How to prevent butter burning during cooking
Butter, which is excellent for fixing flavours in a recipe, burns if the temperature is too high. It darkens and produces unpleasant small black specks (by the way, note that the famous recipe "raie au beurre noir", ray in black butter, is a kind of sacrilege!).
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Last modified on: February 21th 2011
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| Cooking | Start to finish |
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| 3 min. | 3 min. |
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Stage 1 - 3 min.
To avoid this, you can add a little oil to the butter which allows you to raise the temperature further. But this is not always an appropriate method as sometimes it's not desirable to use oil (for a dessert for exemple).
It's well worth making clarified butter.
It's well worth making clarified butter.
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Home made.More recipes?
This recipe uses (among others) | Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Gâteau Basque , Almond macaroon cake, Fish petals, vegetables julienne, and beurre blanc, Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée), Shortcrust pastry (pâte brisée), ... All |
 | Oil: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: French toast "cordon bleu", Spinach brik parcels, Pan-fried potatoes, Roast beef "like they do it in Santa Fe", Mayonnaise, ... All |
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