Poultry cut: where it is, price, recipes
Oyster
Two rounds of dark meat nestled in hollows of the hip bone, one on each side of the back. You dig them out with your thumb; the French name means "the fool leaves it there", and the cook usually eats them first.
- Pan-seared
$18/ lb
- In French
- Sot-l'y-laisse
- Japanese side
- Sori (oyster)
- Where it sits
- Leg. The oyster's French name, sot-l'y-laisse, mocks the diner who never knew to look for it and left it on the bones.
- Tenderness
- 5/5
- Flavor
- 5/5
- Marbling
- 3/5
- Price
- $18 / lb ·
- Actual size
- ~4 cm
