Steemit Sandwich Contest, Week #50, Clams Casino Sandwich
Clams casino is a beloved east coast dish (USA). The classic dish is a baked clam on the half shell topped with bacon and garlicky bread crumbs. What is not to love about this dish? I thought this dish would make a great sandwich with a few modifications.
Ingredients
- Great Crusty bread
- Clams
- Bacon
- Garlic
- Tomato
- Lemon
- Mayonaise
- Capers
- Cornichons
- Fresh Tarragon
- Fresh Basil
Method
- Steam the clams until just open but still uncooked
- Cook the bacon until crispy and save some bacon fat
Fry thin slices of garlic in 300F oil until crispy
Make the tartar sauce with mayonnaise, capers, cornichons, lemon zest, tarragon, basil, salt and pepper
Fresh herbs are best and here you can see the tarragon and basil plants that I used in my tartar sauce
- Here is the completed tartar sauce. The richness of the mayonnaise is balanced by pungent capers, cornichons and herbs.
- Lay the clams out on a piece of parchment paper (I actually used an old butter paper wrapper)
- Coat the clams with the tartar sauce and put under a broiler
- Fry the bread in the reserved bacon fat until brown and crispy
- Add some tartar sauce to the bread
- Add some sliced tomato to the bread
- Top the tomatoes off with the broiled clams
- Add the crispy bacon and fried garlic chips on top of the broiled clams
- finish off the sandwich with diced fresh lemon segments. This final step is so important to balancing out the rich flavors in the sandwich.
I hope you all enjoyed my interpretation of a clams casino sandwich. If you have any questions about this sandwich please ask me in the comments section below.
Oh dude, I absolutely love this! What is not to like indeed!
Broiled clams, bacon homemade tartar sauce. Veggies home grown herbs & great pres/originality.
You really pulled out all the stops on this 1 shundang!
Most excellent work my friend!
Thanks @jaybird! I had some clams casino in a seaside town recently and instantly thought about making it into a sandwich! long live the sandwich!!
Delicious-looking sandwich! Every component and layer of this dish contributes to the enjoyment of the final product - from the bread fried in reserved bacon fat, the tartar sauce with the fresh ingredients, the clams, the lemon segments and the garlic chips. So full of flavor!
Thanks for sharing @chefsteve!
Thanks @offoodandart! It was a hard sandwich to photograph in the sense of trying to convey the big flavors in the sandwich. There were no huge piles of pastrami or cascading mountains of bacon with this one! But each ingredient is bursting with big mouth watering flavors. Thanks for your comment!
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Oh my...that really made me hungry! Great sandwich, so nice to have herbs straight from your garden :) Wonderful entry!
Thanks @birdsinparadise! I love shellfish, so this was a new way to enjoy it! The garden fresh herbs can make any food taste better.
I want to sink my teeth into this sandwich. I like the addition of lemon zest in your tartar sauce. It must have highlighted all the herbs in your sauce. Good luck!
Thanks @loveself! I love to add lemon zest and lemon segments into my food. They really do make the other flavors POP!
OMG!!! I want to try it! It looks yummy with sweet basil too! Love how the bacon looks! I will try this recipe myself! Thanks for sharing good stuff!
Oh my word, your Clams Casino sandwich looks amazing @chefsteve, I would love to have one of those!
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STOPThis looks like an amazing sandwich@chefsteve! I love the fried garlic. It reminds me of that scene in Goodfella's, did you use a razor?
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