You can serve the cockles in or out of their shells, up to you.
Once cooked, it can be used in soups and fish stews, or made into traditional Welsh laverbread oatcakes, fried in bacon fat and served with cockles.
For entrees, I loved the crisp-skinned cod fillet, served with cockles on a bed of coco beans in a mildly piquant sauce with onion, garnished with half-rounds of chorizo.
Caesar salad has been chopped into submission and dressed for a ball at the embassy, where anchovies are unwelcome, but a bowl of linguine served with cockles and parsley, slightly fiery in its salty, rich broth, is worth praising, even if it's a recipe that riffs off one Mr. Vongerichten has cooked for years, and that appears in one of his cookbooks.
First cooked circa 1830, it is served with "cockle ketchup" and Cale gives the waiter quite a hard time over his account of how the dish was discovered by "some of the British emperors who went to Malaysia and saw the recipe" – which emperor?
To serve, cook the cockles on a fairly high heat with a couple of tablespoons of water in the covered pan, shaking them as they are cooking until they are all open, then remove from the heat.
Either way, put them into warmed serving bowls, bring the soup back to the boil, then stir in the cream and pour over the cockles.
This former red-light district is packed with stalls serving some of the best street food in Asia – skewers of satay chicken, spicy kway teow noodles smothered with juicy cockles and prawns, and delicious wok-fried kangkong (morning glory) – all for less than £3 each.
Cockles are sometimes served as a traditional breakfast with bacon and laverbread.
This study may help in providing evidences for Calcium carbonate nanocrystals derived from cockle shells to serve as interesting biomaterials for fabricating bone scaffolds, other orthopaedic applications, and drug delivery systems.
