Flavoured Butters

15 November 2016 Gluten Free Vegetarian Friendly
Flavoured butters are a fridge essential. They are fantastic melted on steamed or roasted vegetables, smeared onto fish fillets before baking, on steak or chicken or stirred into warm rice or grains before serving. I also like to keep some in the freezer to grate onto baked potatoes. I hope you experiment and find your flavour of choice.

Anchovy Butter

  • 10 anchovy fillets, rinsed and patted dry
  • 1/2 clove of garlic or confit garlic, finely chopped
  • 1 tbsp finely chopped parsley
  • 10 anchovy fillets
  • Finely chop together the garlic, parsley and anchovies. You can either do this by hand or in a mini chopper. Mix into the softened butter with a wooden spoon until all combined.
  • Chill mixture and mould into a sausage shape and roll with cling film or baking parchment.

Miso Butter

  • 100g butter at room temperature
  • 75g (1/4 cup) white miso
  • 15g chives, finely chopped
  • 1 spring onion, finely chopped
  • 1 tsp grated fresh ginger (optional)
  • Combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix with a wooden spoon.
  • Chill mixture and mould into a sausage shape and roll with cling film or baking parchment.

Herb Butter

  • (this is the butter I used here on salmon)
  • 100g butter at room temperature
  • 3 spring onions (scallions) roughly chopped (white and green parts)
  • 1 small clove of garlic
  • 1 small bunch of each parsley, dill and tarragon and thinly sliced chives (you can also use coriander, basil, marjoram)
  • zest of 1 lemon and the juice of half a lemon (approx 1 tbsp)
  • salt and pepper
  • Put all the herbs, spring onions, garlic and lemon zest in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a blade.
  • Chop all the herbs together and add the softened butter, lemon juice, salt and pepper and blitz until combined.
  • Chill mixture and mould into a sausage shape and roll with cling film or baking parchment.
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