Melba Toast with Pimiento Butter
Preparation info
- Serves
4
- Difficulty
Medium
- Ready in
15 min
Appears in
Published 1997
Melba toast, those wafer-thin crisp triangles of toasted bread, go well with any delicate soup. I like to serve it with a flavoured butter that has some connection with the soup. This particular butter is delicious with Roasted Tomato Soup with Green Dumplings.
Ingredients
For the Melba toast
8 slices
Method
- To make the Melba toast, toast the bread, remove the crusts and slice the toast horizontally through the middle to make two thin slices. Cut these into triangles and toast the uncooked side briefly under a hot grill, allowing the toast room to curl. Cool on a rack.
- To make the butter, liquidise the red pepper. Cream the butter until it’s soft and fluffy. Beat the
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