The Art of Cooking Pepperoni Clams on the Grill

As I step down to the house of sausage, I'm excited to share with you my latest culinary adventure - cooking pepperoni clams on the grill. With my barbecue shoes securely fastened, I'm ready to take on this mouthwatering recipe. The aroma of sizzling meat and fresh seafood fills the air as I begin to set up the grill for indirect heating.

The charcoal is lit on one side of the grill, while I carefully arrange the clams on a nearby surface. I've got about 7 pounds of clams, ranging from small neck clams to larger Cherry Stone clams. The beauty of this recipe lies in its flexibility - feel free to use whatever fresh and local clams you can find. Now that we have our ingredients ready, let's get started.

The key to this recipe is the abundance of garlic. I need a substantial amount to bring out the flavors of the dish. Alongside the garlic, a lemon and a stick of butter will complete the perfect combination. And, of course, no pepperoni clam recipe would be complete without a generous helping of fresh made pepperoni. The quality of this pepperoni is crucial - always choose a good one for the best results.

With my pot ready to steam the clams, I carefully add them along with some garlic and lemon slices. This recipe makes an excellent side dish, perfect for accompanying steak, chicken, or any other barbecue favorite. Now that we've got our ingredients prepared, let's move on to the most challenging part of the recipe - chopping the garlic and pepperoni.

As I slice up the garlic into thin pieces, I can smell its pungent aroma wafting through the air. The next step is to chop the pepperoni into small chunks, which will blend seamlessly with the garlic and other ingredients. This is where patience comes in - take your time to ensure that every piece of garlic and pepperoni is finely chopped.

With our ingredients now fully prepared, it's time to heat up the black iron pan over medium heat. A generous amount of cooking oil will be added to coat the bottom of the pan, followed by a few minutes of frying until the pepperoni is golden brown. As I wait for this step to complete, I can already imagine the delightful flavors that will soon come together.

Now that our garlic and pepperoni are perfectly fried, it's time to add the butter to prevent burning and create a rich, creamy sauce. This step is crucial - don't skip it! With the sauce ready, we're almost ready to bring everything together. I carefully pour the sauce over the clams, followed by a squeeze of lemon juice.

With our sauce in place, all that remains is to steam the clams until they're cooked through. As the minutes tick by, the aroma of perfectly cooked seafood fills the air. And just like that, our pepperoni clam recipe is complete!

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so we're going to just throw these in now this recipe is a real good side dish serving alongside some steak chicken whatever part of you got going on all right we put this aside now what we want to do is uh take our garlic and pepperoni and chop them up that's about the most difficult thing about this recipe it's real easy to do like I said now in doing these pepperoni clams you definitely want to make yourself a big batch otherwise you'll regret it's that good now I'm going to uh slice up these uh clothes of garlic here real thin slices and we're going to take this uh pepperoni and and chop it up to pretty small chunks now we don't really need to be showing you how to do this you know all about this but uh we'll show you couple video shots of this I said nice nice fresh pepperoni man I'm getting hungry already all right just moved it on here and uh you can see we've got everything chopped up here and I'm uh slicing up this garlic in pretty thin slices man there's nothing like the smell of fresh garlic all right now here I'm going to take some cooking oil and we're going to coat the bottom of this black iron pan because we're going to go ahead and Fry up this pepperoni and slices of garlic man it smells good now you're only going to want to do this for a few minutes cuz you uh you don't want to burn the garlic look at that now here we're throwing in a/4 pound of butter this will prevent your garlic slices there from burning it's going to make a nice pepperoni garlic sauce for the clams nice hope it's real easy to do you smell that it smells good all right that's done now let's get the clams going cuz we're going to steam these up and it only takes about 5 to 10 minutes and here we're adding a little bit of beer and a little bit of water not much so we don't want to boil these clams we just want to steamer you got to remember there's a lot of natural juices in these clams already all right through the miracle of time these clams are done take a look at that now we'll just pour them in a big bowl put rest now cooking clams is real easy cuz you know when they're done just open up you don't want to cook them much longer than that otherwise they'll get tough here we're going to throw a little lemon on there now we're going to take this pepperoni garlic and butter sa oh yeah pour it all over those clamps we got to try a little bit of this right now good going to grab at the C I got my barbecue shoes on going to grab me some at the chicken C got my barbecue shoes on going to throw up some legs and get some barbecue action my stomach just went to mously so the next time you're looking for a recipe for your barbecue you check out the bbqpitboys.comI'm going down to the house of sausage I got my barbecue shoes on I'm going down to the house for sausage I got my barbecue shoes oncome to barbecue pit boo.com today we're going to do some pepperoni clams on the grill man if you like pepperoni and clams you got to check this out all right we got the grill set up here for indirect heating the charcoal on one side and here I've got about 7 lbs of clams this here of course is a muscle here's a little neck clam and this is a larger Cherry Stone clam use whatever clams you can find fresh and local all right let's get going here now we've got some garlic and you're going to need a lot of it you're going to need a lemon you're going to need a stick of butter about 1/4 pound of butter there and here's the magic this is about one lound of fresh made pepperoni you always want to choose a good pepperoni for this recipe all right let's get this started now here I have a pot which we're going to steam the clams in so we're going to just throw these in now this recipe is a real good side dish serving alongside some steak chicken whatever part of you got going on all right we put this aside now what we want to do is uh take our garlic and pepperoni and chop them up that's about the most difficult thing about this recipe it's real easy to do like I said now in doing these pepperoni clams you definitely want to make yourself a big batch otherwise you'll regret it's that good now I'm going to uh slice up these uh clothes of garlic here real thin slices and we're going to take this uh pepperoni and and chop it up to pretty small chunks now we don't really need to be showing you how to do this you know all about this but uh we'll show you couple video shots of this I said nice nice fresh pepperoni man I'm getting hungry already all right just moved it on here and uh you can see we've got everything chopped up here and I'm uh slicing up this garlic in pretty thin slices man there's nothing like the smell of fresh garlic all right now here I'm going to take some cooking oil and we're going to coat the bottom of this black iron pan because we're going to go ahead and Fry up this pepperoni and slices of garlic man it smells good now you're only going to want to do this for a few minutes cuz you uh you don't want to burn the garlic look at that now here we're throwing in a/4 pound of butter this will prevent your garlic slices there from burning it's going to make a nice pepperoni garlic sauce for the clams nice hope it's real easy to do you smell that it smells good all right that's done now let's get the clams going cuz we're going to steam these up and it only takes about 5 to 10 minutes and here we're adding a little bit of beer and a little bit of water not much so we don't want to boil these clams we just want to steamer you got to remember there's a lot of natural juices in these clams already all right through the miracle of time these clams are done take a look at that now we'll just pour them in a big bowl put rest now cooking clams is real easy cuz you know when they're done just open up you don't want to cook them much longer than that otherwise they'll get tough here we're going to throw a little lemon on there now we're going to take this pepperoni garlic and butter sa oh yeah pour it all over those clamps we got to try a little bit of this right now good going to grab at the C I got my barbecue shoes on going to grab me some at the chicken C got my barbecue shoes on going to throw up some legs and get some barbecue action my stomach just went to mously so the next time you're looking for a recipe for your barbecue you check out the bbqpitboys.com\n"