Radishes with Three Butters

Name: Radishes with Three Butters
Ingredients: 8 oz / 230 g salted butter, at room temperature; 1 ripe tomato, peeled, deseeded and chopped; 3–4 bunches of radishes, trimmed; freshly ground black pepper; few sprigs of watercress, blanched and finely chopped; 2 oz / 60 g mushrooms, fried and chopped

Preparation info

Serves
8
, as a starter

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Times Cookbook

By Frances Bissell

Published 1995

About

I imagine eating this lovely summery snack in a shaded garden or taking it on a picnic.

Ingredients

3–4 bunches of radishes, trimmed
8 oz / 230 g salted butter, at ro

Side dish
Starter
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Pile the radishes into a serving bowl. Divide the butter into three, and into each portion, mix one of the next three ingredients. Season with pepper, and pack each butter into a small ramekin. Serve with crusty bread and a bowl of coarse salt.

Instead of using butter, you can serve yoghurt dips flavoured with the ingredients above, adding appropriate herbs; for example, basil with the