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RECIPE FOR:
Oysters with Garlic Pine Nut Butter
Ingredients:
1/4 cup Pine nuts
3 Garlic cloves; peeled
2 Shallots; peeled
2 tb Parsley, fresh; chopped
2 tb Chives, fresh; chopped
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2 tb Juice, lemon
1 tb Brandy
1 ts Pepper, black
3/4 cup Butter; room temperature
18 Oysters; in shells, scrubbed
Rock salt
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Method
Scatter pine nuts in a pie plate and bake in a 180șC oven
until golden, 4-6 minutes. Pour toasted nuts into a food processor along with the garlic,
shallots, parsley, chives, lemon juice, brandy and pepper; whirl until finely chopped.
Slowly add the butter and pulse until just blended; bits of all the ingredients should
still be visible. Shuck oysters and discard top shells. Nestle oysters, in their bottom
shells, in a 1/2 inch layer of rock salt in a baking pan or shallow oven-proof dish. Spoon
about 1 teaspoon butter on top of each oyster (freeze leftover butter) Bake oysters in a
180șC oven until they become firm and butter melts, 8-10 minutes.
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