Red Wine Butter, Roast Tomatoes & Brown Sauce

4:06 am on 15 November 2005

Ingredients - Red Wine Butter

  • 100g butter.
  • ½ clove garlic
  • ½ green onion minced.
  • ½ tsp minced rosemary(or not)
  • 2 Tbl red wine
  • 1 Tsp mustard powder
  • Juice ½ a lemon
  • Pepper.

Method

Process until smooth and fluffy.

Use this to beat into sauce to enrichen and make silken, or put a knob on top.

Method - Roast Tomatoes

Cut big ripe tomatoes in half. Sprinkle with plenty of salt and a little pepper. Put into 180 oven for 30 mins.

Method - Brown Sauce

Brown 1 small onion finely minced and 4 mushrooms, also finely minced, in 1 bl oil. Add 1 Tbl flour and brown lightly.

Add 1 cup packet “natural” stock and simmer down by a third.

Only add seasoning after checking flavour after reducing. The packet stocks are VERY salty.