3 Quick & Easy Recipes for Tinned Clams: Put Clams in It!
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Salad? Put clams in it! Pasta? Put clams in it! Soup? Put clams in it! So much protein (seven grams per tin), so few calories (32 per tin), so good with just about everything. Tinned clams, particularly Donostia Foods Clams in Brine, which in our very biased opinion are the best, can improve your lunch with just the the pop of a tin.
Below are three quick and easy recipes to do just that.
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Tinned Clams Butter Lettuce Salad
Total Time: 5 minutes.
Ingredients
- Donostia Foods Clams in Brine
- save some of the brine for dressing
- butter lettuce
- celery hearts
- red onion
- Donostia Foods Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- garlic
- parsley
- a fresh squeeze of lemon
Directions
1. In a bowl, mix clams, celery, onion, garlic, and parsley with the olive oil and some of the brine from the tin. Mix it good. Then squeeze that lemon over it all and mix some more.
2. Put all of that on top of that fresh butter lettuce and enjoy the fruit of your (not hard) labor.
3. In what quantities should the above ingredients be used? That's completely up to you. You got this.
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Thai Coconut Soup with Tinned Clams
Total Time: 30 minutes, maybe, but you can make it ahead of time and store it in the refrigerator, if time is of the essence.
Ingredients
- Donostia Foods Clams in Brine
- 1 can of coconut milk
- yellow onion
- mushrooms, sliced
- carrots
- garlic
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- Donostia Foods Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1.5 cups vegetable stock
- Thai peppers for garnish
- salt and pepper to taste
- lemon, for zesting
Directions
1. In a pot, heat olive oil, then add onion, mushrooms, and garlic and sauté for a few minutes.
2. To that pot, add clams, carrots, soy sauce, ginger, sugar, cayenne pepper, salt, pepper, lemon zest, vegetable stock and coconut milk. Bring to a boil then simmer for 15-20 minutes.
3. Adjust with more or less of those ingredients, or whatever you a believe would be a worthy addition.
4. Enjoy.
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Tinned Clams & Spaghetti
Total Time: 10-15 minutes.
Ingredients
- 1 tin Donostia Foods Clams in Brine (Almejas al Natural)
- 1/2 cup white wine
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 6 ounces spaghetti
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- parsley
- Several Donostia Foods Guindilla Peppers
- 1 lemon
Directions
1. Boil some water and cook pasta to a perfect al dente. You got this.
2. In a pan on another burner, melt the butter and mix in the white wine.
3. In that pan mentioned in step two, add the perfect al dente pasta and clams and heat until you think, yeah, yeah I want to have dinner now. Squeeze the juice of the lemon all about and garnish with parsley and guindilla peppers.
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One afternoon not that long ago, A.J. Weiss was sitting in a cafe, tapping his pen on an empty note pad, and staring out the window. The prior accumulated years of adventure, heartbreak, and common drudgery had all amounted to this, a particular moment, for reasons both unknown and fairly straightforward. The most straightforward being that he worked at Blue Planet Foods, Ltd., importer of high-quality food products and ingredients, and that he had set forth to complete the task of conjuring a suitable name for the company's new Spanish specialty food brand. After a certain amount of consideration and voluminous list-making, Donostia Foods came to be.
What was the inspiration for this (superb) brand name? Donostia-San Sebastián, a small coastal city in Basque Country in northern Spain, renowned for its restaurants, gastronomic societies, and culinary traditions. A place where locals and visitors alike wander the cobblestones of the old town in the warm evening light, drifting amongst the pintxo bars to sample unparalleled small-bites accompanied by the effervescent local wine, txakoli, and sharing in the laughter that becomes the fondest of memories; a place that exudes good food, good drinks, and a general sense of revelry. All of which is quite enjoyable.
With Donostia Foods we hope to introduce more people in the United States to the gastronomic pleasures of Donostia-San Sebastián and Spain as a whole, with a continually expanding product line of the best examples of the best products we can find and with the conviviality of the place itself.
Thank you for your interest in Donostia Foods, and if there's anything we can do for you, please contact us.
A.J. Weiss in the village of Espelette in Basque Country.
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