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Writer's pictureBobbi Jo Lathan

Oysters Rockefeller

Updated: Dec 31, 2023


Oysters Rockefeller

Once  Daddy and I sat down, the owner, Mike, would plop  some beers down on the counter for us, and we’d drink them while Mike shucked a dozen fresh oysters on the half-shell right in front of us. Daddy liked his with only lemon and salt and pepper, and I ate mine with Mike’s special hot sauce. But, you know what? It didn’t matter that the place was a little hole-in-the-wall.  What really mattered was that special time I got to spend with my Daddy –  in a funny,little place – with twinkling Christmas lights,  where we laughed and talked and shared between us, a dozen  of the best dadgum Appalachicola  oysters you’ll ever eat!

Oysters Rockefeller

Recipe by: Bobbi Jo Lathan

Recipe type: Appetizer

Cuisine: Traditional

PREP TIME

35 mins

COOK TIME

8 mins

TOTAL TIME

43 mins

INGREDIENTS


3 dozen fresh oysters in the shell (washed well)

1 medium onion (finely chopped)

½ cup butter

1 ½ cups fresh spinach (washed well and roughly chopped)

1 cup Romano cheese (grated)

⅓ cup panko bread crumbs

1 tablespoon lemon juice

1 dash of hot sauce (to your liking)

⅛ teaspoon pepper

½ teaspoon sea salt

4 cups kosher salt (for trays or pans)

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Shuck your oysters, keeping the bottom shell with the oysters in them, and set them aside.

  2. Now, in a large skillet, saute the chopped onion in butter and olive oil until translucent.

  3. Add the spinach and cook until wilted.

  4. Remove the onion/spinach mixture from the heat and stir in the hot sauce, cheese, lemon juice and salt and pepper.

  5. Spread the kosher salt onto two ungreased baking pans.

  6. Lightly press the oyster shells with the oysters resting in them down into the salt.

  7. Top each oyster with 1½ teaspoons of the spinach mixture and sprinkle lightly with bread crumbs. Bake, uncovered, at 450° for 6-8 minutes or until oysters are plump. And serve them delicious babies right away. YUM!!

NOTES

Mama would occasionally fry up 2 pieces of bacon and crumble it into tiny pieces and add them to the spinach mixture before spooning the mixture onto the oysters and baking them. You know us Southerners, we gotta have our bacon!


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