Oyster Recipes

If you want to keep your oysters raw, you can pair them with a simple, vinegary mignonette. Dip them in beer batter to make a crispy fritter, or bread them with cornmeal and pile them on French bread with lettuce and tomato for a traditional New Orleans po’boy. Check out our recipes for oyster stuffing, cooked in or out of your Thanksgiving turkey.

The creator, Antoine’s in New Orleans, carefully guards their method, but our version with an herb-filled roux and bread crumbs comes close. Other baked oyster preparations include stuffing the bivalves with spinach and bacon or crab and shrimp. Watch our video to see how to shuck an oyster » Brigtsen’s Oysters LeRuth Sweet crabmeat and shrimp enrich the stuffing of these broiled oysters.

Orange, Candied Onion, and Mint Mignonette This fragrant sauce is a bright accent to briny oysters, but it’s in addition delicious with clams, steamed crab legs, and shrimp. Veal Chops with Morels, Wilted Lettuce, Oysters, and Garlic-Parmesan Sauce Vin jaune, a semisweet wine from the Jura region of France, enlivens the creamy morel ragù in this elegant veal and oyster dish.

Oyster Stuffing Grilled Oysters with Butter Sauce * Grill these oysters over grapevine cuttings if you can get them. Oysters DuPont Oyster Po’boy This New Orleans po’boy is piled high with fried oysters.

Roasted Oysters in White Wine This elegant appetizer is deceptively easy to prepare—simply bake the oysters with coarse salt and top with a dry white wine. Broiled Stuffed Oysters Grated gruyere can be substituted for garlic in this dish.

It can be made with all sorts of elements—in this case country ham, shrimp, and oysters. Oysters in Gelée Chef Eric Ripert of Le Bernardin in New York City pairs Kumamoto oysters on the half shell with tiny, melt-in-your-mouth cubes of aspic in various flavors.

Sage-Brined Roast Turkey with Oyster Dressing This sage-infused roast turkey is stuffed with a bacon-enriched dressing brimming with wild rice, hazelnuts, and oysters. Get the recipe for Sage-Brined Roast Turkey with Oyster Dressing » Baked Oysters with Bacon and Spinach These baked oysters are a lighter take on the traditional oysters Rockefeller.

Fried Oysters with Spicy Rémoulade Oyster shells act as a natural serving platter for these crispy fried oysters with a creamy, spicy sauce. Mobile-Style Oysters This recipe for grilled or broiled oysters in a briny bath of butter, garlic, herbs, and Parmesan hails from Mobile, Alabama. Crabby Jack’s Oyster Po’boy Oysters are fried in a spicy cornmeal breading for this classic New Orleans sandwich.

Oysters Rockefeller The original oysters Rockefeller recipe is a closely guarded secret, but this version gets close with an herb-filled roux and a breadcrumb crust. Devils on Horseback In this version of the classic hors d’oeuvre, oysters are cooked with garlic and wine, then set “astride” toasted garlic bread slices and sprinkled with bacon.