Rehabbed Five Spice Clams With Chinese Noodles

• 12 to 14 really good fresh manila clams or cockles
• 1 link spicy Chinese sausage* or substitute a semicured Spanish sausage or garlickly French sliced into medallions
• 1 tablespoon peanut oil
• 1 small onion, thinly sliced
• 2 cloves garlic thinly sliced
• 1 stalk of celery thinly sliced
• 1 green onion sliced
• 1/4 cup white wine (it may need more wine at the finish, you decide)
• 1 teaspoon five spice pepper**
• One handful of very thin Chinese noodles
• Chopped cilantro
• Salt and fresh ground pepper

1. Get started by prepping your mise en place; chop, slice blah, blah
2. Scrub your clams to remove any grit and put them away COLD until needed
3. Bring your pasta water almost to a boil and keep ready as this dish cooks fairly quickly
4. In the 12" pan heat the peanut oil. Use just enough to cover the bottom of the pan and heat at medium until you see the surface begin to ripple. Now add the sliced sausage and lightly brown it
5. When the sausage has begun to show some color add your prepped mise, reserving the green onion and cilantro to be added at the end. Follow with the wine to deglaze. It should evaporate almost completely
6. Continue to cook over medium and now add the five spice mixture.
7. Put the noodles in your now bubbling cauldron. When cooked, drain the noodles and combine in the pan with the other ingredients.
8. Add the scrubbed clams (it may need a splash more wine if you have any left over) and cover. Turn the heat up to medium high. The dish is finished when all those little clams open up and sing Turandot to you. Discard any that refuse to open
9. To plate: it will need salt and pepper to taste. Always taste...now you can add the chopped cilantro and sliced green onions.
10. *Available in Asian markets such as 99 Ranch
11. **Five spice powder is available from Penzeys', but you can make your own version in a spice grinder combining 2 or 3 points of star anise, 3 whole cloves and equal parts fennel seed, cassia bark, szechuan pepper corns.

manila clams, chinese sausage, peanut oil, onion, garlic, celery, green onion, ubc, five spice pepper, thin chinese noodles, cilantro, salt

Taken from food52.com/recipes/9064-rehabbed-five-spice-clams-with-chinese-noodles (may not work)