FENNEL BUTTER
The Silver Spoon, Phaidon Press
For meat or broiled fish.
Ingredients
• 1 garlic clove
• 7 tablespoons butter, softened
• 2 teaspoons fennel seeds
• juice of 1/2 lemon, strained
• white pepper
Directions
Blanch the garlic in a small pan of boiling water for about 1 minute, then drain, peel and mash well with a fork.
Cream the butter in a bowl and beat in the garlic.
Grind the fennel seeds in a mortar with a pestle or in a spice grinder and beat into the butter.
Beat in the lemon juice and a pinch of white pepper.
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