"How do you use butter at home?" For this question, Xiaobian believes that nine out of ten readers will answer, "Eat with toast." Indeed, butter smeared toast is the most common butter usage.
Steaming toast, you can smell the scent across the screen
So in addition to using toast, what simple home method is there for butter? Let Xiaobian take stock for you!
❂ French butter toast
Dip the toast in the egg mixture, melt with a small piece of butter in a pan, heat the oil and add the toast and fry until crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. If you're tired of butter-grilled toast, try to make such a hearty breakfast and treat yourself.
❂ Butter hot muffins
Freshly steaming muffins in a pan, served with fresh fruit, topped with a small piece of butter, and drizzled with honey or maple syrup. Cut a piece into your mouth, the creamy aroma of butter and muffins are dense, and the day begins.
❂ Butter mixed with mashed potatoes
The potatoes are cooked and peeled, then pressed into mashed potatoes, lightly sauté the remaining moisture from the dried mashed potatoes in a saucepan, add small pieces of ice butter and slowly blend with the mashed potatoes. After the butter is completely absorbed by the potatoes, hot milk can also be added to further enhance the milk aroma. Every bite is the ultimate enjoyment!
❂ Scrambled eggs in butter
Can scrambled eggs also be made with butter? Of course, scrambled eggs with butter are creamy and loose, and can be appetizing with a little salt and black pepper. The secret is that after the butter is put into the pot and heated, it is adjusted to a low heat or even turned off the heat, and then the egg liquid is added, and the finished product is soft and moist, and it is successful.
❂ Butter garlic baguette slices
Passing by the bakery, smelling the aroma of garlic baguettes, you can't move your feet? In fact, the home production is also very simple, just soften the butter and mix with parsley and minced garlic, evenly spread on the baguette, put in the oven 200 degrees 5-7 minutes, the surface is golden, the aroma is overflowing, how to eat can not stop.
❂ Butter seasonal vegetables
A delicious new approach to semi-vegetarianism, blanch the vegetables in water, then add butter to a hot pan, stir-fry the vegetables, sprinkle a little salt and black pepper to get out of the pan. It can also be used as a side dish for meat, which is invincible and simple but super delicious!
Having said so much about the common method of butter, I believe that everyone can't wait to roll up their sleeves and do a big job. Don't worry, Xiaobian also has a butter selection tutorial, read it first.
So many brands of butter, how to pick it?
Seeing so many butter brands on supermarket shelves, is it dizzy? Come and find a piece of butter that suits you!
step1
Don't buy it wrong! Cream cheese is bad because butter and cream cheese will be very close on the shelves, and the outer packaging is similar, which is easy to confuse.
step2
If the butter is bought and applied at home, such as toast or bread, then choose the boxed butter, which is convenient and easy to store, and is also suitable for small portions of digging.
step3
If you're a vegetarian, opt for vegetable butter! It has the advantage of being inexpensive but containing trans fatty acids, so it is not recommended to everyone unless you are completely vegetarian or cannot accept the fishy smell of animal butter.
The better quality butter, such as the President from France, The Angel Anchor from New Zealand, the Tower Elle & Vice in France, the Payson Paysan in France and the Silver Treasure Lurpak in Denmark, etc., these brands use to make butter Milk Source is of high quality, and the production process is also quality guaranteed, and it is widely recognized worldwide.
Of course, if you say, I'm not bad for money! I just want the best butter! Then Xiaobian can also recommend you several top handmade butters. Because in French food, the bread before the meal must be served with butter, so the French three-michelin star restaurant will choose to cooperate with some handmade butter workshops to make them exclusively for quality butter.
Bordier is one of these larger, higher-yielding workshops that retail their own products. In addition to unsalted butter and salted butter, Bordier's handmade butter comes in a variety of flavors, such as lemon olive oil, grapefruit, vanilla, chili, smoked sea salt and more.
Indicative price: 5 euros / 100 g
Bordier butter's counter is located in the most famous Galeries Lafayette mall in Paris
Second only to Bordier, there is Échiré. It is also a handmade butter that is loved by the French royal family. Originating in the small town of Échiré in the west of France, it has been of high quality for hundreds of years.
Indicative price: 3.5 euros / 100 g
The price can also afford it, but due to transportation and storage reasons, the country can not buy, want to eat the price is to fly to France tickets.
It can be seen that butter is very important for French food ~ pre-dinner bread and butter, equivalent to a restaurant to give guests the first impression, for the particularly delicious butter, some food-loving guests will choose to pack home. No way, butter's status is so high!