Dinner Tonight: Clams with Sweet Potato Smoked Sausage and Watercress

Name: Dinner Tonight: Clams with Sweet Potato Smoked Sausage and Watercress
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 24 clams, or 16 clams if they are bigger; 473 milliliters dry white wine; 1 teaspoons kosher salt; 85 grams smoked sausage, such as andouille, kielbasa, or Spanish chorizo; 340 grams sweet potatoes, peeled, cut into ½-inch pieces (about 3 cups); 1 bunch watercress, most of the stems removed

Dinner Tonight: Clams with Sweet Potato Smoked Sausage and Watercress might be just the main course you are searching for. This gluten free, dairy free, and primal recipe serves 2. One portion of this dish contains roughly 13g of protein, 12g of fat, and a total of 495 calories. If you have clams, sweet potatoes, kosher salt, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the dry white wine you could follow this main course with the White Wine Frozen Yogurt as a dessert.

Instructions

Add the sausage to a 3-quart Dutch oven set over medium-high heat. Cook, stirring often, until the pieces are lightly browned and have rendered some of their fat, about five minutes. Use a slotted spoon to remove half of the sausage, and then transfer it to a couple paper towels to drain. Leave the rest in the Dutch oven.

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Pour two cups of water and the wine into the dutch oven.

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Add the salt, cover, and bring to a boil.

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Add the sweet potatoes. When the liquid comes back to a boil, cook for three minutes.

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Dump in the clams, stir well, and then again cover the Dutch oven. Cook, stirring every other minute, until all the clams have opened, six to eight minutes. Discard any clams that have not opened.

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Divide the watercress between four large bowls. Then add one-quarter of the clams, sausage, and sweet potatoes to each.

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Pour in enough broth into each bowl to just barely cover everything.

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Garnish with the reserved sausage. Season to taste with salt.

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Servings:

clams, or 16 clams if they are bigger 473milliliters

dry white wine 1teaspoons

kosher salt 85grams

smoked sausage, such as andouille, kielbasa, or Spanish chorizo 340grams

sweet potatoes, peeled, cut into ½-inch pieces (about 3 cups)1bunch

watercress, most of the stems removed

Recommended wine: Chardonnay, Muscadet, Riesling

Clams on the menu? Try pairing with Chardonnay, Muscadet, and Riesling. Buttery chardonnay is great for scallops, shrimp, crab, and lobster, while muscadet is a classic pick for mussels, oysters, and clams. If you've got some spice in your shellfish, a semi-dry riesling can balance out the heat. You could try Foley Estate Winery Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay. Reviewers quite like it with a 4.3 out of 5 star rating and a price of about 27 dollars per bottle.