How to Cook Well with Rory O'Connell airs on Wednesdays on RTÉ One at 8:00pm.
Ingredients
Serves 4
- 16 Pacific (Gigas) oysters
- 25g – 40g butter
- 1/2 teaspoon parsley, finely chopped
To Serve
- 4 segments of lemon
- 8 slices of hot buttered toast
Method
- Open the oysters and detach completely from their shells. Discard the top shell but keep the deep shell and reserve the liquid.
- Put the shells into a low oven to heat through. Melt half the butter in a pan until it foams. Toss the oysters in the butter until hot through - 1 minute perhaps.
- Put a hot oyster into each of the warm shells. Pour the reserved oyster liquid into the pan and boil up, whisking in the remaining butter and the parsley.
- Spoon the hot juices over the oysters and serve immediately on hot plates with a wedge of lemon and lots of hot buttered toast.
- Alternatively discard the shells and just serve the oysters on the hot buttered toast.