Puff Pastry Cases Filled with Oysters and Green Peppercorns

Name: Puff Pastry Cases Filled with Oysters and Green Peppercorns
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 2 sticks celery; 350 g/12 oz puff pastry; 24 oysters; 1 carrot; ½ small leek; 225 g/8 oz butter; 2 tsp green peppercorns; Salt and freshly ground white pepper; juice of ½ lemon; 120 ml/4 fl oz double cream; 300 ml/½ pint fish stock; 1 tbsp milk; 115 g/4 oz cooked leaf spinach; 1 egg yolk, beaten

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A Feast of Fish

By Ian McAndrew

Published 1989

About

This delicate and exciting dish requires very little cooking; once the pastry is made, the rest is easy. The addition of the vegetables gives the dish a little ‘crunch’.

Ingredients

24 oysters
1 carrot
½ small leek
2

Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 220°C/425°F/Gas Mark 7.

Cut the carrot, leek and celery into fine julienne about 5 cm/2 inches long. Roll out the puff pastry to a thickness of 5 mm/¼ inch. Using a small, sharp knife, cut out 4 oval shapes, about 10 x 7.5 cm/4 x 3 inches. L