Asari Clam Rice

Name: Asari Clam Rice
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 360 ml Uncooked white rice; 600 grams Manila clams (asari); 1 1/2 tbsp each Cooking Sake / Soy Sauce

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It's quite customary for my family to go clam digging. We eat this asari clam rice every year.

When I go clam digging I can find lots of clams and make a big batch of asari clam rice, but if buying from a supermarket, I make do with 200 - 300 g.
I eat a lot so I made the asari clam rice in the photos with 3 cups of rice and 900 g clams. Recipe by Pukuttopukumaru

It's quite customary for my family to go clam digging. We eat this asari clam rice every year.

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

It's quite customary for my family to go clam digging. We eat this asari clam rice every year.

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Ingredients

360 mlUncooked white rice
600 gramsManila clams (asari)
1 1/2 tbspeach Cooking Sake / Soy Sauce

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Steps

1

Wash the rice and leave for 30 minutes.
2

This is 900 g of asari clams with shells.
3

Steam the clams in sake and remove the meat from the shells. Save the soup left behind from steaming the clams. Refer to steps 6 - 9 to find out how to steam the clams with sake.
4

Add the washed rice to the rice cooker, along with the soup we took in step 3, cooking sake and soy sauce. Fill with water until you reach the 2 cups mark (or however much liquid you would normally use for the amount of rice you want), and cook the rice.
5

Once the rice has cooked, add the clam meat and let them steam for a while.
6

How to steam clams: Add the asari clams to a frying pan, pour over some cooking sake, put on the lid, and steam-cook on a low-medium heat.
7

If you overcook the clams the meat will shrink so take them off the heat as soon as they start to open up.
8

This is how they look when they're opened.
9

Take a look at this related recipe too Fukagawa Don (Rice bowl).
https://cookpad.wasmer.app/us/recipes/145234-miso-clam-rice-bowl

Miso Clam Rice Bowl