Thank you to Michael Meredith for sharing one of his recipes using the Miele appliances.
Cloudy Bay Clams Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 large shallot, thinly sliced
- 1 garlic clove, thinly sliced
- 1 long red chilli, thinly sliced
- 100 g cured chorizo, roughly chopped
- 80 ml (⅓ cup) white wine
- 600 g Cloudy Bay Diamond Shell Clams
- 60 g butter
- 120 g cooked chickpeas, from a tin or steamed in a Miele steam oven (see note)
- Salt flakes and pepper, to taste
- 1 lemon, halved
- 2 tbsp roughly chopped parsley leaves
Method
- Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan with a fitted lid on medium heat, induction setting 6. Add the shallots, garlic and chilli and cook, without colouring, for 2 minutes. Add the chorizo and cook for 1 minute.
- Increase the heat to high, induction setting 8, add the white wine and clams, cover. Cook the clams for 5 minutes, shaking the pan occasionally, or until clams open. Remove the clams.
- Reduce the heat to medium, induction setting 6. Add the butter and the chickpeas to the liquid in the saucepan; cook for 3 minutes, stirring to emulsify.
- Return the clams to the pan and coat in the sauce.
- Season to taste with salt, pepper and lemon juice. Sprinkle parsley over the clams and serve with bread, if desired.
Handy Hints and Tips
- To steam dried chickpeas, soak for 12 hours. Then drain the soaked chickpeas and place them in an unperforated steam container. Cover with water and place into the steam oven. Steam at 100°C for 50 minutes, or until soft.
- Diamond shell clams can be found frozen in Australia is some fishmongers. While the flavour is not the same this recipe can also be made with other clam species and pippies.
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