You can buy powdered hot red pepper, but I like to chop up the flakes myself. Let the oil and garlic steep in a small bowl 30 minutes to 2 hours. Preheat oven to 475' F. Shuck the clams as described on page 7, reserving the clam juice. Strain the juice through cheesecloth or a very fine sieve www.recipes.it |
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Make topping: In a small bowl stir together topping ingredients until combined well and season with salt and pepper. Scrub reserved clam shells inside and out and dry. In a shallow baking pan spread coarse salt about 1/4-inch deep and nestle shells in salt to keep them www.bigoven.com |
Can lose the peppers, and way way way too dry. On second try, I drissled the clams with half a bottle of clam juice then sprayed a liberal amount of olive oil over each clam. (also a good smattering of chopped garlic) It came out much better, actually pretty good, but I've definately had better. www.epicurious.com |
------------------------FOR CRUMB TOPPING----------------------------- 3/4 c coarse dry bread crumbs; -(preferably from a 1 ; crusty loaf of 1 ; italian bread) 1 lg garlic clove; minced 2 tb minced drained bottled -roasted pepp; ers 2 tb extravirgin olive oil 1 tb minced fresh oregano leaves -or recipes.chef2chef.net |