BBQ Oysters With Blue Cheese Dipping Sauce

These BBQ oysters are a wonderful appetizer and the blue cheesed dipping sauce is awesome! Serve on the half shell for a beautiful presentation.

Recipe ingredients:

• 6 Louisiana Oysters, free of sand/grit
• 2 ounces Barbeque Oyster Sauce (see direcions)
• 1 ½ ounce blue cheese dressing
• Seasoned flour
• Chopped parsley
• 6 oyster shells
• Blue Cheese Crumbles
• Barbeque Oyster Sauce
• 5 ounces TABASCO Pepper Sauce
• 2 ½ Tbsp. honey
• 3 ¼ Tbsp. clarified butter

Directions:

1. Drain oysters and toss in seasoned flour.
2. Fry until golden.
3. Barbeque Oyster sauce should be kept in a warm place until needed.
4. Toss oysters with sauce and chopped parsley and place in shells.
5. Place shells on dinner plate lined with rock salt with the small end of the oyster facing the middle of the plate.
6. Put blue cheese dressing in bullet and garnish with chopped parsley and place in the center of the place.

BBQ Oyster Sauce

1. Combine margarine and honey and warm to 100 degrees.
2. Using a hand blender, add hot sauce in a steady stream.
3. Sauce will emulsify.
4. For service, sauce should be warmed but not heated or sauce will break.
   

Cook/Prep Time: 1 Hour
Servings: 2

Recipe and photo courtesy of Louisiana Seafood and Marketing Board. Name of Chef: Gregg Collier. Used with permission.

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