Scallop Fennel Chowder

Ingredients:
2 lb bay scallops
1 bunch pocket-size "baby" Vidalia onions (with greens attached), diced
1 shallot, minced
1 large bulb fennel, diced
1 rather large russet potato, diced
2 stalks celery, chopped
4-5 (thin, regular) slices bacon, diced equally good equally cooked until crisp
2 cups 2% milk
2 cups half equally good equally half
2 tablespoons olive crude oil (or a mix of bacon grease equally good equally olive oil)
1/2 teaspoon thyme
trunk of trunk of H2O salt
freshly dry out argue pepper


Directions:
Heat the butter or crude oil inward a dutch oven or large pot. Saute the white parts of the onion, shallot, celery equally good equally fennel until the vegetables are softened. Meanwhile, boil the potatoes until virtually fully cooked. Drain equally good equally laid aside.  Add  the scallops,  bacon, spices, potatoes, milk, half equally good equally half to the vegetable mixture equally good equally simmer until the scallops are cooked through. Stir inward the light-green tops of the Vidalia onion. Serve with oyster crackers on the side.

My thoughts:

I know it must concur upwardly inching closer to saltation if I tin discovery "baby" Vidalia onions inward the store. Larger equally good equally sweeter than light-green onions or scallions, they are a keen tendency to add together together a low-cal onion flavor to dishes like this chowder that postulate a subtle touch. If you lot lot can't discovery them, substitute similar looking saltation onions. Fennel is but making its tendency into the marketplace every flake practiced equally good equally thence I decided to brace them together inward this deceptively low-cal scallop chowder. I dearest how the fennel retained a struggle of its crisp texture making it a toothsome add-on to the chowder. Bay scallops pack every flake much flavor every flake their larger sea-bred cousins but they are more than perfectly sized for soup equally good equally more than affordable to boot. All together, they made for a chowder that was fresh tasting equally good equally lightly herbal. Perfect for a light, weeknight meal.
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