Baked Oysters with Bleu Cheese Recipe

Baked Oysters with Bleu Cheese Recipe

Ingredients:

3 ozs of blue cheese; crumbled
2/3 c of cream
4 Tbsps of wine (dry white)
2 yolks
Salt
Pepper
2 dozen oysters (plump & fresh)
2 Tbsps of parsley (flat leaf); chopped
4 Tbsps of olive oil
4 Tbsps of milk
1/2 lb of potatoes; skins removed

Instructions:

Boil potatoes with salt until they are tender. Remove water then mash up red potatoes adding milk, parsley and olive oil.

Clean fresh oysters then detach the flesh from its shells. Reserve its juice then set it aside. Wash only and keep bottom part of its shell then discard its crown shell.

Place the yolks inside a double-boiler then whisk with wine. Continue whisking ’till the volume’s double in size. Using a different pan, blend together Blue cheese and cream. Boil it for three minutes and then turn off heat.

Incorporate juice of the fresh oyster, mix well then fold into your yolk mixture. When ready to eat, scoop mashed up potatoes onto the lower shell, layer oysters over potatoes then decant sauce over top.

Grill each shell for five minutes ’till nicely golden in color. Best when served warm.

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