Seafood Chowder

Seafood Chowder
By: Lee Holmes

Say “chow” to my creamy chowder full of delicious flavours and fibre-rich vegetables. It’s the perfect one-pot wonder for mid-week meals.

Recipe

Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free

Ingredients

1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
2 brown onions, finely chopped
2 celery stalks, thinly sliced
1 garlic clove, crushed
400mL tin coconut cream
500mL good-quality fish stock
350g sweet potato peeled and cut into 1cm cubes or spiralised
150g fresh peas or thawed frozen peas
500g firm white fish, such as perch or cod, pin-boned, skin removed & cut into large chunks
24 mussels, scrubbed well, beards removed
Salt & pepper, to taste
2 tbsp chopped flat-leaf parsley, to garnish

Method

Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Sauté the onion for 3 mins or until it starts to soften, then add the celery and garlic and cook for a further 1–2 mins.
Stir in the coconut cream, stock and sweet potato. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 20 mins or until the sweet potato is soft when pierced with a fork. (If using spiralised sweet potato, add for the last 5 mins of cooking.)
Stir in the peas and fish and cook for 3 mins or until the fish is just opaque.
Add the mussels and cook for a further 3 mins or until the mussels have popped open. Discard any that remain closed.
Season to taste with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Serve in deep bowls, with the parsley scattered over.

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Lee Holmes
Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.