So I gotta say, this is one of the weirdest recipes I have ever come up with. I love oysters. I could eat them natural for days. I also love pate. I was born in Vanuatu and as a French influenced island I grew up chowing down on pate from a very young age. Here’s my go-to recipe if you want to make some legit pate. Not too long ago I was introduced to smoked oysters & I’m a huge fan of the flavour but the texture is just all kinds of wrong. I mean, give me smoked anything and I’m sold but I just couldn’t love these oysters. I’d prefer that snotty slimy texture of a natural oyster to the weirdness of the smoked one, hence this pate recipe evolved.
I used John West tinned smoked oysters this time but I am going to hunt out a brand that uses pure olive oil rather than the $hitty vegetable oil that was in this lot. I think I have scoped some out on iHerb so I’ll add them to my next order. If you aren’t around the dangers of toxic vegetable oils you can read more about it here. One more side note, the weird green tinge, apparently that’s normal, it’s just remnants of what the oysters have been eating, you know plankton etc. Now, on to the pate!
Smoked Oyster Pate
Ingredients
- 170 g smoked oysters
- 1 clove garlic, diced
- 50 g french shallots, diced
- 150 ml port or brandy
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 2 eggs
- 200 g butter/ghee/coconut oil
- 1 tbs fresh thyme, chopped
Instructions
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Place the shallots, garlic, thyme, port in a bowl and mix well.
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Heat a frying pan over a medium heat and bring the shallot mixture to the boil, add in the oysters then reduce it until there is no liquid left; do not let it catch or burn.
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Take the oyster mix off the heat and tip it into a food processor. Blitz until you have a smooth purée. Add the softened butter or ghee and continue to blitz, then season well. Add the eggs & blend again. Transfer the mixture to some jars and cover with a few spoonfuls of melted ghee to seal.
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Place in the fridge overnight to set then dig in! These should keep for up to 2 weeks in the fridge while sealed with the ghee but we knocked them over much quicker than that.
Thanks for the yummy recipe, I adapted it to what I had in the fridge and used homemade raspberry vinaigrette instead of port and a soft boiled egg. I discovered The paleo diet and was looking for fun way to eat oysters.
Now I just need a grain free cracker to spread it on .
Thanks again
Glad you enjoyed it
Hi will this reciepie freeze well? Also the im a bit wierd on raw eggs.. is this totally safe to keep for at least a week with raw egg in it?
Thanks
You do you regarding the egg, I haven’t had a problem. Yes it freezes well
I recently made this and my daughter loved it. I only kept a small amount as I thought it had all separated and I threw the bulk away. It seemed to set well. Should it looked as though it separated before setting. People just loved what I’d kept and I wished I had kept it all. I will make this again.
Hmmm mine didn’t seperate but I’m sure if you just reblend it after it’s cooled it will be fine
raw eggs?
Yes