Season 9 Episode 10
[Applause] I’m in Brooklyn New York awaiting trial with the 12 Angry shrimp challenge but first it’s time for some of the freshest Seafood in Brooklyn Italian style for Italian that Rivals the motherland itself you got to come to Brooklyn to razo’s Clan bar the nearly 100-year-old Seafood institution is the
Italian King of Kings County from their humble beginnings as a Seaside Raw Bar razos grew over five generations adding legendary Italian dishes along the way and becoming a neighborhood institution how long you been coming to ronzos since I’m what am I 57 37 years as good today as it was 37 years ago it’s exactly the same
A devilishly delicious dish at Randazzo’s is the shrimp fry Diablo over pasta a meal so dependably great the locals know exactly what they’re getting oh my God it’s a little spicy red sauce shrimp fried the AO six shrimp two muscles two clams good then there’s this spicy fried calamari or gamar to the
Neighborhood Italians the gamon and the sauce is addicting the hot sauce is to all I for so this is spicy yeah that’s hot I Like It Hot me too not me I like it hot too all right here we Go it’s even Smokey yeah isn’t it the like the to die for but the dish the locals say is going to give me the most authentic Taste of old school Brooklyn is there take on an old Italian classic Linguini with clam sauce it’s just fresh clam with garlic
White clan juice just amazing and has the pasta is it cuz alente it’s alente it’s not mushy no not at all I’m not a baby I could chew so I head to the kitchen to see if I can stir up some Linguini with Lopez all right so Lopez where do we start we
Start with the clams clams Lopez has been working at Randazzo’s for 47 years so naturally he hands me a knife and ask me to open the clams no pressure going to wedge my clam knife and then you pop it open can oh there we go when it comes to
Clam quality the darker the shell the more flavorful the clams so these are pretty dark once we’ve shooked a pound of clams here we go we heat a frying pan with olive oil and garlic it’s a lot of garlic wait so all this garlic Lopez this is going into linian
Clams when the oil and garlic are nice and hot we add oregano basil black pepper salt chili flakes and parsley see this W then comes the pound of clams while it’s frying we add clam juice and white wine so there’s two types of clam sauce there’s red which is
Tomato fold and then there is white which is it brings out that strong clam flavor so we’re making white today we boil our Len but not too long to keep it now Dente see often times pasta is named by their shape and so spaghetti translates to little strings Linguini is
Little tongues so it’s going to pick up all that flavor and our marriage Maiden Italian Heaven a pound of white wine clams a top Al Dente Linguini come on that’s so many clams this looks so good and it’s smells amazing everything is fresh everything’s fresh this is Randazzo’s white wine and Linguini
Clamp tastes good kidding me tastes great the pasta is very aen so there’s a bit of a bite you want that bite from your pasta the clams I mean they’re just fresh and juicy and you get that great Brine and we have so much garlic I love
Garlic so much so garlic oregano salt and pepper and then we have our chili was a little bit hot it’s perfect white wine and the garlic there’s just so much going on if you want classic Italian leny white wine clams come Ros so good
You guys go get your own I eat mine get out of here I’m happy as a clam now but I’m about to get angry he’s looking up to the sky like God’s going to save him I don’t know watch out 12 Angry shrimp challenge cuz I’m coming in hot