Seafood Clambake

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 4 to 6 servings
  • Total: 1 hr
  • Active: 30 min
Talk about a way to make your guests feel special. This clambake is chock full of amazing seafood -- clams, of course, plus sweet Charleston shrimp, mussels and even lobster tails! Oh, goodness, cousins. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it!
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Ingredients

Clambake:

3 tablespoons Miss Brown’s House Seasoning, recipe follows

1 1/2 pounds baby multicolor fingerling potatoes

1 pound smoked sausage (I like Roger Wood), thinly sliced

3 ears corn, shucked, each cut crosswise into 4 pieces

1 pound mussels, scrubbed and debearded

24 littleneck clams, scrubbed

2 lemons, halved

1 red onion, cut into wedges

4 to 6 lobster tails (1 per person)

1 pound medium shrimp, peeled and deveined (tails left on)

1 stick (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter, sliced

1 cup dry white wine

Bloody Mary Cocktail Sauce:

1 1/4 cups ketchup

3 tablespoons prepared horseradish

2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

2 cloves garlic, minced

1 tablespoon vodka

1 tablespoon hot sauce

1/4 teaspoon celery seeds

Miss Brown’s House Seasoning:

1 tablespoon garlic powder

1 tablespoon onion powder

1 tablespoon paprika

1 tablespoon kosher salt

1 tablespoon freshly ground pepper

Directions

  1. For the clambake: Preheat a grill or prepare coals in a fire pit with a grill grate to high heat. Combine 8 cups water and the House Seasoning in a large, deep roasting pan. Add the potatoes and sausage. Place on the grill grate, cover with foil and bring the water to a boil. Let boil 6 minutes. Add the corn, mussels, clams, lemons and onions. Cover and cook for 10 minutes. Add the lobster tails and shrimp. Dot the top with the butter and pour the wine over the top. Cover and cook until the corn is tender and all the seafood is done, about 5 minutes.
  2. Meanwhile, make the Bloody Mary Cocktail Sauce: Stir together the ketchup, horseradish, Worcestershire, lemon juice, garlic, vodka, hot sauce and celery seeds in a medium bowl. Serve the seafood clambake with the cocktail sauce and the white wine-butter pan sauce.

Miss Brown’s House Seasoning:

  1. Stir together the garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, salt and pepper in a small bowl. Store in an airtight container.

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This was a winner for our Fourth of July Feast. I added some King Crab legs but otherwise followed the recipe as written. We cooked it outside on a gas burner, and everything was hot and delicious when finished. My husband is not a fan of steamed seafood, but even he had second and third helpings. I plan to use this delicious broth to make p[asta in my Instant Pot!

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