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How to prepare cockles (Slideshow version)
Stage 16/16 : 15 min.
Reduce the remaining saved cooking liquid by around half over low heat before using in your recipe.Remarks
When preparing cockles, you will encounter two problems: sand, which is very unpleasant in the mouth (so do follow the advice to deal with this) and the saltiness of the cooking liquid. If you use this to make a sauce, do not add any salt.Cockles are mostly shells and water: for 1 kg of cockles you will only end up with around 100 g of useful cockle meat (90% waste).