For an easy but elegant appetiser, serve a platter of freshly shucked oysters on a bed of crushed ice
Ingredients (Serves 4)
24 oysters, freshly shucked
Crushed ice
Tabasco red pepper sauce
Method
Shuck the oysters, making sure that you loosen the flesh from the bottom shells but leave the liquor in.
Arrange the oysters on a platter of crushed ice, with a bottle of Tabasco red pepper sauce on the side for shaking over. Serve immediately.