Oven-Roasted Garlic-Studded Ceps

Name: Oven-Roasted Garlic-Studded Ceps
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: salt and freshly ground black pepper; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 tbsp chopped parsley; 1 kg firm medium ceps; 200 g butter; 6-8 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Hix Oyster & Chop House

By Mark Hix

Published 2010

About

When ceps are in season during the autumn, there is nothing better than a plate of them simply roasted as a starter - or even as a side or vegetarian main course. I served this dish as a main course for everyone at dinner when a couple of my guests were vegetarian and I wanted a dish that would satisfy everyone. It went down a treat.

Ingredients

1 kg firm medium ceps
6-8 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced
200 g

Europe
United Kingdom
Dinner
Side dish
Starter
Vegetarian
Gluten-free
Autumn
Summer
Spring

Method

Preheat the oven to 220°C/gas mark 7. Clean the ceps with a cloth and make about 5 incisions in each one with the point of a knife. Push a slice of garlic into each incision.

Melt half of the butter in a roasting tray. Add the ceps, turn to coat them in the butter and season ge