Ingredients

  • 3 doz Small clams cleaned
  • 3 doz Mussels cleaned
  • 1 lrg Onion chopped
  • 1 sm Tomato - peeled seeded and minced
  • 1 sm Garlic clove chopped
  • 3 Tbsp. Extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 tsp Flour rounded tsp
  • 1 Tbsp. Minced parsley heaping tbsp
  • 1 pch Grnd pepper

Method

  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
  • Put cleaned shellfish in a saucepan and shake gently over moderate heat for 3 to 4 min till they open.
  • Remove shellfish to ovenproof pan.
  • Strain juice through kitchen towel and reserve for later use.
  • Slowly fry the chopped onion in 3 Tbsp.
  • warm extra virgin olive oil.
  • Add in tomato when onion begins to take on color.
  • After liquid from tomato has evaporated, add in chopped garlic clove, minced parsley, and flour.
  • Stir to prevent burning while flour cook for 1 minute.
  • Pour in liquid reserved from cooking of shellfish.
  • Add in pepper.
  • Boil sauce for 1 to 2 min while stirring.
  • Pour sauce over shellfish and bake in 400 degree oven 6 to 7 min.
  • Comments: Mariscada A La Marinera can be made with any assortment of shellfish locally available.
  • If you use large-shelled seafood, you may wish to remove one shell from each mollusk before covering with sauce.
  • The recipe is Galician, and the version given above is from the Hogar Gallego in Madrid.