Creamy cockle chowder recipe with soda bread by Si and Dave the Bikers on Best of British

Si and Dave serve up creamy cockle chowder with soda bread on the Bikers Best of British foods.

The Bikers says: “This bacon-flecked cockle chowder is stylishly served in a scooped out bread roll.”

The ingredients for the soup are: 1kg fresh live cockles (or 400g shelled cockles), ½ lemon, juice only, 25g butter, 1 onion, finely chopped, 2 sticks celery, trimmed and sliced, 3 rashers rindless smoked streaky bacon, cut into 1cm slices, 1 bay leaf, bushy sprig thyme,300g potatoes, preferably Maris Piper, 2 tbsp plain flour, 300ml full-fat milk, 300ml chicken stock, made with ½ stock cube, 1 medium leek, trimmed, washed and finely sliced, 100ml double cream, 100ml white wine, young celery sticks, from the centre of the head and roughly chopped parsley, to garnish.


See how the chefs prepare their chowder and soda bread without yeast in the video below: