Tim O'Toole's Famous Stuffed Quahogs

Name: Tim O'Toole's Famous Stuffed Quahogs
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 24
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 59 milliliters butter; 118 milliliters margarine; 1 large onion, coarsely chopped; 454 grams package Portuguese chourico sausage links; 340 grams package chicken-flavored bread stuffing mix (such as Kraft® Stove Top®); 946 milliliters water

Tim O'Toole's Famous Stuffed Quahogs might be a good recipe to expand your side dish collection. This recipe covers 16% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains about 5g of protein, 7g of fat, and a total of 141 calories. This recipe serves 24. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour. Head to the store and pick up water, chicken-flavored bread stuffing mix, onion, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

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Oven

Bring water to a boil over high heat.

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Water

Add sausage links; reduce heat to medium and simmer for 10 minutes.

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Sausage Links

Remove links from broth; reserve the broth.

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Broth

Remove casings from the sausage.

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Sausage

Bring the broth back to a simmer and add the quahogs; cook until they open, 5 to 10 minutes.

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Broth

Remove the quahogs; reserve the broth.

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Broth

Remove the cooked quahogs from the shells. Separate the shell halves. If necessary wash the shells.

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Pasta Shells

Place the sausage and quahog meat into the bowl of a food processor; process until chopped, about 12 seconds, depending on your processor. Scrape mixture into a bowl.

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Sausage

Meat

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Bowl

Add chopped onion to the processor; chop about 5 seconds. Stir in to the meat mixture.

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Onion

Meat

Make the full container of stuffing according to package directions, using the margarine, and substituting the sausage/clam broth for water. There may be more broth than you need.

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Margarine

Stuffing

Sausage

Broth

Water

Mix together the stuffing and sausage/clam/onion mixture. Spoon filling into empty clam shell halves and top each with a small pat of butter (about a third of a teaspoon).

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Stuffing

Sausage

Butter

Onion

Place the shells on a baking pan; bake in the preheated oven until toasty brown on top, 15 to 20 minutes.

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Pasta Shells

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Baking Pan