Grilled Vegetables
Tarragon Butter
Tarragon is an ingredient which is traditionally used in fish recipes, so this tarragon butter is great served with fish. It is also good with chicken because chicken does not have a lot of flavor, so this butter recipe really complements it. Alternatively, tarragon butter goes very well with grilled vegetable recipes.
There are many types of butters, each designed to complement a certain type of food. You can double or even triple this recipe because butter and flavored butter keeps for several weeks in the refrigerator or six months in the freezer. This delicious tarragon butter recipe features Dijon mustard as well as fresh, aromatic tarragon.
Grilled Vegetable Herb Butter Recipe
Ingredients -
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
1 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature
¼ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon chopped fresh tarragon
Preparation:
Mix all the ingredients together using a fork or handheld blender, then spoon the tarragon butter on to plastic wrap and shape it like a sausage.
Wrap it tightly and chill until firm.
If you want to keep it for longer, wrap it a second time in foil.
To use the tarragon butter as a sauce, slice off a disk and melt it on hot food.
For using as a spread, let it warm to room temperature and serve with your favorite grilled vegetables recipe.
(Makes ½ Cup)
A Picture of tarragon sprigs this recipe features fresh tarragon blended with butter and other taste to make a refreshing topping for your grilled vegetables.
tar·ra·gon
Pronounced: (tar’ ë gon’, -gen), n.
Tarragon is one of the Old World plants known as, Artemisia dracunculus, it has aromatic leaves used for seasoning. One of the herbs that every kitchen should have also refers to the leaves themselves.
Also referred to as estragon.