Smoked Oyster Surprises

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6-10

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Cooking for Christmas

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1978

  • About

You can serve these stuffed pork meatballs at a pre-Christmas supper for six, accompanied by vegetables or simply by bread and salad, but I like them best as a snack if friends come over for a drink, in which case they would serve about ten people. If you want to make them ahead, they also taste good eaten cold.

Ingredients

  • lb (625 g) lean minced pork
  • 1 large garlic clove

Method

Put the minced pork into a bowl. Peel the garlic and ginger, chop them together finely and then mix them into the pork, with the mustard, a sprinkling of salt and a generous grinding of black pepper. Drain the oysters, reserving the oil. Take up small handfuls of the pork mixture and flatten them out into circles like little hamburgers. Place a smoked oyster in the centre and wrap the meat up r