Clam

Palourde

What it is

They live buried in sand and filter water through a siphon, which means they are full of grit unless purged — a few hours in clean salted water and they spit it out themselves. No amount of rinsing achieves the same thing.

In the kitchen

Purge them in salted water, never fresh — fresh water kills them and they open and spoil.

Goes with

Garlic Parsley Olive oil Chili pepper White wine vinegar Hake Tomato Lemon

Also used with

Faba asturiana Kokotxas (hake throat) Nanohana (rapeseed blossom) Pochas Sea arrowgrass Kinome (sanshō leaf)

In season alongside

Surf clam Mantis shrimp Razor clam Soft-shell clam Stone crab claw Wedge clam

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