Green stuffed eggs

It is not the eggs that are green but, rather, the stuffing.  This comes from the green butter – a delicious herby butter – used in making the stuffing.

They make a delicious canapé or hors d’œuvre dish.

Preparation Time: 10 Mins

Cooking Time: 10 Mins

Total Time: 20 Mins

Ingredients

For 1 serving…

10 gms            Green butter           

½ tsp              Curry powder          

1 pinch            Paprika      

½ tsp              Mustard  - English, made        

1                    Egg  - hard-boiled    

1 pinch            Cayenne    

½ tsp              Lemon juice            

For the green butter

60 gms            Butter       

1 leaf              Spinach  - chopped   

3 sprigs            Parsley  - chopped    

2 sprigs            Mint  - chopped       

2 leaves           Sage  - chopped       

1 pinch            Salt          

Method

To make the green butter…

Put the butter in a bowl.  Add the chopped herbs and with a wooden spoon beat them until the butter is soft and the herbs evenly worked into it.  Alternatively, put all the ingredients in a food processor and blend until they are all amalgamated.

Note that there will be enough green butter for about 4 eggs.

To stuff the eggs…

Halve the eggs and scoop out the yolks.  Blend these with the green butter, mustard, curry powder, lemon juice, cayenne and paprika.

Wine recommendations

A white wine.

Conventional

     Crémant d'Alsace

     Manzanilla Sherry

Interesting

     Côtes de Gascogne blanc

     Sancerre

     Vouvray sec or sparkling