Noisette butter

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 100 g, you will need:

• 1 125 g butter
• Total weight: 125 grams

Times:

Cooking
15 min.

Step by step recipe

• 1: Cut 125 g butter into pieces, put into a saucepan on medium heat and melt.
  Note: Cutting the butter into pieces for this stage, rather than starting with a large block, allows it to melt and raise its temperature more evenly.
• 2: After a while, the butter will start to boil. This is because of the water it contains.
• 3: Continue cooking. The boiling will be vigorous at first...
• 4: ...then it will gradually calm down.
• 5: Be careful, as the butter is now extremely hot, approaching 284°F (140°C).
• 6: At the end of the cooking process, the butter will have stopped bubbling, or almost, and will now be a light brown colour and give off a hazelnut smell.
• 7: Take the pan off the heat and stand it immediately in cold water for 30 seconds to stop the cooking.
  Note: It is very important to cool the butter like this, or it will continue to heat up, even off the hob, and will end up burning and turning black.
• 8: So, now you have noisette butter. It is quite normal at this stage for there to be a bits in it from the cooking, which must now be removed.
• 9: Filter the noisette butter through a fine strainer.
• 10: Your noisette butter is now ready for use, or it can be kept easily in the fridge for several days.

Remarks

You can avoid cooling the pan in stage 7 by filtering the noisette butter immediately into another (cold) container.
You can also use slightly salted butter, but do be aware that the cooking to noisette stage will concentrate the initial saltiness.
You will have noticed how hot the butter gets towards the end of cooking — a bit like making caramel — so I advise you not to make it when there are young children in the kitchen.

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