How To Cook Oysters, Angels On Horseback Recipe

How To Cook Oysters, Angels On Horseback Recipe

Preparation Time: 5 Minutes Cooking Time: 6 Minutes Serves 4 Ingredients: 12 Fresh shucked oysters 6 Rashers of streaky bacon each cut in half Salt and pepper to taste Tabasco sauce Sprinkling of freshly grated Parmesan cheese Cooking Instructions: Brush a little Tabasco onto one side of the bacon. Wrap the bacon around each oyster securing with a cocktail stick, then season. Place under the grill for three minutes, remove and turn, then sprinkle some cheese on top of each Angel and place back under under the grill for a further three minutes. Remove from the grill, place in shells and serve with crusty bread.

Oyster Recipes, How To Make Angels On Horseback

There are a great many variations of this dish, the principle is oysters wrapped in bacon or ham. You can add a bit of a kick with a number of different ingredients. My preferred version utilises Italian bacon (pancetta) coated with Tabasco. If you're not partial to Tabasco feel free to try a sprinkling of paprika, or your preferred spice.

If you haven't shucked (de-shelled) oysters before be very careful, I can't stress this enough, or better still get your fishmonger to open them for you. If you're going to do it yourself make sure you have the appropriate utensil. This is one job where you will need the best quality tool you can afford, to open some oysters requires a good technique or significant amount of force, in some cases both! Serving the Angels in their shells makes for a wonderful presentation.

A word about Kentish ingredients, you can source local oysters and ham or bacon when in season. If you get this right it looks and tastes absolutely fantastic. Definitely one recipe worth perfecting.

As with all shellfish make sure you get your oysters from a reliable supplier.

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