Summer herb butter

  • Portion size: Serves 8
  • Takes 15 min to make
  • Difficulty: easy

This herb butter recipe can be used in many ways: tossed through vegetables such as new potatoes, peas, or baby carrots or stirred through cooked pasta, lentils or gnocchi. You could also dot it over freshly barbecued sweetcorn and baked potatoes.

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Ingredients

  • 250g semi-salted butter, at room temperature
  • 10g fresh chives, roughly chopped
  • 15g fresh tarragon, leaves picked
  • 5g fresh parsley leaves
  • 2 sprigs fresh thyme, leaves picked
  • Finely grated zest of ½ lemon
  • 2 tsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • ½ tsp salt
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Method

  1. Put the butter into the smallest bowl of your food processor and add the fresh herbs, lemon zest, lemon juice and ½ tsp salt.
  2. Turn on the machine and blend together until everything is well mixed and the herbs are nicely chopped. You can use the herb butter immediately, or divide it in half and spoon it in a line down the centre of 2 pieces of non-stick baking paper or cling film. Roll it up in the paper or cling film, shape into neat rolls that measure about 4cm in diameter and fold over the ends to seal. These can now be kept in your fridge for up to 1 week, or in the freezer for up to 1 month.
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  • Nutrition

    • 117kcals Calories
    • 12.9g (8.1g saturated) Fat
    • 0.2g Protein
    • 0.2g (0.1g sugar) Carbs
    • 0.4g Salt

    Quick wins & tips

    Roll into a cylinder inside baking paper or cling film (see step 2), it will keep in the fridge for a week.

    Make Ahead

    To freeze, roll as above; it will keep for up to 1 month in the freezer, ready to slice with a warm knife and serve on top of some grilled chicken, fish, steaks or prawns.

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