes if soup is not thick enough to your liking.). The soup will thicken slightly the following day. | 14. Remove soup from heat and let sit for 15 minutes before serving. | 15. Fresh baby clams may be used. | 16. You will require about 4 pounds of baby clams in the shell. | 17. In a pot, add 2 1/2 cups water and clams. | 18. Cover and bring to boil and cook for 5 to 8 minutes or until all clams are opened. | 19. Discard any clams that DO NOT OPEN. | 20. Save the liquid and pour through a very fine sieve to remove any particles and use the liquid in the soup same as the canned clams. | 21. Extract the clams from the shells and add to soup. | 22. This soup can be canned. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
bacon	1/2		chopped fried lean	18.08	0.1512	1.2752	1.3544
onion	2		chopped	88.0	20.548000000000002	2.42	0.22
water	12	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
carrot	3		peeled diced	88.56	20.6928	2.0088	0.5184
potato	4		peeled cubed	-	-	-	-
sea salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
tomato	28	fluid	canned	-	-	-	-
black pepper	1 1/2	1/2	ground	8.6595	2.2063	0.3585	0.1125
celery rib	4		chopped	-	-	-	-
ketchup	3/4	cup		-	-	-	-
clam juice	14	fluid		-	-	-	-
baby clam	28	fluid	canned	-	-	-	-
milk	4	cups	homogenized	2208.0	53.184	21.984	228.864
potato flake	1 1/2	cups		-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.