Red Pepper Butter

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

  • About

This is especially good with grilled chicken or lamb chops, or with grilled or barbecued steaks.

Ingredients

  • 2 red peppers
  • 4 garlic cloves, in their skins
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice

Method

Cut each pepper in half, scoop away the seeds and put the pepper halves skin side uppermost under a red-hot grill. Grill the peppers till their skin forms great black blisters, then take them out and put them in a polythene bag for 10 minutes. Then skin them and chop their flesh. Meanwhile, simmer the garlic cloves for 2 minutes, drain, cut off the ends of each clove and squeeze them from their