Radishes With Herbed Ricotta Dip Sweet Butter And Fleur De Sel Food

We used a combination of 'French Breakfast,' 'White Icicle,' and 'Pink Beauty' radishes, but you can use any variety you'd like.

Provided by Martha Stewart

Categories     Food & Cooking     Appetizers

Number Of Ingredients 8

• Ingredients

A classic French way of serving radishes, simple and yet so good; crunchy radishes are simply served with fresh butter and sea salt. I like to serve mine with Fleur de Sel, which is the caviar of French sea salts. You will be offered this in most French homes as an aperitif snack or as an appetiser before a meal. All that is needed is some traditional French bread to accompany it for a light lunch or supper dish. Table salt is fine if you cannot source Fleur de Sel or a good sea salt. (Information on Fleur de Sel: Many consider fleur de sel, which means "flower of salt" in French, the finest type of sea salt available. Its price reflects its high quality, as it costs about 10 times more than your average sea salt and 100 times more than table salt. The delicacy with which it is hand-harvested accounts for much of the expense. Fleur de sel floats on the surface of shallow salt water marshes and is scraped off with a special rake called a lousse à de fleur. The raking must be done carefully by hand to prevent mixing the fleur de sel with the coarse gray salt beneath it. France harvests most of the world's fleur de sel, with the town of Guérande possibly being the most famous producer. Fleur de sel has a higher mineral content than table salt, a natural greyish hue, a moist texture and a violet-like fragrance. Sprinkle it on food before serving to enliven flavours.)

Provided by French Tart

Categories     Lunch/Snacks

Time 5m

Yield 4 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 4

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Nutrition Facts :

Provided by Ina Garten

Categories     appetizer

Yield 6 to 8 servings

Number Of Ingredients 11

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As is always the case with such a simple idea, success is in the quality of the ingredients. Cull any overgrown, cottony, spongy radishes, and keep the good ones fresh with ice and clean kitchen towels. Keep your butter at the perfect temperature, and be graceful on the plate, please.

Provided by Gabrielle Hamilton

Time 5m

Yield Serves 4

Number Of Ingredients 3

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Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 107, UnsaturatedFat 3 grams, Carbohydrate 1 gram, Fat 12 grams, Fiber 0 grams, Protein 0 grams, SaturatedFat 7 grams, Sodium 103 milligrams, Sugar 1 gram, TransFat 0 grams

This is a very simple dip to use with fresh fruit. It can be served in the same fashion as vegetables (crudites) and dip, a bowl of this surrounded on a plate by melon balls/slices, strawberries, grapes, kiwi, cherries, blueberries, bananas and apple slices. Just be sure to dunk bananas and apple slices in lemon juice first to prevent browning. Serve with a shot glass full of toothpicks, and Voila!

Provided by davianng

Categories     < 15 Mins

Time 5m

Yield 2 cups, 12 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 3

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Nutrition Facts : Calories 77.2, Fat 4.9, SaturatedFat 3.1, Cholesterol 19.3, Sodium 31.9, Carbohydrate 3.7, Sugar 2.6, Protein 4.3

Provided by Martha Stewart

Categories     Food & Cooking     Healthy Recipes     Gluten-Free Recipes

Yield Makes 1 cup

Number Of Ingredients 5

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 48 g, Cholesterol 1 g, Fat 3 g, Protein 3 g, SaturatedFat 1 g, Sodium 78 g