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Clams oreganata is an
Italian American Italian Americans ( it, italoamericani or ''italo-americani'', ) are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry. The largest concentrations of Italian Americans are in the urban Northeast and industrial Midwestern metropolitan areas, ...
seafood Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans, prominently including fish and shellfish. Shellfish include various species of molluscs (e.g. bivalve molluscs such as clams, oysters and mussels, and cephalopods such as octopus an ...
dish served most commonly as an appetizer. The dish consists of a number of
clams Clam is a common name for several kinds of bivalve molluscs. The word is often applied only to those that are edible and live as infauna, spending most of their lives halfway buried in the sand of the seafloor or riverbeds. Clams have two shel ...
(usually six or twelve) that are topped with bread crumbs (usually moistened with olive oil or butter), oregano and sometimes other ingredients, and baked. Lemons are often included so that lemon juice can be squeezed onto the clams immediately before eating. The name "oreganata" comes from the addition of
oregano Oregano (, ; ''Origanum vulgare'') is a species of flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae. It was native to the Mediterranean region, but widely naturalised elsewhere in the temperate Northern Hemisphere. Oregano is a woody perennial pla ...
to the bread crumbs. Clams oreganata is commonly eaten on
Christmas Eve Christmas Eve is the evening or entire day before Christmas Day, the festival commemorating the birth of Jesus. Christmas Day is observed around the world, and Christmas Eve is widely observed as a full or partial holiday in anticipation ...
during the
Feast of the Seven Fishes The Feast of the Seven Fishes ( it, Festa dei sette pesci) is an Italian-American celebration of Christmas Eve with dishes of fish and other seafood. Origins and tradition The Feast of the Seven Fishes is part of the Italian-American Christmas Ev ...
, a traditional Italian-American meal centered around various seafood dishes.


See also

* Clams casino *
List of clam dishes This is a list of clam dishes and foods, which are prepared using clams as a primary ingredient. Edible clams can be eaten raw or cooked. Preparations methods include steamed, boiled, baked or fried. Clam dishes * Clams casino – a clam "on ...
* List of seafood dishes * New England clam bake


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Further reading

* Oreganata Italian-American cuisine Christmas food {{US-cuisine-stub