Recipe: Appetizing Low fat healthy clam chowder

Low fat healthy clam chowder. Recipe courtesy of Food Network Kitchen. Categories: Chowder Clam Recipes Shellfish Recipes Low-Fat Gluten Free. This is my easy recipe for clam chowder.

Nutritional information, Weight Watcher points and photograph included. Love this healthier version of my favorite decadent soup > Low Fat Clam Chowder. The classic clam chowder recipe got reinvented, but it still maintains all that bacon and its creamy taste without, well, all that extra cream. You can Have Low fat healthy clam chowder using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Low fat healthy clam chowder

1. Lets Go Prepare of chopped clams (approximately 6.5 ounces).
2. Lets Go Prepare of parsnip.
3. It's of medium potato or 2 small potatoes.
4. What You needis of small carrot.
5. Lets Go Prepare of celery.
6. Lets Go Prepare of bell pepper.
7. Lets Go Prepare of salt.
8. It's of paprika.
9. Lets Go Prepare of white pepper.
10. Lets Go Prepare of a bay leaf.
11. Lets Go Prepare of dried thyme.
12. It's of garlic powder.
13. Lets Go Prepare of unsweetened soy milk or nonfat milk.
14. Lets Go Prepare of Fresh curly parsley to garnish.
15. What You needis of Sourdough bread.

Say goodbye to all that cream with our low-calorie version of the soup. This lighter Clam Chowder, full of canned clams, potatoes, and corn, is still creamy but with less fat than most other versions. This thick and creamy chowder is lighter and healthier than most traditional clam chowders. For some other chowder recipes, try my Creamy Roasted Cauliflower.

Low fat healthy clam chowder instructions

1. Wash, peel and chop the parsnip. Place in a pot with water and boil until soft..
2. Purée the parsnips with an immersion blender and pour back into the pan..
3. Wash, peel and chop the carrots. Wash and chop the potatoes. Add to the pan along with salt, herbs and spices. Open and drain liquid from clams into a bowl. Add to pot..
4. Turn stove on medium low and simmer for about 5 minutes until the carrots and potatoes are a little soft. Stir frequently..
5. When the carrots and potatoes are about half cooked, add chopped celery and peppers. Cook until all veggies are soft. Remove pan from heat and add soy milk and clams..
6. Remove bay leaf. Garnish with chopped fresh parsley, serve with crusty sourdough bread and enjoy..

Healthier Clam Chowder Recipe with A Healthy Life For Me. We were in Mexico over New Years and we went to one of those prepaid New Years parties I substituted the bacon for turkey bacon which is lower in calories, fat and sodium, used lower sodium chicken broth and I used half in half in place of. A few smart swaps make it possible. In this healthy clam chowder recipe, traditional heavy cream is replaced with milk and flour-thickened clam juice and we keep sodium amounts reasonable with lower-sodium clam juice instead of higher-sodium broths. This low carb clam chowder recipe is one of the easiest recipes I have ever posted on the blog.