Oysters with a Thai kick, a great way to get a dinner party started!

Oysters With Green Nam Jim Sauce

Oysters With Green Nam Jim Sauce

Serves: 5 - 6

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Ready in: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

  • Oysters: 10 - 12 good quality fresh oysters of your choice
  • Dipping sauce:
  • 3 coriander roots
  • 3 cloves of garlic
  • 4 green bird eye chillies
  • Pinch of coarse sea salt
  • 1 thin (5mm) slice of galangal (optional)
  • 3 tbsp lime juice
  • 3 tbsp fish sauce
  • 1 tbsp golden or white caster sugar
  • Juice of one mandarin or tangerine (optional)
  • A few sprigs of coriander for garnish

Method:

  1. To make the dipping sauce, pound the galangal with the salt, and then pound the coriander roots, garlic and chilli to a fine paste.
  2. Stir in the lime juice, sugar and then fish sauce.
  3. Mix to dissolve the sugar, squeeze in the mandarin juice, taste and adjust with a tiny bit of either fish sauce, sugar or lime according to preference.
  4. Shuck the oysters and spoon over a little sauce just before serving. Decorate the plate with the coriander sprigs.

Recipe courtesy of Singha in partnership with Andy Oliver.


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