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Savoury butters can be used for sauces or to garnish various vegetable, fish and meat dishes. It’s easy to make savoury butter. Just soften butter in a bowl and blend in your preferred ingredients. If you’re using herbs or vegetables to flavour your butter, a mortar and pestle will come in handy. Once the ingredients are incorporated, flatten the butter between two sheets of grease-proof paper and refrigerate it if you want to cut it into shapes. Read on for some savoury butter recipes.

Lemon butter

Perfect for fish dishes, blend the finely grated rind of one lemon with 100 grams of softened butter. Season with salt and pepper.

Garlic butter

Crush four peeled cloves of garlic and then blend the garlic with 100 grams of butter. Serve your garlic butter with baked potatoes or grilled fish.

Mustard butter

Using 100 grams of softened butter, blend in one tablespoon of dry mustard powder.

Spinach butter

Pound 125 grams of blanched and well-drained spinach. When it is a smooth paste, incorporate it thoroughly with 100 grams of butter.

Chive butter

Use half a cup of chives to 100 grams of softened butter for this recipe. Blanch and drain the chives before finely chopping them and grinding them to a paste, then mix this paste into the butter.

Tomato butter

Tomato butter can be added to soups or sauces, or served with meat dishes. Blend two tablespoons of tomato paste with 100 grams of butter.

Anchovy butter

Anchovy butter can be added to a white sauce or it can be served with fish or meat dishes. Remove the salt and oil from six anchovy fillets by rinsing them under cold water. Dry them well and then work them through a wire sieve. Blend the anchovy paste with 100 grams of butter.

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