Baked Potatoes with Juniper Butter Sauce

Name: Baked Potatoes with Juniper Butter Sauce
Ingredients: Sea salt and black peppercorns; 1 clove garlic; Juice of ½ lemon; Sea salt and black peppercorns; 1 teaspoon juniper berries; 4 large potatoes; 8 oz (225 g) butter; 1 small onion, finely chopped

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Potato Year

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

About

The sweet, pungent taste of crushed juniper berries has an affinity with venison, pork and chicken. It is also the prevailing flavour in gin. Served as a sauce with baked potatoes, its aromatic properties can be appreciated.

Ingredients

4 large potatoes
1 small onion, finely chopped
8 oz (225

Starter
Baking
Vegetarian
April

Method

Scrub the potatoes and bake until tender. Cook the onion in the butter until transparent. Add the lemon juice. With a pestle and mortar pound the garlic, juniper berries, salt and peppercorns. Add to the onions and butter and take off the heat.

When the potatoes are cooked, put them in a clean cloth and gently press to break open the skin. Reheat the butter sauce and pour into the top o