Recipe

October 7, 2022

Oyster + Mushroom Toasts

Recipe: Canada’s Smartest Kitchen + Jennifer Bryant

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“The Island Christmas potluck is the day of the year when there are the most oven mitts in one place. If you’re lucky, at least one friend will arrive with a towel-wrapped casserole or a Crock-Pot of baked beans in blackstrap molasses with a wedge of pork belly. Harvest favorites rise again as mugs of mussel chowder, baked oysters, or seafood dip with home-made potato chips. Guests exchange their dishes for warming mugs of spicy apple cider and this is a perfect dish to represent all of this.”

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 8 large cremini or button mushrooms, chopped
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • 1 pkg enoki mushrooms, ends trimmed (150 g)
  • ½ head radicchio, core removed, thinly sliced
  • 1/3 cup balsamic vinegar
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 12 oysters, scrubbed, shucked and shells discarded
  • Salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 baguette, sliced into ¼-inch rounds, toasted or grilled
  • 1 tbsp finely chopped chives

Directions

Yield: 4 Servings

  1. Heat oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Once hot, add cremini mushrooms and garlic, reduce heat to medium and cook for 3 minutes. Then add enoki mushrooms and radicchio; cook for 2 minutes. Deglaze pan with balsamic vinegar and honey, bring to a boil and let simmer for 1 – 2 minutes.
  2. Add the oysters and season with salt and pepper; cook for 1 – 2 minutes, until oysters are heated through.
  3. Spoon filling over toasted baguette slices, garnish with chives. Serve hot, immediately after assembling.
Author: Alexandra Whyte
Photographer:

Stephen Harris

Source:

Excerpted from Canada’s Food Island: A Collection of Stories and Recipes from Prince Edward Island by Farmers and Fishers of Prince Edward Island. Photography by Stephen Harris. Stories and captions by Stuart Hickox. Copyright © 2022 by Lobster Fishers of PEI. Excerpted with permission from Figure 1 Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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