Radishes With Butter And Fleur De Sel Recipes

SIMPLY FRENCH! RADISHES WITH BUTTER AND FLEUR DE SEL

Steps:

• Wash and gently dry your radishes. Snip the leaves off, or leave them on if they are very fresh.
• Serve the radishes with slightly softened butter and a bowl of fleur de sel sea salt or table salt.
• If you wish to serve this as a light supper or luncheon dish, serve with crusty bread.

RADISHES WITH BUTTER AND SALT

Steps:

• Arrange the radishes on a bed of sea salt. Spread the butter on slices of toasted bread and arrange artfully on a platter. Serve at room temperature.
• Herbed Butter:
• 1/4 pound unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 1/2 teaspoons minced scallions
• 1 1/2 teaspoons minced fresh dill
• 1 1/2 teaspoons minced fresh parsley leaves
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• Pinch freshly ground black pepper
• Combine all the ingredients in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment on low speed until combined. Do not whip.

RADISHES WITH BUTTER AND SALT

Steps:

• Arrange the radishes on a bed of sea salt. Spread the butter on slices of toasted bread and arrange artfully on a platter. Serve at room temperature.
• Combine all the ingredients in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment on low speed until combined. Do not whip.

RADISHES WITH HERBED RICOTTA DIP, SWEET BUTTER, AND FLEUR DE SEL

Steps:

• Make the dip: Stir ricotta, parsley, dill, and basil in a medium bowl. Season with salt and pepper.
• Serve radishes with bowls of dip, butter, and fleur de sel.

RADISHES WITH BUTTER AND FLEUR DE SEL

Steps:

• If the greens on your radishes are pretty, leave them on; if not, trim off the greens. If your radishes aren't completely dry, the butter will not cling to them. Arrange the radishes on a plate. Put the butter on the plate or in a small crock and the fleur de sel in a small pile on the plate or in a small dish.
• To eat, spread a thin film of butter on a radish, sprinkle with fleur de sel, and insert into your mouth.
• Possibly the best way to experience the pleasures of artisan salt is to use it on the simplest of foods. Make toast, butter your toast, sprinkle with a pinch of fleur de sel, and bite. A shimmer of salt, a wave of butter, a harvest of grain, and your mouth is alive. Which brings me to my point:
• Never, ever, ever buy salted butter. Ever. Why sully your butter with the refined industrial salt invisibly blended into butter when instead you could bless each bite with a kiss of fleur de sel and ascend to paradise?
• Of course, never, ever, ever is a long time. If you go to France and have a chance to buy beurre salé, a lovingly crafted butter typically using cream from grass-pastured cattle in Normandy combined with top-notch fleur de sel from south of Brittany, do so. Beurre salé is to mass-produced salted butter what fresh sushi is to frozen fishsticks. If you are like me, you will just grab a baguette, find a park bench, and sit there, watching the lovers stroll by and making sweet, sweet romance with your butter and bread.

RADISHES WITH SWEET BUTTER AND KOSHER SALT

Steps:

• Divide the radishes among small plates.
• Neatly cut the butter into 4 small portions, and set on plates.
• Pile a small amount of salt on each plate.

SLICED RADISHES AND WATERCRESS ON BUTTERED FICELLE

Steps:

• Spread some butter over bread slices. Sprinkle with fleur de sel. Top each bread slice with 2 watercress sprigs. Spread 1 side of each radish slice with butter. Place 2 radish slices atop watercress, buttered side down, overlapping slightly if necessary to fit. Top with flowers or sprouts, if desired. (Can be made 1 hour ahead. Cover; let stand at room temperature.)
• *Available at Italian markets and some specialty foods stores.