Oysters Rockefeller Recipe | James Beard Foundation

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup chopped fennel
• 1/3 cup chopped parsley
• 1/4 cup chopped celery
• 1/4 cup chopped shallots, or green onions if shallots are not available (as a matter of fact, in New Orleans they call green onions “shallots”)
• 1 teaspoon chopped chervil
• Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
• Pinch of cayenne
• 1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter
• 2 cups watercress
• 1/3 cup Pernod
• 1/3 cup bread crumbs
• Rock salt
• 2 dozen oysters on the half shell