Recipes

Six things worth making, each built around one ingredient doing most of the work.

Black garlic butter

Butter

Black garlic butter

Two cloves per 100 g of butter, mashed with sea salt. Melts over steak, new potatoes and grilled leeks.

5 minutes · keeps two weeks

Balsamic-dark aioli

Sauce

Balsamic-dark aioli

A teaspoon of paste per yolk gives a deep, molasses-sweet aioli with no vinegar at all.

10 minutes · serves four

Black garlic in the dough

Bread

Black garlic in the dough

Eight grams per kilo of flour. The crumb turns amber and the crust smells of caramel and allium.

Overnight · one loaf

One-clove vinaigrette

Dressing

One-clove vinaigrette

A single clove replaces both mustard and sugar in a house dressing.

3 minutes · keeps a week

On the cheese board

No cooking

On the cheese board

Whole bulbs, a hard cheese and a spoon. The easiest way to introduce it to someone.

2 minutes · serves six