Cornmeal Fried Oysters with Blue Cheese Dressing
Cornmeal Fried Oysters with Blue Cheese Dressing
An excellent pupu your guests will love!
Ingredients
- Blue Cheese Dressing
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 4 ounces blue cheese, crumbled
- 0.5 cup sour cream
- 0.25 cup buttermilk or regular milk
- 3 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
- 1 dash worchestershire sauce
- freshly cracked black pepper, to taste
- Oysters
- 1 quart fresh oysters, shucked
- vegetable oil, for frying
- 1 cup cornmeal
- 1 cup instant cornbread mix
- salt & pepper, to taste
Instructions
Blue Cheese Dressing
- Mix all the blue cheese dressing ingredients together; mix well.
- Cover and chill.
Oysters
- Heat a cast-iron skillet or thick bottom saute pan.
- Add enough vegetable oil for a shallow fry (about 1-1 1/2").
- Mix the cornmeal, cornbread mix, salt and pepper in a wide shallow bowl.
- Remove oysters from their liquid and roll each in cornbread mix, coating well.
- Fry oysters in hot oil and drain on paper towels or a rack set over a sheet pan.
- Lightly salt each oysters and serve hot with homemade blue cheese dressing.
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