Ingredients
20 g | Butter, softened |
80 g | Mascarpone |
1 clove | Garlic, finely chopped |
1 | Lemon, for 2 tsp juice |
1 to taste | Ground black pepper |
1 to serve | Sea salt |
3 sheets | Puff pastry |
12 | Oysters, in the half shell |
1 | Egg |
Directions
- Preheat oven to 220C.
- Combine the mascarpone, butter, garlic and lemon juice. Stir until smooth. Add grind of black pepper.
- Lay enough rock salt on a baking tray to be able to wedge the oyster shells in.
- Roll the pastry out thinly and cut into rounds that just fit over each oyster shell. Place a teaspoon of the mascarpone mixture on top of each oyster.
- Whisk the egg and brush around the rim of each shell, lightly press on the pastry and brush with egg.
- Lay the oysters in the rock salt and bake for seven to eight minutes or just until the pastry is puffed and golden.