Oysterss dressed with spinach
Technical Stages :
- Shuck the oysters. Save the water of the oysters in a container. Remove them from the shell.
- Thinly the shallots.
- Place them in a saucepan along with the white wine.
- Add the filtered water of the oysters.
- the spinach leaves in a boiling salted water in a saucepan for a few minutes. in a container full of icy water to fix the colour of the spinach.
- To the oysters, pour them in the white wine and shallots mixture and gently bring to a simmer.
- Once simmering, remove from the heat and leave to poach for a few minutes. Then place them on paper towel.
- Lay the spinach leaves flat on a clean cloth. Roll up the oysters one after another into the leaves to make small packs. Keep warm.
- the rest of wine and shallots.
- Meanwhile, the tomatoes. Remove the flesh in petal shape and crush them in a small regular.
- When there is only one tablespoon of white wine left in the saucepan, add a bit of cold water (1 to 2 tsp.) and bring to a boil. Add chilled butter cut into pieces and thoroughly mix using a whisk. This emulsion must be made on very high heat to obtain a creamy texture.
- Strain the sauce using a or fine sieve by pressing well to extract maximum flavors.
- Add the diced tomatoes and keep warm. Adjust seasoning. Go easy with salt as the water of the oysters is naturally salted.
- From then, the sauce should not boil anymore or it would loose its creamy texture.
- Place the hot oysters nicely on a plate and coat them with warm sauce.
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