Warm rock oysters with spring onion butter sauce

Name: Warm rock oysters with spring onion butter sauce
Ingredients: 2 dozen oysters; 100 ml white wine; 1 shallot- chopped; 500 g unsalted butter; 1 tablespoon crème fraîche; Juice of 1 lemon; Salt, freshly ground black pepper and Tabasco sauce; Salt, freshly ground black pepper and Tabasco sauce; Salt, freshly ground black pepper and Tabasco sauce; 6 spring onions - finely sliced

Preparation info

For
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Salt is Essential

By Shaun Hill

Published 2016

About

Rock oysters are good served warm; natives would be a waste of their extra cost.

Ingredients

2 dozen oysters
100 ml white wine
1 shallot- chopped

Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Shuck the oysters. Boil the shells and keep the molluscs in a bowl in a cold place until needed. You’ll find that they produce a fair amount of liquid after a short time.

Heat the white wine and shallot, then whisk in the butter, a knob at a time. Finish with the crème fraîche and season with the lemon juice, salt, black pepper and Tabasco. Add the spr