New Potatoes With Black Peppercorn Butter Recipes

NEW POTATOES WITH BLACK PEPPERCORN BUTTER

Steps:

• Combine broth and peppercorns in small saucepan. Cover and simmer 30 minutes. Uncover and simmer until mixture is reduced to 1/4 cup, about 15 minutes. Add brandy; simmer until mixture is reduced to 3 tablespoons, about 10 minutes. Cool. Blend peppercorn mixture, butter, lemon juice, shallot and thyme in processor until peppercorns are finely chopped. (Can be made 2 days ahead. Chill. Use at room temperature.)
• Cook potatoes in pot of boiling salted water until tender, about 25 minutes. Drain. Quarter potatoes. Place in large bowl. Add onions and 1/4 cup peppercorn butter (reserve remaining peppercorn butter for another use); toss gently. Season to taste with salt.

DUTCH OVEN RED POTATOES WITH BLACK PEPPERCORN BUTTER RECIPE

Steps:

• Mix the butter with the CREAMY PEPPERCORN and water. this can be done a couple of days in advance so the flavors meld. Place the potatoes in a kettle and cover with water. Bring to a boil and cook until tender, about 15-20 minutes, depending on the size of the potatoes. Drain, let cool and then quarter the potatoes. Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the bell peppers, onions and mushrooms and cook until soft, about 10 minutes. Place your Dutch oven in the oven and preheat to 350. Add the potatoes, peppers, onion, and mushrooms and together with the seasoned butter and mix well. Cover and heat through for 45 minutes. When ready to serve, sprinkle with the cheese.

SALT-BAKED NEW POTATOES WITH PINK-PEPPERCORN BUTTER

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 400 degrees. Wash the potatoes.
• In a large bowl, mix the salt, rosemary needles, peppercorns and 1 cup water together with your hands, crushing the peppercorns a little between your fingers and bruising the rosemary needles to release their sticky oil, making a moist, fragrant and pink-and-green speckled sand. (You might have to add a few splashes of water if the mixture needs more moisture to feel like wet sand.)
• Transfer a little less than half this salt mixture into the bottom of a wide, shallow, heavy ovenproof skillet or casserole to make a salt bed about 1/2-inch thick.
• Nestle the potatoes into the sand, close to one another but not quite touching, if possible.
• Pack the rest of the salt mixture over the nestled potatoes, and rub and brush and smooth it with your hands until you have tightly encased the potatoes in a little salt sarcophagus. The rounded tops of the potatoes will just show as bumps under the salt cast.
• Bake the potatoes for 30 to 40 minutes, until a cake tester easily pierces the potatoes and tests warm on your chin or the back of your hand. The salt casing will dry and harden like clay - and smell delicious while baking.
• While the potatoes roast, prepare the compound butter: Grind the peppercorns in a mortar and pestle with the whole branches of rosemary to create an oily, coarse powder. Remove the bruised rosemary sprigs, shaking off any clinging pink peppercorns, and discard. (You just want to extract the oily flavor from the rosemary, not the needles themselves.) In a small bowl, mash the oily peppercorn powder with the salted butter using a fork until well blended.
• To serve, rap the salt-packed potatoes forcefully on a sturdy surface that can handle it, to crack the salt crust from the force. A few solid raps will loosen the potatoes inside. If the cast needs a little more help, use a regular dinner knife like a spade to just pop open the salt crust along its fault lines. The potatoes are easily plucked from the dry salt. Set out with the compound butter in a small bowl on the side.

NEW POTATOES IN BUTTER SAUCE

Steps:

• Place potatoes into a large pot and cover with salted water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until tender, about 15 minutes. Drain potatoes and save about 1/2 cup cooking water in the pot.
• Add 2 or 3 potatoes pieces back into the pot with the cooking water and mash them to thicken the sauce a bit. Add butter and stir until melted. Stir in green onions. Return hot potatoes to the pot and stir gently until coated in the sauce.
• Let sit until potatoes soak up the butter sauce, 5 to 7 minutes. Season with salt and pepper if desired. Serve hot.

BUTTER STEAMED NEW POTATOES (SMORDAMPETE NYPOTETER)

Steps:

• Melt butter in a dutch oven or 10" skillet. Add potatoes, stir to coat. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• Cover and cook on low, shaking the pan occasionally until the potatoes are tender, about 30 minutes.
• Put in serving dish, pour any remaining butter over and sprinkle with fresh parsley or dill.