Recipe

Fried Oysters

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Fried Oysters

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  • This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Home Alone Dinner
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    pas's Notes:

    For a bachelor dinner, it's either this or whole-wheat pasta with broccoli rabe and anchovies. Anyway, what's not to like about oysters and beer. What else can I say?

Serves me

  1. Whisk just enough beer to make the flour into a smooth paste.

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  2. Use immediately.

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  1. Shuck the oysters and heat the oil until it's almost smoking.

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  2. Batter each oyster and fry.

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  3. Flip oysters once and cook until golden brown.

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  4. Serve with a mayonnaise, oyster juice, Sriracha sauce. Or if you're feeling fancy, nuoc cham or gribiche sauce.

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  5. More beer is always good at this point.

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2 Comments on Fried Oysters

186003_1004761561_1198459_n Reply

Oh! I forgot how much I love fried oysters...thanks for the reminder.

Lnd_jen Reply

Okay, I love this. I always seem to make fried oysters when my husband is away (and often when he's *not* away), but there's something really indulgent about making them and not sharing :)

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