Oysters Po Boy

Name: Oysters Po Boy
Yield: Serves 1
Ingredients: 1 tomato, sliced thinly; 2-3 thin slices of sweet pickled cucumber (gherkin); 100 ml vegetable oil; 1 good soft bread roll (not crusty); 2 tablespoons celeriac rémoulade; 1 medium egg, beaten with 2 tablespoons milk; a few rings of raw red onion (optional); tomato ketchup; hot chilli sauce (optional); ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper; 3 tablespoons cornmeal; 6 rock oysters; large-flaked sea salt

Preparation info

Serves
1

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

What to Eat Now (Autumn & Winter)

By Valentine Warner

Published 2008

About

This is a very delicious but deeply unhealthy sandwich - but who cares. This is real cops-on-stakeout eating-in-car food. If you are worried, neutralize the effect with a dinner of grated carrots, or no dinner at all. Known as the ‘peacemaker’, this really will shut you up once you have finished it.

Ingredients

1 good soft bread roll (not crusty)

Dinner
Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

Preheat the grill to full.

Shuck the oysters and leave to one side in their juice. On a plate, mix together the cornmeal, cayenne pepper and 1 teaspoon salt.

Heat the vegetable oil in a small frying pan. Get it nice and hot, but not smoking. Test the temperature by adding a small pinch of bread, which should frizzle immediately. If not hot