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Aromatic Recipe Cilantro Lime Butter
This cilantro infused herb butter is delicious on grilled bell peppers and many other grilled vegetable recipes. Serve it with red, orange, yellow, or green bell peppers to give them an exotic flavor. You can swap the green onion for half a clove of minced garlic if you prefer. This fine herb butter recipe is great with any kind of vegetable dish but because of the cilantro it is especially good with Mexican or Thai style vegetables or actually anything oriental. If you are marinating meat or fish in a Mexican or eastern style marinade and serving it with a grilled vegetable side dish, this herb butter would be ideal to serve with the vegetables.
You can either shape the herb butter into a log and cut off disk shapes to melt over your grilled vegetables or you can use a piping bag to pipe rosette shapes. It is up to you, which you prefer. If you have never used a piping bag before you might just want to make a log shape in the plastic wrap because it will be faster and simpler than piping rosettes. If you add the herb butter to the grilled vegetables before serving them it will start to melt immediately anyway.
Cilantro is just one of the many herbs you can use and you might like to try out a few different herb butter recipes before you find one you especially like. Different herb butters go with different dishes but you will find that pretty much any variety of herbs you use to make it are suitable for serving with most grilled vegetables recipes. Butter adds moisture to a grilled vegetable recipe and the herbs add a freshness and an aromatic flavor. Cilantro goes with most vegetables and the flavor is especially good with delicately flavored vegetables because cilantro itself is quite aromatic as opposed to being strong or overpowering.
Seasoned Butter with Cilantro
Ingredients -
½ stick butter
2 tablespoons finely chopped cilantro
¼ teaspoon finely grated lime zest
1 finely minced green onion
Salt and black pepper, to taste
Preparation:
Let the butter soften for 10 minutes then mash the lime zest, cilantro and green onion into it with a fork.
Add salt and pepper to taste.
Put the butter on a sheet of plastic wrap and shape it into a log.
Put it in the freezer to firm up, and then cut off disk-shaped pieces to serve with your favorite grilled vegetables recipes.
(Serves 4)
Photo Description:
Cilantro is a great ingredient for herb butter recipes. Not only is it easy to find but it adds a lovely color and flavor to your herb butter. You can see the bright green of the cilantro in the photo and imagine how rich-looking a cilantro herb butter recipe would be. This herb goes beautifully with all kinds of grilled fresh vegetables but it is especially nice with grilled bell pepper or mixed grill vegetable packets, which include bell pepper strips, because bell peppers are naturally sweet and the cilantro flavor complements the sweetness.
