Ingredients
- 1 small geoduck clam
- 1 small red onion, sliced
- 1 cup assorted fresh mushrooms, sliced and sauteed
- 1/8 cup olive oil
- 1/8 cup rice wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon stone-ground mustard
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon hot sauce, or to taste (recommended: Tabasco)
- 3 cups chopped romaine lettuce (1/2 cup per serving)
- 1 teaspoon freshly chopped chives
- 1 teaspoon freshly chopped cilantro leaves
- 1/8 cup chopped fresh mango
Directions
To cook the geoduck, remove the siphon (the neck part) from the shell. Bring a medium pot of salted water to a boil, add the geoduck and cook for about 20 seconds. Immediately immerse in iced water. Drain and remove the outer skin and discard. Cut in half lengthwise and thinly slice on a bias (the thinner the better as it will marinate and pick up more flavor). In a stainless steel bowl mix together the prepared geoduck, onions, and mushrooms. Cover and set aside in refrigerator for about 20 minutes.
In a small bowl add the oil, rice wine vinegar and mustard and combine well. Adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper, to taste. At this point carefully add hot sauce to your liking. (Remember the more you add the hotter it gets.) To finish, add a little dressing to the geoduck salad and let marinate for a further 20 minutes in the refrigerator.
Toss the chopped romaine lettuce, chives, cilantro and mango in a serving bowl and top with the geoduck salad.
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By fredcrowder_7930310
Tigard, OR
on June 18, 2009
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I really hate to say this, but wasting a PERFECTLY good geoduck in a salad is a crime. I have dug geoducks for years and to me, the best geoduck is eaten after being cleaved like a round steak then diped in flour then egg and back to flour and fried in about a quarter inch of oil until golden brown.
An even better way is to have a clam sandwich one day after it is fried. These are two GREAT ways to enjoy geoducks as welll as razor clams.
I grew up in Washington State right on the coast and as a kid and adult in my younger days, I would go to the beach and dig razor clams then go to the lower Puget Sound area for geoducks.
Geoducks are NOT for salads
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