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    Home » Recipes » Seafood » Shellfish Recipes » Clams » Mexican Beer Little Neck Clams

    Published: Sep 19, 2014 Modified: Jun 9, 2023 by Catherine Arena Leave a Comment

    Mexican Beer Little Neck Clams

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    These Mexican Beer Little Neck Clams are cooked in their natural juices, Mexican beer, jalapeño peppers, onions, corn, parsley and butter. Absolutely delicious! 

    Mexican Beer Little Neck Clams served in a white square bowl.

    Oh how I love clams and these Mexican Beer Little Neck Clams are no exception!

    I just still don’t understand how some people are so repulsed by the idea of even one gram of seafood! For me maybe it’s the fact that I am Latina and seafood is a common stable in my culture so I grew up eating a lot of it or maybe the fact that my teenage years and early adulthood, I grew up in Long Island, NY where seafood is certainly not scarce. Whatever the case is, for me seafood is hands down my favorite food in the world!!

    Growing up in Long Island allowed me the luxury of eating my favorite food on a regular basis and I mean a regular basis! Like a couple of times a week. There’s a fish market everywhere!

    With all the fish markets available to me, it was quite common for me to savor in my absolute favorite, a couple of times a week.

    You see now I live in the south. And this part of the south has no real fish markets. My closest fish market is a 50 minute drive. So you see, fresh seafood, is just a tidbit harder to get now a days.

    I remember those days clamming on the Long Island Sound. One time a few friends and I fished a little over 300 little neck and cherry stone clams. We ate like Kings that night! We headed back to one of their shore homes and made clams linguine, clams casino and clams on the half shell. Talk about heaven! We opened a couple of bottles of white wine and truly enjoyed our catch!

    Okay, so now that I’ve shared and you know a little more about me, let’s get back to this here recipe……

    PSsssst….one last thing, if you’re like me and don’t have accessibility to fresh seafood around the corner, you may want to try out The Crab Place, they are awesome and there prices are fair to the market and you can order live clams, oysters, crabs, crayfish and lobsters delivered right to your door!

    Purchase Seafood Online

    This has been my go to place here lately! They are great!

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    Mexican Beer Little Neck Clams served in a white square bowl.

    Mexican Beer Little Neck Clams

    These Mexican Beer Little Neck Clams are cooked in their natural juices, Mexican beer, jalapeño peppers, onions, corn, parsley and butter.  Absolutely delicious! 
    5 from 1 vote
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    Course: Appetizer
    Cuisine: Mexican
    Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 20 minutes minutes
    Servings: 3 or 6 people if you serve half a dozen each
    Calories: 309kcal
    Author: Catherine Arena

    Ingredients

    • 3 dozen little neck clams rinsed with cool water, can substitute with any small clam of your choice
    • ½ cup fresh corn cob or can corn
    • 1 small onion chopped
    • ½ to 1 jalapeño sliced depending how spicy you want your broth
    • 3 garlic cloves finely chopped
    • 1 Corona beer or mexican beer of your choice
    • 1 tablespoon fresh pasley finely chopped
    • 8 tablespoons butter unsalted bar butter not margarine
    • 1 zest of lime use a grater if you don’t have a lemon/lime zester
    • salt to taste

    Instructions

    • In a large sauce pan over medium heat, melt butter. Saute onion for a few minutes until onions are translucent…..add garlic and saute for another minute being careful not to burn garlic. 
    • Add corn and mix well together with onions and garlic. Saute corn for about 5-10 minutes until corn is cooked and starchiness of corn is gone.
    • Add beer and get it really hot…simmering. 
    • In the meantime rinse clams well and discard any clams that are cracked. Also discard any clams that are open and will not close fully when tapped with your finger.
    •  Add clams to pan and cook until shells open. 
    • Add parsley and zest to clams and stir.
    • Serve clams in individual bowls and garnish with more parsley and lemon or lime  wedge.

    Nutrition

    Serving: 3 | Calories: 309kcal | Carbohydrates: 9g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 30g | Saturated Fat: 19g | Cholesterol: 80mg | Sodium: 284mg | Potassium: 130mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 980IU | Vitamin C: 5.3mg | Calcium: 23mg | Iron: 0.2mg
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    Remove husk and silk from corn and cut kernels as close as possible without removing any of the “cob” itself.

    Removing the corn kernels from fresh cob for the Mexican Beer Little Neck Clams

    Zest lime and chop pasley.  Set aside.

    Zesting a lime for the Mexican Beer Little Neck Clams

    Chopping parsley for the Mexican Beer Little Neck Clams
    Chopping jalapenos and onions for the Mexican Beer Little Neck Clams

     Slice jalapeños and chop onion.

     Melt butter.  Saute onion and garlic for a few minutes….until onion is translucent.

    Sauteing onions and garlic with butter in a cast iron skillet for the Mexican Beer Little Neck Clams

     Add corn kernels and jalapeño.

    Onions, corn kernels and jalapenos sauteing in a cast iron skillet for the Mexican Beer Little Neck Clams

      Saute for a few minutes until corn is cooked and a prettttty yellow.

    Corn kernels, onions and jalapenos sauteed for the Mexican Beer Little Neck Clams

     Rinse clams with cool water.

    Rinse clams with cool water-Mexican Beer Little Neck Clams

    Add clams and cook for a few minutes until clams open. DO NOT overcook clams or they will become rubbery and tough.

    Clams cooking in cast iron skillet-Mexican Beer Little Neck Clams

    Sprinkle with lime zest and serve in individual bowls.  Garnish with fresh cilantro!  DONE!

    Mexican Beer Little Neck Clams served in a white square bowl.

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