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Real Good Fish | Recipe | | Steamed Oysters with Chile, Ginger, and Cilantro | Bringing you the freshest sustainably caught LOCAL seafood!
Real Good Fish
Steamed Oysters with Chile, Ginger, and Cilantro
Ingredients

Quantities are for 12 fresh oysters.

INGREDIENTS


12 shucked oysters on the half shell, drained

2 tablespoons rice vinegar

2 tablespoons mirin (sweet rice wine)

12 small cilantro sprigs

2 tablespoons thinly sliced peeled fresh ginger

1 small fresh red chile, halved lengthwise, seeded, and cut into 12 thin strips

1/4 teaspoon Szechuan peppercorns, crushed

 

DIRECTIONS


1) Arrange 6 oysters on the half shell in a vegetable steamer.

2) Combine vinegar and mirin in a small bowl, and stir well. Drizzle 1 teaspoon vinegar mixture over each oyster; top each with 1 cilantro sprig, 1 slice of ginger, and 1 strip of chile. Sprinkle half of crushed peppercorns over oysters.

3) Steam, covered, 2 minutes or until edges of oysters curl. Repeat procedure with remaining oysters, vinegar mixture, cilantro, ginger, chile, and peppercorns. Serve warm.
 

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