Chunky Smoked Seafood Chowder - Annabel Langbein

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp butter
• 1 large leek white part and half the green finely diced
• 3 potatoes peeled and cut into 2cm chunks
• 4 cups chicken stock
• 2 whole bay leaves
• 2 tsp thyme leaves
• 300 g smoked fish or hot-smoked salmon, deboned and flaked
• 3 cups corn kernels
• 3 stalks celery thinly sliced
• 3 cups milk
• salt and fine white pepper to taste
• 3 tbsp chopped parsley
• 1 lemon juice of
• 10-12 smoked mussels coarsely chopped
• 1/2 cup cream