Roasted Oysters with Chipotle Butter

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Roasted Oysters with Chipotle Butter

Summary

Yield
Prep Time15 minutes
RecipeFirst Courses
Ingredientsoysters

Description

These Roasted Oysters with Chipotle Butter are yet another way to enjoy some of the sweetest tid-bits the sea has to offer.

Ingredients

  • 12 oysters
  • 6 T unsalted butter
  • 3 clv garlic cloves, peeled and roughly chopped
  • 3 canned chipotle peppers plus 1 1/2 tablespoons adobo (liquid reserved from the can)
  • 1 limes, juice only
  • rock salt
  • 1 scallion, white and pale-green parts only, thinly sliced

Instructions

1. Heat the oven to 450 degrees.
2. In a small skillet melt the butter. Set aside to cool slightly
3. In a mini food processor or blender purée the garlic, chipotles, adobo lime juice until smooth.
4. With the machine running drizzle in the butter slowly until emulsified. Transfer the mixture to a bowl.
5. Pour the salt onto a baking sheet. Place the oysters, cup-side down, on the rock salt. Roast until the oysters begin to open, 8 to 10 minutes.
6. Working over the bowl of the butter mixture (to capture the oyster liquor) remove the oysters from the oven and open them. Use a butter knife or similar tool inserted into the hinge end and pry them open with a twist. Separate the muscle at the top and the bottom. Discard the top shells. Mix the contents of the bowl very well. This is your chiplotle butter sauce.
7. Drizzle about 1 teaspoon of the chipotle butter sauce onto each oyster.
8. Return them to the oven until the butter melts and the oyster plumps and firms, about 3 minutes. Serve immediately

Notes

serves 2