Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Foil Baked Clams Recipe



How To Make Foil Baked Clams
Foil Baked Clams Recipe. A traditional method cooking in a parcel, or a bag, called Papillote. Delight in our Foil Baked Clams recipe.


Serves: 2 people
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes

Step 1:
•300 g clams
•1 carrot , peeled and cut to small dice
•1 celery stalk , chopped
•1 tomato , de-seeded and diced
•13 courgette , de-seeded and diced
•2 slices of ham , cut into strips
•2 thin slices of lemon
•15 g butter
•4 tbsp white wine
•2 tbsp parsley , chopped
•2 sheets of foil
•1 baking tray
•1 kitchen cloth
•1 scissors

Step 2: Prepare the ingredients
Get all your ingredients ready to cook.

Step 3: Heat the oven
Preheat the oven to 220 degrees centigrade or gas mark 7.

Step 4: Prepare the clams
Take a sheet of folded foil and place it on a flat surface. Then, add half the clams into the centre, now sprinkle over the carrots the celery, the courgette, the tomato, the sliced ham, a slice of lemon, half of the butter, the white wine. Then, fold over and seal the edges, it is very important that all the edges are well sealed.

Repeat for the second parcel using up remaining ingredients.

Step 5: Bake the clams
On a baking tray, place the parcels into the centre of the preheated oven and cook for 10 minutes. After this time remove from the oven.

Step 6: Finishing touches
Hold the hot parcel in a kitchen cloth or oven glove and place it onto a serving plate. Very carefully, snip down the foil using your scissors, then, across a little way so that the foil will open up like petals.

Discard immediately any clams that have not opened!

Garnish with a sprinkling on parsley

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