Ingredients for Oyster Stew Recipe

Video Transcript

"My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today, I'm going to show you how to shuck an oyster and how to prepare them a couple of different ways. Alright, say you're in a hurry, you just realized you have to make oyster soup and you don't have a whole lot of time. In general to make soup you don't need a whole lot of time. All you need for one serving, six oysters, one tablespoon of butter and a cup of milk. And also, you're going to need a pot and a stove. Let's get started on making this soup. Alright, the first thing we're going to do is turn our heat on. Take our milk and pour it right into the pan, shake all the milk out. And while that's going on, we're going to take our oysters and just take the knife, run it along the bottom here, make sure they're released from their shells. Because what happens is there is connective tissue in the bottom that will actually hold them in their shells, which means they won't fall out very easily. Of course, you can skip this step if you buy your oysters already out of the shell, which I know you can do in a couple of specialty food retailers. And, if you're doing that, then this soup takes even less time to make. Our milk, rather, is only going to take about a minute to start boiling. Alright, so all of our oysters are done here. We're ready to go. So, let's come back when our milk's boiling to finish this off real quick."