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How To Make Lemon Butter

How To Make Lemon Butter
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In this tutorial Rob Cottam from Leiths School of Food and Wine shows you how to prepare a lemon butter. Once the butter is made, you can use it to stuff under the skin of your chicken when you roast it, or you could put it on a chicken supreme and allow the butter to melt over the top. Enlarge In this tutorial Rob Cottam from Leiths School of Food and Wine shows you how to prepare a lemon butter. Once the butter is made, you can use it to stuff under the skin of your chicken when you roast it, or you could put it on a chicken supreme and allow the butter to melt over the top.

At a glance

Preparation Time:
35 minutes
Total Time:
35 minutes


Ingredients

  • 55 g butter, at room temperature
  • 1 lemon

Method

Using a very fine grater, remove the zest of the lemon. Only use the very yellow outer zest, as the pith is bitter.

Add your lemon zest to your butter and combine with a spoon until it is evenly distributed. Add a pinch of salt and a grind of pepper, then mix the butter again.

Wrap the butter in cling film and roll into a log. Put the butter into the fridge for 30-45 minutes until it has gone hard, then cut into slices.