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Huîtres a la Mornay

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. Mornay sauce
  2. Salt
  3. Butter
  4. two poached oysters
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Poach the oysters, and allow two per shell.
  2. Set the hollow shells, thoroughly cleansed, on a tray covered with salt.
  3. Cover the bottom of the shells with Mornay sauce;
  4. put two poached oysters into each;
  5. cover with the same sauce;
  6. sprinkle with grated cheese and melted butter, and set to glaze quickly.
  7. Serve instantly.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Grater