Oyster Tartare Sauce with Potato Chips

TOTAL TIME: 25 MIN
SERVINGS: 4 to 6

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This ingenious, briny sauce couldn’t be simpler: Chef René Redzepi purees raw oysters with a little of their liquor, plus rice vinegar and oil. He adds diced blanched vegetables for texture, then serves the dip with potato chips.

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Potato chips, for serving
2 teaspoons rice vinegar
Salt and freshly ground pepper
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
1/3 cup grapeseed oil
1/2 medium carrot, cut into 1/4-inch dice
1 medium red or white turnip, peeled and cut into 1/4-inch dice
5 freshly shucked oysters, plus 2 tablespoons oyster liquor

Bring a medium saucepan of salted water to a boil. Add the carrot and turnip and simmer over moderately high heat until just tender, 2 minutes. Drain well and let cool.
In a blender, puree the oysters with their liquor. With the machine on, slowly pour in the oil and puree. Blend in the vinegar. Scrape the sauce into a bowl. Fold in the carrot, turnip and parsley and season with salt and pepper. Set the bowl over crushed ice and serve the dip with potato chips.

Suggested Pairing

When grown in the French seaside region of Muscadet, the Melon de Bourgogne grape produces wines that are crisp, with a salty edge—perfect with oyster dishes like this one.