Name: Anchovy Butter
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
Ingredients: ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature; 6 to 8 canned anchovy fillets, rinsed and drained

Preparation info

Serves
6 to 8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Barbecue Bible

By Steven Raichlen

Published 1998

About

Anchovies make great appetizers, as the seventeenth-century English writer Thomas Flatman observed: To quicken appetite it will behoove ye To feed courageously on good Anchovie. Anchovy butter is particularly good on grilled sword-fish, tuna, and steak.

Ingredients

6 to 8 canned anchovy fillets, rinsed and drained
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature

Method

Place the anchovies in a mortar and mash to a paste with a pestle. Or mash them in a small bowl using the back of a wooden spoon. Add the butter and pepper and beat until smooth.
Place the butter at the bottom edge of a piece of parchment paper or plastic wrap and roll it into a compact cylinder. Store the butter in the refrigerator or freezer. Cut of

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