Clam Soup Portuguese

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 20 lbs clams (small)
• 2 ounces fat bacon
• 1 large onion
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 2 1/2 quarts water
• 1 1/2 cups uncooked rice
• peas

Recipe

• 1 leave clams overnight in salted water and then wash thoroughly in several waters to clean all the sand.
• 2 dice bacon and onion and sauté with oil and butter in deep pot.
• 3 add clams and a parsley sprig.
• 4 cover and allow simmering slowly for about 20 minutes, stirring from time to time so onions do not burn.
• 5 add water.
• 6 when this comes to a boil, add rice; add 10 ounces frozen peas to the soup when rice is soft.
• 7 allow to come to a boil again and then turn heat down, allowing soup to simmer slowly until rice has softened almost to a paste.
• 8 remove all empty shells which have loosened from the clams.