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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.

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Last modified on: November 7^th 2018

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For 900 g, you will need:

1 500 g butter
2 60 g parsley
3 60 g shallot
4 40 g butter
5 100 g smoked ham
6 100 g button or field mushrooms
7 2 tablespoons olive oil
8 2 cloves garlic
9 60 g ground almonds
10 2 tablespoons Mustard
11 salt
12 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 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.

Source

Based on a recipe by Alain Ducasse.

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).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk, Nuts, Mustard

How much will it cost?

For 900 g : 10.28 €

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	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Cornouaillaise salad, Mornay onion tart, Creamy spinach and potato gratin, Tatin apples with mascarpone cream, Soft apple cookies, ... All
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