The Louisiana Seafood Board offers a practical guide for the selection and preparation of oysters, you can serve this delicacy without fear.

What do oysters?

Oyster meat is creamy white to light brown with ragged edges and a silky texture. Avoid fluffy white oysters, because they are full of water. Oysters should not swim, but packed tightly with no more than 10 percent of liquid.

Oysters in pints or liters. Containers should be cleaned. Check if the government required information: Best-if-used-by date, allowing the values # Interstate Shellfish, weight, nutrition and country of origin.

Smell like oysters?

Oysters have a clean smell of the sea. Never buy oysters with an odor.

How much does a service?

Louisiana oysters are available all year round and vary in size from season to season. Skinny oysters at one of 30 pt. Middle or oysters fat is 16-18 per liter. In both cases, a pint is about three servings.

Oysters that taste?

American oyster, oyster eastern Gulf of Mexico oysters, oysters or Louisiana, are really all the same animal. In fact, there is only one oyster that is native to the Gulf and Atlantic coasts.

However, like good wine, oysters are subtle nuances of flavor, depending on where they are grown. In a blind tasting by an independent researcher of consumers chose Louisiana oysters sold in the U.S. about other 85 percent of the time.

Try this long favorite oysters in Louisiana.

Traditional Louisiana

Oysters

4 people

02:11 pints medium Louisiana oysters

02:01 cup shallots, diced

1 pint of milk

2 tbsp. Butter

Salt and pepper to taste