Oysters and Leeks with a Guinness Hollandaise

Name: Oysters and Leeks with a Guinness Hollandaise
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 1 shallot, peeled and chopped; 2 free-range egg yolks; 1-2 teaspoons lemon juice; 12 fresh oysters; 4-5 tablespoons (double) cream; 2 leeks, trimmed, thinly sliced and well rinsed; 125 g (generous 4 oz) unsalted butter

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Modern Classics

By Frances Bissell

Published 2000

About

This next recipe is a very special dish for two –rather more time-consuming to make for more people, unless you have help in the kitchen.

Ingredients

12 fresh oysters
125 g (generous 4 oz) unsalted butter

Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Carefully open the oysters, and strain their juice into a small hollandaise saucepan. Put the oysters to one side, and keep the deep shells.

Take 25 g (1 oz) the butter, in it sweat the leeks