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Best Recipe for Oysters Kilpatrick

Making the best recipe for oysters kilpatrick

This right here is a classic, a guide for the best recipe for oysters kilpatrick. Simple, easy to customise with your own added flair, and absolutely timeless.

Find the recipe and ingredients below, as well as tips to improve with ingredients like cheese, lemon, and why Best Recipe recommends thick-cut bacon.

Best Oysters Kilpatrick Recipe

Difficulty: Easy

Servings

servings

Prep time

minutes

Cooking time

minutes

Simple and incredibly tasty Kilpatrick made with Worcestershire sauce and fresh crispy bacon. How good.

Ingredients

6 Fresh oysters
1 rasher of middle bacon (or a small portion of speck)
3 tsp Worcestershire sauce
Optional
500g rock salt (to serve upon)

Directions

Cut your bacon strip or small block of speck into small cubes and pour them onto a non-preheated pan.
Turn the pan on to medium and cook your bacon or speck until crispy but still soft in the middle (it should be more golden than blackened).
While your bacon is cooking, arrange your fresh oysters on your serving dish (serving on top of optional rock salt if you're feeling fancy and want that added flavour).
Once your bacon has finished, simply add it with your open oysters and divide Worcestershire sauce evenly across them.

Notes

If you can, ask your deli for a thicker rasher of bacon so you can cube it instead of having small squares. Speck is an alternative as you can shape it easier and have a more appealing texture.
To avoid the bacon flavours overpowering your fresh oysters, try to aim for a ratio of about 1:3 (oysters being the three).

Ways to improve and customise the best recipe for kilpatrick

Using speck or thicker cut bacon

Using speck or thick cut bacon is a great idea when making Oysters Kilpatrick for a few reasons.

For one, both speck and thicker cuts of bacon are much richer as they have a higher fat content. Starting these on a cold pan as recommended will mean rendering more fat (flavour) and add more richness.

And then, being thicker cut means you can shape them easier. There’s nothing more unsatisfying than thin little squares of bacon on Kilpatrick, especially as they’re often either over or undercooked. Using a thicker cut means getting that perfect crispy and chewy flavour, adding so much more to the final product.

Adding cheese to kilpatrick

This one is less important than using a thicker cut of bacon, but if you’re into cheese, creaminess, and overall adding flavour, adding cheese to the best recipe for kilpatrick will knock your socks off.

Grating a block of parmesan cheese adds both richness, texture and creaminess to kilpatrick. If you’d like to give it a try, you can pick up something like a block of Grand Padano from ALDI or fresh parmesan from other supermarkets and grate it on.

Add a very light covering so you don’t take away from other flavours and grill lightly to melt and add colour.

Zesting your kilpatrick (lemon)

Adding a squeeze of fresh lemon to your Oysters Kilpatrick is a must-try.

Adding an element from Samin Nosrat’s Salt Fat Acid Heat, the acidity of the lemon juice can cut through the rich and smoky bacon and Worcestershire sauce flavour and enhance the richness of the oyster.

Adding a touch of spice to your oysters kilpatrick

Including a bit of spice in your Oysters Kilpatrick is definitely worth trying, especially if you enjoy a bit of heat in your food.

Like the acidity of lemon juice, adding a bit of heat like Siracha or freshly cut chilli can enhance the flavour and richness of your oysters. If you’ve read a few of the recipes found on this site, you might have noticed a bias for Siracha in particular. That’s because it’s cheap, balances vinegar, sweetness, and spice, and is readily available in most Australian supermarkets.