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20 ways to dress oysters

Delicious when naked, even better when they're dressed.
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Topped oysters make top oysters. These sea-salty bivalves make good friends with fresh and zingy dressings, smoky bacon, and gentle heat from horseradish and chilli. And as always, butter, especially Analiese Gregory’s seaweed butter, makes everything better (oysters included).

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Buy a dozen or more of the most popular varieties this festive season and shuck on.

A brass plate with two oysters in their shells made Rockefeller style.
Photo: Chris Court

Warrigal greens Rockefeller

Photo: Will Horner

Leigh Street Wine Room’s oysters with pepperberry mignonette

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Freshly shucked oysters with tarragon dressing
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Sean Moran’s freshly shucked oysters with tarragon dressing

Barbecued oysters with finger-lime mignonette
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Barbecued oysters with finger-lime mignonette

Photo: Will Horner

Bennelong’s oysters with lemon-pepper granita

Over the top shot of six shucked oysters, arranged in a circle, on a bed of salt. Each oyster is topped with a pomegranate dressing and tiny green herb leaves.
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Oysters with pomegranate dressing

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Oysters with two sauces recipe
Photo: William Meppem

Oysters with two sauces

Grilled oysters with seaweed butter
Photo: Adam Gibson

Analiese Gregory’s grilled oysters with seaweed butter

Photo: Will Horner

Raes on Wategos’ oysters with lemon-aspen vinegar, anise-myrtle oil and finger lime

Photo: Ben Dearnley & William Meppem

Oysters with spicy fennel

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Photo: Ben Dearnley

Grilled oysters with lemongrass creme fraiche, fried garlic and lime

Photo: William Meppem

Curtis Stone’s oysters with Champagne and caviar

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Beau Clugston’s grilled oysters with tapioca

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Freshly shucked oysters and mignonette

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Photo: Ben Dearnley

Roast oysters with horseradish

Photo: Chris Court

Barbecued oysters with bacon-chilli-tamarind sauce

Photo: Prue Ruscoe

Lightly steamed XO oysters with bacon crumbs

Photo: William Meppem

Oysters Rockefeller

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Photo: Con Poulos

Oysters with wasabi nori and lime dressing

Photo: John Paul Urizar

Oysters two ways, with cucumber-lime dressing and cabbage-ginger tsukemono

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