Cuckooflower (Cardamine pratensis)

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Cuckooflower butter

  • Makes: ± 125 g
  • Time: 15 min + 1 hr chilling
  • From: Cuckooflower

Ingredients

  • 125 g soft butter
  • 1 small handful of young cuckooflower leaves (± 15 g)
  • 1 small shallot
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
  • a pinch of sea salt

Method

  1. Let the butter soften at room temperature.
  2. Rinse the leaves, pat them dry and chop them finely. Chop the shallot very finely.
  3. Mash the butter with a fork and mix in the leaves, shallot, lemon juice and salt.
  4. Spoon the butter onto cling film or baking paper, roll it into a log and leave it to firm up in the fridge for at least an hour.

Storing: A week in the fridge, or 3 months in the freezer. Lovely on fresh bread, new potatoes, a piece of pan-fried fish or a steak.

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