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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
French at Heart: Recipes That Bring France Home

By Marjorie Taylor and Kendall Smith Franchini

Published 2025

  • About

Crisp fresh radishes, good butter, and fleur de sel make the perfect trio for a French apéritif; it’s no wonder radis au beurre (which we always shorten to “radis beurre” at home as our own form of French slang) is a standard apéro all over France. We like to say that once you’ve eaten radis au beurre like this, though, you will never simply dip raw radishes into a bowl of butter again. It isn’t traditional, but so much more elegant: We dip the radishes in a quick butter mousse, made