The Recipe

Oysters with Asian Style Mignonette

  • Oysters (This recipe will probably cover up to 2-3 dozen oysters, maybe more, try it)

  • 1/2 Cup Rice Vinegar

  • 1 Small Shallot, Minced

  • Juice of 1 Lime (1/2 lime if you want less lime)

  • 2 Tsp Mirin

  • 1 Tbsp Minced Cilantro (Use the stems too, we want texture)

  • 1/2 Tsp Minced Ginger

  • 1/2 Jalapeno, Seeded, Stemmed, Minced

  • 1/2 tsp Fish Sauce

Combine All ingredients in a bowl. Start with the Rice Vinegar and Shallot, and add the rest in order. The fish sauce at the end really brought out some of the heat, so end with that. Also it’s easy to go overboard with it.

Shuck the oysters and serve them raw on the half shell, saving as much of the juice as you can. Or cook them. Up to you.

Put the mignonette on the oysters.

 

The Bullshit

Man, this is the first recipe I put on here. Crazy. This SquareSpace stuff make this look pretty nice. Anyway…

My wife (Borat voice) and I really like this restaurant in Issaquah, Krawbar. They’ve got crazy good oyster shooters. Go eat there and support local restaurants (also their oyster shooters are better than this recipe). Uh, more backstory, we went to Hood Canal this summer and just got oysters off the beach, which was pretty rad, and that was the first time I cooked oysters. So now I wanted to try oysters at home.

So, to combine all of that, I first went and bought oysters. Easy first step. I put them in the fridge all day under a wet paper towel so they stayed alright, had a few beers, and looked up a bunch of mignonette recipes (and started a food blog). There weren’t a lot of Asian style ones, like the ones we had at Krawbar, so I decided to just fuck around and see how close I could get. This is that recipe.

We did this with raw oysters (you could do it with cooked ones too). If you want to cook them (they’re better raw), I’d say just throw the mignonette together, grill the oysters, then spoon this over as they cook on the grill until they seem done. If eating it raw, just serve like shown above with a spoon and let people do what they want.

I’m pretty happy with this one.