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Beurre d'escargot

Beurre d'escargot is the typically French flavoured butter added to snails before they go into the oven.

In principal, this a simple mixture of butter, chopped parsley and garlic, but here is a more sophisticated gastronomic version with a flavour that simply oozes French savoir-faire.

27K 13 3.6

Last modified on: November 7^th 2018

Keywords for this recipe:Escargot French Parsley Garlic Butter Gastronomic version

For 900 g, you will need:

0 500 g butter
1 60 g parsley
2 60 g shallot
3 40 g butter
4 100 g smoked ham
5 100 g button or field mushrooms
6 2 tablespoons olive oil
7 2 cloves garlic
8 60 g ground almonds
9 2 tablespoons French mustard
10 salt
11 pepper
Total weight: 1,000 grams

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 3 min.

Cut 500 g butter into pieces, put these in a bowl and leave at room temperature for 2 hours (it's important).

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Chop 60 g parsley finely. Set aside.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

Prepare 60 g shallot and chop very finely.

Stage 4 - 1 min.

Melt 40 g butter in a small frying pan on medium heat, then add the chopped shallot.

Cook for 1 minute without colouring, then set aside.

Stage 5 - 3 min.

Cut 100 g smoked ham into small pieces.

Stage 6 - 2 min.

Lightly fry in the same pan as used for the shallot.

Set aside.

Stage 7 - 5 min.

Peel 100 g button or field mushrooms and dice very small.

Stage 8 - 1 min.

Still using the same pan, heat 2 tablespoons olive oil. When hot, add the diced mushrooms.

Cook for 1 minute without colouring.

Set aside.

Stage 9 - 3 min.

Peel and chop 2 cloves garlic very finely.

Put in a bowl.

Stage 10 - 2 min.

Add the chopped parsley, shallots, ham, mushroms, 60 g ground almonds and 2 tablespoons French mustard.

Stage 11 - 2 min.

Mix well, salt and pepper.

Stage 12 - 3 min.

Soften the butter by stirring for a few minutes with a spatula or fork.

Stage 13 - 2 min.

Add to the mixture in the bowl and mix together.

Stage 14 - 3 min.

Your beurre d'escargot is ready for use on a batch of snails.

You can also prepare it to use later by transferring it into a forcing bag.

Stage 15 - 5 min.

Pipe butter "sausages" on a sheet of plastic film.

Stage 16 - 1 min.

Then roll up the butter in the film to make as even a cylinder as possible and twist the ends to seal.

Stage 17 - 5 min.

Make as many rolls as you can and freeze them.

Your beurre d'escargot can be used later, either for snails or in another recipe: just take out a roll and cut off pieces as you need them.

Remarks

No difficulty with mushrooms, use use what you got.

Keeping

Several days in the fridge. Freezes very well.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
5,211 Kcal or 21,817 Kj	37 gr	32 gr	548 gr
261 %	14 %	3 %	83 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
521 Kcal or 2,181 Kj	4 gr	3 gr	55 gr
26 %	1 %	<1 %	8 %

% 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).

How much will it cost?

For 900 g : 10.28 €

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Some recipes that use this recipe

Snails in a brioche

A flat brioche filled with snails, themselves filled with a knob of sophisticated beurre d'escargot. The flat round shape is reminiscent of the old-fashioned French snail dishes. Cut into bite-sized morsels, this makes a good aperitif snack.
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Mussels with beurre d'escargot

In this recipe, the mussels are cooked briefly first in salted water, just until they open. They are then shelled and popped in the oven for a few minutes with a knob of beurre d'escargot (butter for snails).
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Source

Based on a recipe by Alain Ducasse.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Rice pudding with fruit and nuts, Artichoke hearts forestier , Household cake (Gâteau de ménage), Aperitif rolls, Filet mignon with asparagus, ... All
	Smoked ham: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Ham and cheese slices with spring onions, Cauliflower "moelleux" in ramekins, Eggs Benedict , Sautéd broccoli with ham, Thin endive tart, ... All
	Button or field mushrooms: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Simple mushroom salad with thyme and lemon, 3 ways, Sautéed pork with mushrooms in a cream sauce., Veal Marengo, Artichoke hearts forestier , Radish and mushroom salad, ... All
	Ground almonds: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Moist cereal bars, Apple and almond gratin, Santiago Cake, Buckwheat almond biscuits, Almond mug cake for Mary, ... All

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