Salmon Chowder

As I was watching Iron Chef America the secret ingredient was salmon! Both teams made a chowder dish. As I've been trying to eat healthier I have a bag of frozen Salmon filets in my fridge and thought delicious, I will make that for dinner. I found 3 recipes online to try and get an idea of what ingredients would be good and roughly how long to cook it. Here is what I came up with...
p.s. my room-mates and boyfriend LOVED this and it's pretty healthy

Ingredients:
1 Tbs of butter
1 Tbs of olive oil
1/4 of a large yellow onion-chopped
5 stocks of celery-chopped
2 large carrots-peeled and chopped
2 large potatoes-peeled and chopped
1 can of beef broth
4 cups of chicken broth-made with bouillon cubes
1 Tbs of fresh baby dill
1 Tbs of dried thyme
2 Tbs of paprika
1 Tbs cayenne pepper
2 Tbs of garlic powder
1/4 cup white wine
2 lemons-juice only
1 Tbs hot sauce
1 cup half and half
1 can creamed corn
1 handfull of cheddar cheese
1 large salmon filet seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic powder
salt and pepper to taste


Turn stove to medium, melt the butter with the olive oil and add onion, celery, and carrots. Saute until onions start to become translucent.
Add cubed potatoes and saute about 5 minutes.
Add beef broth and chicken broth, also add thyme, garlic powder, dill, paprika, cayenne pepper, salt and pepper. Let simmer, covered, for 15 mins.
While simmering cook the salmon filet.
Coat a pan with olive oil. Season the salmon filet with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Cook salmon filet until it has changed colors and has a slight brown crust on both sides, about 5 mins each side. Then cut into cubes.
Add wine, lemon juice, salmon, hot sauce and creamed corn, lower heat and simmer for 15 more minutes.
Turn heat to low and add 1 cup of half and half and handful of cheddar cheese cover and simmer about a half hour. Don't let the soup boil after half and half is added.
add salt and pepper to taste