The latest social media food trend: Butter boards!
It’s the new sharing platter taking over TikTok, and today Juliet Sear is showing you how to impress your guests, by making your very own butter boards.
Butter Boards
Ingredients
For the fresh and floral:
softened butter
walnuts
honey
flaky salt
edible flowers
micro herbs
grated lemon zest
radishes
spring onions
For the Smokey style:
softened butter
Nduja (or Vduja if you're veggie)
smoked salt
smoked paprika
olives
store bought or made roasted peppers
crispy sage
Figs
For the Italian style:
softened butter blitzed with fresh basil
roasted garlic
roasted tomatoes
olives
nuts eg. pine nuts or almonds
extra pesto drizzle optional, tomato or basil flavour
Method
1. The method for all the butterboards is the same - spread softened butter over a wooden board, swirling to create an attractive pattern as well as making valleys and crevices for the other ingredients to nestle in.
2. Sprinkle sea salt all over the butter then lay the other ingredients on top, arranging any way you prefer.
Rainbow Butters
Ingredients
Green - spinach and herb
20g spinach
10g fresh basil
2 minced garlic cloves
1 tsp olive oil
100g unsalted soft butter
Pink - Beetroot and chilli butter
½ a cooked beetroot
½ -1 fresh red chilli, subject to how hot you like, deseeded and chopped
1-2 tsp olive oil
100g unsalted softened butter
Yellow - Horseradish and Turmeric
2 tablespoons strong horseradish cream (i used Tracklements)
½ tsp turmeric
100g softened unsalted butter
Blue - Roasted garlic and black pepper
½ - 1 bulb of roasted or confit cooked garlic, cloves squeezed out (to taste)
plenty of freshly ground black pepper
touch of blue food gel colouring
100g softened unsalted butter
Method
1. For each coloured butter, blitz the flavouring ingredients all together in a food processor or blender. Add in the butter and blitz well until it's all blended and a lovely colour.
2. Set aside in a covered bowl until ready to assemble your rainbow board.