Raw Clams on the Halfshell
Raw Clams on the Halfshell

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, raw clams on the halfshell. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Raw Clams on the Halfshell Been eating them since I was a kid & loved to go clamming as a kid in Cape Cod when on vacation. In a small bowl, combine the rice wine vinegar, shallots, ginger, cucumber, black pepper, and cilantro; mixing with a fork. Raw clams on the half shell recipe.

Raw Clams on the Halfshell is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Raw Clams on the Halfshell is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have raw clams on the halfshell using 4 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Raw Clams on the Halfshell:
  1. Take 2 dozen fresh live clams (little neck or cherrystone are best to eat raw)
  2. Take 1 lemon
  3. Get 1 tobasco sauce
  4. Get 1 cocktail sauce

Clams can be eaten raw, steamed, boiled, baked or fried. However you choose to eat your clams, the preparation begins with shucking the clams. NEVER eat raw shellfish (oysters or clams). ALWAYS choose cooked oysters and clams when eating these foods while dining out.

Instructions to make Raw Clams on the Halfshell:
  1. Keep clams on ice (easier to open them & best served chilled) open with a clam knife & best to hold the clam with a dishtowel as to not slice open your hand. Press knife at the seam of the hinge & press hard, when knife slides in run it through the clam to open it. Open sideways as to not lose the juice. Discard the top shell & run knife under the clam to release from bottom shell.
  2. Put a leaf of lettuce on the bottom of the dish & fill with ice. Place half a dozen clams on top of the ice. Serve with a wedge of lemon, tobasco sauce & cocktail sauce.
  3. Squeeze lemon juice over the clams. Add a couple of drops of tobasco sauce & small teaspoon of cocktail sauce & suck them right out of the shell.

ALWAYS cook oysters and clams thoroughly following the tips below. For oysters and clams in the shell: Do not cook too many oysters or clams in the same pot because the ones in the middle might not get fully cooked. Raw clams harvested from the Sea of Cortez, expertly prepared by our staff and eaten RAW!. Raw Clams on the Half Shell. Raw Oysters on the Half Shell with Cucumber Mignonette.

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