>>Chardonnay is by far my favorite white grape.
I love it in barrels and I love it in stainless.
I am doing a wonderful recipe for you today.
It's an oyster recipe that we're going to do with a stainless Chardonnay.
So in my bowl I have a 1/2 pound of butter that's room temperature and I just wanna kind of scrunch that up and I've got a glove on so that I don't get it everywhere.
To that, I'm going to add one bunch of flat leafed parsley that I just chopped.
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This is so delicious and it has lots and lots of flavor components with it.
And then I'm going to use some sea salt.
Now, anytime you're using seafood, use sea salt.
1/2 teaspoon.
Now let's just mix that up, and I wanna take 1/2 of it out of my bowl.
So I'm just gonna leave 1/2 in, take 1/2 out.
And to what's still in my bowl, I'm going to add a cup of breadcrumbs that are fresh that have just been grated.
And some Parmesan cheese, about a 1/2 cup.
Let's mix that up.
Mm, this smells delicious.
I just love all of that garlic in there.
It's wonderful.
Now, let's just get all this off because I now wanna zest a lemon and I wanna squeeze that lemon juice into the mixture.
Now I wanna take one nice size lemon and let's just zest that up.
Get all that zest off that you can, because it really adds to these oysters.
And I like to just grate it.
And this is a more coarse grater so what I'm getting is a lot of flavor in every single little piece.
And get off all the zest you can and make sure you scrape off the back of your zester to get off all of that deliciousness.
There we go.
And now I wanna cut that just in two and I'm gonna take out all the juice.
It's nice and soft.
I've already squeezed it.
Make sure that you don't drop in the seeds.
You don't wanna bite into a seed when you're biting into a delicious, soft, creamy oyster.
There we go.
So there's the juice of about 1/2 a lemon.
I'm gonna use 1/2 a lemon and just a tiny bit more.
This should give us about three tablespoons of lemon juice, which is what I'm looking for.
There we go.
Now I can just go back in and mix that a little bit with a spatula.
Get that all mixed through.
Mm.
Now let's grab those oysters.
And I'll show you how to put them together.
And you can always do this on the grill but you can also do it under your broiler.
So here I have a pint of fresh oysters.
These are select oysters.
And I want to just pull one out and put it into my nice little shell right there.
Just like that.
And then what I wanna do is take just a scoop of this bread mixture, and I want crumble that on top.
Just like that.
You can give it a little air between the oyster and the crumble.
That's fine.
And I'm gonna do that with all of them.
And then I want to top this with just a little bit of just the butter mixture, no extra breadcrumbs.
Right on the top.
I'm going to assemble all of these and then place them on the top rack of my grill that's set at about 450 degrees.
Takes about five minutes and then they're gonna be absolutely incredible.
So let's put these on our back rack.
And you want to bake these until the oysters just begin to curl.
I love to plate these with a little herb underneath.
It gives great color, and of course, some lemon wedges.
So let's try this with our stainless steel Chardonnay.
Stainless steel chardonnay, unlike a barrel oaked Chardonnay should be crisp and clean.
It should have flavors of green apple and be very vibrant with the fruit.
The stainless Chardonnay works so well with the oysters because the acidity in the stainless steel Chardonnay really cuts through the brininess and this butteriness of this beautiful dish.
So let's give it a little taste.
Mm.
Just wanna get a little tiny piece there.
There we go.
Ooh.
Mm, lemon, garlic.
Mm, oyster.
Wow, it's amazing.
(soft romantic music) This is a delicious pairing.
And next time you wanna do oysters, try them on the grill and pair them up with a little stainless steel Chardonnay.
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