The Happy Home Cook: Mijo's Oyster Kilaw

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Mijo’s Oyster Kilaw

Mijo’s Oyster Kilaw

Ingredients

8 large oysters (shucked and in half shells)

Sauce/Marination

1/4 cup Coconut Cream

3 tbsp Cane Vinegar

1 tsp shallots (minced)

1/2 tsp garlic (minced)

1/2 tsp ginger (minced)

1 dash Tabasco hot sauce

1 pinch salt and pepper

Parsley Oil

1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil

2 tbsp parsley (finely minced)

1 pc garlic clove (smashed into paste)

1/2 tbsp Calamansi Juice

1 pinch salt and pepper

-Mix all ingredients with a whisk until well combined

Components

1 pc red Radish (cut in thin sticks)

1/4 Japanese cucumber (cut in small cubes)

Cilantro sprigs (for garnish)

Sea grapes (Lato) cut in half

Assembly

- Plate oysters on a bed of crushed ice (sprinkling salt in the ice helps them from melting too quickly)

- Pour a table spoon of the sauce/marinade on each oyster. 

- Place half a tsp of cubed cucumber on each.

- Followed by the radish sticks.

- Plate a cilantro sprig on each oyster as well as a pc of see grape. 

- Lastly, take a spoon and place each oyster with a drop of parsley oil. 

- Place in the freezer for 2 minutes or serve immediately. 

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Chef Enrique Moreno