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Oysters Baked With Garlic Pine Nut Butter Recipe


   
Recipe Categories: Seafood Recipes
Yield: 18 oysters
 
Ingredients
  1/4  c Pine nuts  
  3   Garlic cloves; peeled  
  2   Shallots; peeled  
  2  tb Parsley, fresh; chopped  
  2  tb Chives, fresh; chopped  
  2  tb Juice, lemon  
  1  tb Brandy  
  1  ts Pepper, black  
  3/4  c Butter; room temperature  
  18   Oysters; in shells, scrubbed  
    Rock salt  
 
Instructions
 
  1. Scatter pine nuts in a pie plate nd bake in a 350 degree 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 375 degree oven until they become firm and butter melts, 8-10 minutes.

 
   


 



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