Colorful garden butter

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 250 g butter, room temperature
• 1 handful of flowers, see recipe description
• 1 handful of herbs (garden) see recipe description,
• ½ handful of herbs (spices), see recipe description,
• 1 small bunch of chives, or garlic chives, rather a bunch
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 dashes lemon juice
• n. B. Pepper, freshly ground

Instructions

Working time approx. 30 minutes; Total time approx. 30 minutes

Herb butter with colorful flowers – to preserve the summer

Flowers/variegated herbs: Depending on the garden/availability, e.g., nasturtium flowers, marigold petals, mallow flowers, borage flowers, oregano flowers, sunflower petals, cornflower petals, and possibly some red orache or red basil. Garden herbs: Herbs with a softer green color, depending on the garden/availability, e.g., nasturtium, flat-leaf parsley, tarragon, celery, lemon balm, ground elder, or similar. Seasoning herbs: Depending on the garden/availability, e.g., oregano, golden oregano, sage (only 1-2 leaves!), savory, lemon thyme, rosemary, a leaf of lovage, or similar. Sort everything, wash the herbs and pat dry, then chop everything: chop flowers/variegated herbs roughly—this will make their beautiful colors more visible in the butter. Cut the chives and nasturtium stems into fine rolls or strips. Simply chop “soft” garden herbs. I chop aromatic herbs especially finely, so the flavor is distributed better and no one bites into anything hard afterwards. Then add everything to the softened butter along with salt and lemon juice, give it a quick grind with the pepper mill, and mix everything well. The butter tastes great on bread/baguette (just as it is or baked briefly), with soups or stews, with salads, grilled food, or simply with wine/beer and a cheese platter, with mulled wine, etc. Use immediately or, for storage, divide it into about 3-4 portions, form them into rolls or triangular sticks, wrap them up, and freeze them in a (labeled!) freezer bag, sealed airtight. This way, I have a lovely reserve of spiced butter that both looks and tastes like summer.