Zesty Smoked Oysters

Name: Zesty Smoked Oysters
Ingredients: 1 cup fish stock or bottled clam juice; 6 garlic cloves, minced; 1 cup fish stock or bottled clam juice; fresh ground black pepper to taste; ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil; Several liberal dashes of Louisiana Hot Sauce; 1 cup fresh lemon juice; 2 tbs. dry vermouth (or lemon or orange vodka); 2 tbs. dry vermouth (or lemon or orange vodka); ¼ cup fresh chopped parsley; 2 tbs. dry vermouth (or lemon or orange vodka); 5 pounds of crushed ice; 2 dozen fresh oysters in their shells; 2 dozen fresh oysters in their shells

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Ultimate Guide to Grilling

By Rick Browne

Published 2011

About

Serve with lemon wedges, Louisiana Hot Sauce, and black pepper. Please, please do not serve these with “cocktail sauce”–you’ll love the wonderful marinade flavors!

Ingredients

Marinade/Mop

1 cup fish stock or bottled clam juice
6 garlic cloves, minced
Several liberal

Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Mix all the marinade ingredients thoroughly. Shuck the oysters and separately retain the oyster liquor and shells. Place the oysters in a Ziploc bag, add the marinade, and refrigerate mixture for 1-2 hours.

Heat the smoker or grill to a temperature of 300° to 350° degrees. If using kettle smoker and briquettes put them on both sides of kettle, leaving open space in the center of the gri