Recipe: Kkaenip Pesto Butter

Posted by Tammy in Featured, Fusion | 2 comments

Posted by Tammy

Pesto Butter is a classic compound butter but you can replace the basil pesto with kkaenip pesto for an exotic Korean-style spin. You can easily cut this recipe in half and still maintain the same flavor and quality.

INGREDIENTS

1/2 cup Gkaenip (Sesame Leaf) Pesto
1 cup unsalted Butter*, room temperature
pinch of Salt

Put the pesto into the mixing bowl and slowly add the butter, about a tablespoon at a time. Mix well with a wooden spoon before adding the next tablespoon of butter. Once it’s all blended well, add salt to taste and serve at room temperature.

*If you use salted butter, don’t add more salt to the mix. Excessive salt is an assault on your taste buds.

Tammy Quackenbush (Writer/San Francisco Bureau Chief) lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her love of Korean food started when she taught ESL in Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, back in 1996-1997. However, she didn’t become “famous” for her Korean cooking style until she started making cooking videos on YouTube as Koreanfornian Cooking in 2007 (had to put her college degree to use somehow). Her recipes and articles have been featured in Plate Magazine and on Slice/Seriouseats.com, Foodbuzz, New Asian Cuisine, MarxFoods.com, Korea.net and iFoodTV.com. She has her own online presence at http://koreanforniancooking.com/.

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