Les huîtres au gratin

Oysters cooked with cheese topping

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Magrets & Mushrooms: More Country Recipes from South-West France

By Jeanne Strang

Published 2024

  • About

Oyster sellers can draw on the extensive beds at Arcachon not far away to the West. Oysters are a regular feature of even quite modest households on feast days such as New Year’s Eve: strange, because you will find it hard to buy an oyster in London at any time between Christmas Eve and the middle of January when our fishermen seem to pack up altogether. Usually the French will eat them just as they are, perhaps with a little chopped shallot, vinegar or both, but more adventurous souls find