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Instant Pot ClamChowder

A thick and creamy chowder with bacon, corn, potatoes, celery and minced clams. Make it fast in your electric pressure cooker!
Course Soup
Cuisine American
Keyword Instant Pot, Soup
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings 8 cups

Ingredients

  • 2 tsp olive oil
  • 1 yellow onion diced
  • 1 cup water
  • 3 medium russet or yellow potatoes peeled and cut into cubes
  • 2 6.5 oz cans minced clams with juice
  • 1 cup frozen corn
  • 3-4 slices bacon
  • 3 celery ribs cut into quarter inch pieces
  • 2 cups milk
  • 1 cup half and half
  • 2 Tbsp melted butter
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • Salt and pepper

Instructions

  1. Turn your Instant Pot the saute setting. Cook the bacon down.  3-4 minutes.  

  2. Add in the onion and saute for about 3-4 minutes, until onions soften.

  3. Add in the water, potatoes, clams with the juice, corn, bacon and celery.

  4. Cover and secure the lid. Make sure valve is set to sealing. Set the manual/pressure cook button to 4 minutes. Once time is up let the pot sit there for 5 minutes (the display with read L0:05). Then move the valve to venting. Remove the lid.

  5. Warm up the milk and half and half in the microwave or on the stove. It should be warm. Stir in the melted butter. Then very slowly whisk in the flour a tablespoon at a time. It should be lump free. Then stir this mixture into the Instant Pot. Turn the Instant Pot to the saute setting. The milk/flour mixture will thicken the chowder in a few minutes. Stir constantly (for about 3 minutes) so that the bottom doesn’t burn.

  6. Taste the chowder and then add salt and pepper as needed.

    Ladle into bowls and enjoy!