Maître d'Hotel Butter
Recipe: #18910
May 09, 2015
"My wonderful mother gave me a superb Italian cookbook many, many years ago. It has a great savoury butter recipe. I have given variations for the different butters. Slices of butter can be used to garnish steaks, chops, chicken, fish or vegetables and I have also used it in sandwiches and canapé's. And best of all it can be frozen! After 1 hour of freezing portions can be cut off the roll and frozen individually for use on steaks or vegetables. To make open sandwiches and canapé's : Remove the crusts from the bread and spread with the savoury butter, cut into slices or shapes with cutters."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (14.3 g)
- Calories 89.9
- Total Fat - 10.1 g
- Saturated Fat - 6.4 g
- Cholesterol - 26.9 mg
- Sodium - 89.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 0.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0 g
- Sugars - 0.1 g
- Protein - 0.1 g
- Calcium - 3.1 mg
- Iron - 0 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.7 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Cream the butter and mix it with the parsley, lemon juice, salt and pepper.
Step 2
Roll the butter in a cylinder or tube shape, wrap in foil and chill on the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
Step 3
When ready, cut into slices to serve.
ALTERNATIVES
Step 4
ANCHOVY BUTTER~ Flavour the butter with 40gr of drained and finely chopped anchovy fillets.
Step 5
GARLIC BUTTER~ Flavour the butter with 3 crushed garlic cloves,
Step 6
GORGONZOLA BUTTER~ Mix the butter with 60gr Gorgonzola cheese.
Step 7
MUSTARD BUTTER ~ Mix the butter with 1 tablespoon of mustard. (your flavour/strength to taste).
Step 8
PRAWN BUTTER~ Mince or grind 40g of cooked, peeled prawns. Mix with the butter.
Step 9
SMOKED SALMON BUTTER~ Mince or grind 25gr of smoked salmon, and mix with the butter.
Step 10
TUNA BUTTER~ Mince or grind 50gr of drained canned tuna in brine or oil with the butter.
Tips
No special items needed.