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Cream and herb dressing

A quick and easy recipe for a cream and herb dressing to go with all kinds of dishes, from simple jacket potatoes to fish.

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Last modified on: June 12^th 2022

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For 500 g, you will need:

1 2 shallots
2 herbs of your choice
3 1 lemon
4 400 g cream
5 salt
6 pepper
Total weight: 580 grams

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How long will it take?

Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Start to finish
13 min.	13 min.

Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 10 min.

Prepare and finely chop 2 shallots.

Rinse and dry the herbs (chives and parsley here), then chop finely.

Stage 2 - 1 min.

Put 400 g cream into a large bowl. Try to use really thick cream if you can get it.

Stage 3 - 1 min.

Add the chopped herbs and shallot to the cream with the lemon zest, salt and pepper. Mix together.

Stage 4 - 1 min.

Finish with a squeeze of lemon juice then check the seasoning.

Stage 5

Your cream and herb dressing is ready. Keep refrigerated until use.

Remarks

The more different herbs you use, the more interesting your dressing will taste, so why not try chervil, tarragon, thyme, etc.?

Using lime instead of lemon is also a twist well worth trying.

For a lighter version, use beaten cottage cheese instead of cream.

Keeping

1 or 2 days in the fridge, covered with plastic film.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,281 Kcal or 5,363 Kj	14 gr	36 gr	120 gr
64 %	5 %	3 %	18 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
221 Kcal or 925 Kj	2 gr	6 gr	21 gr
11 %	1 %	1 %	3 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk

How much will it cost?

For 500 g : 1.98 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: "Day After Pork Belly" Soup, Clementine Chantilly, Country-style spring pasta, Basic cake batter - the French way, Quick prawn curry, ... All
	Shallot: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Stuffed artichokes au gratin, Artichoke Soup, Beurre blanc sauce, Normandy seafood stew, Breton style shellfish and vegetable soup, ... All
	Lemon: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Escalope of veal in a cream sauce, Fish in white wine, Vol-au-vent, Greek Pesto, Roast cabbage with lemon, ... All
	Salt: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Hot tomato sauce, Pan-fried scallops and chanterelles with Noilly Prat sauce, Flognarde, Sesame fried scampi, Mexican salad, ... All

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