Name: French breakfast radishes, butter and herb salt
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: For shallow frying: vegetable oil; ½ tbsp (firmly packed) each thyme, sage, basil and rosemary; 20 gm sea salt flakes; 120 gm softened unsalted butter; 1 bunch French breakfast radishes, trimmed and halved

French breakfast radishes, butter and herb salt

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for French breakfast radishes, butter and herb salt by Matt Wilkinson from Melbourne restaurant Circa, the Prince.

Serves 4

Prep

10M

Cook

Total

15M

“I love the back-palate fieriness that radishes give.”

Ingredients

For shallow frying: vegetable oil

½ tbsp (firmly packed) each thyme, sage, basil and rosemary

20 gm sea salt flakes

120 gm softened unsalted butter

1 bunch French breakfast radishes, trimmed and halved

Method

Main

1.Heat 1cm oil in a saucepan over medium-high heat, add herbs, fry until crisp (1-2 minutes), strain through a heatproof sieve (discard oil) and transfer to a mortar and pestle. Add salt and pound until coarsely ground, then set aside.

2.Beat butter in an electric mixer until pale and fluffy (4-5 minutes). Pipe onto radishes using a piping bag. Serve with herb salt.