Easy Oysters Kilpatrick
The key to this very simple recipe is good ingredients and not overcooking. My oysters came off the water some time this morning, Can’t get much fresher than that unless your picking them off the rocks yourself.
There are probably dozens of different variations of oysters kilpatrick, but this is the simplest of them all and if follow my instructions you can’t go wrong.
Ingredients
1 Dozen oysters in the half shell
2 Rashes middle bacon
Worcestershire Sauce
Method
1. Dice the bacon and fry off it off in it’s own fat, you want it cooked but not crispy as it’s going to get some more cooking time under the grill.
2. Put the oysters on an oven proof tray, sprinkle evenly with bacon and add a small splash of the Worcestershire sauce to each oyster. No need to drown them as they have plenty of their own flavour.
3. Place under a medium to hot grill for 5-8 minutes, You’re not actually cooking the oysters, just warming them through.
4. Serve them up, being careful as the shells will be hot.
A lot of the recipes you’ll find tell you to place the raw bacon straight on top of the oyster and to grill them until the bacons crisp. I find this overcooks the oyster, something which can quite happily be eaten raw and only needs warming.
If you want the presentation to look a little more restaurant like, you can put a bed of rock salt on the serving plate so the oysters sit evenly. If you’re going to do this often then consider getting a bag of swimming pool salt from one of the discount stores. It will cost you almost as much as a kilo of salt from the supermarket. You can use it for other things as well like whole baked fish….. I will let you know when I try that one.
If you want to cook them in the oven crush up aluminium foil,straight it out a bit and then lay it down in the oven tray so the oysters have somewhere to lean.
Also leaves the oven tray clean.