Everything’s delicious with brown butter

Brown butter, also known as beurre noisette, is just as simple to make as it is divine in flavor. Because: the butter melts in the pan, causing the milk solids to brown on their own. That’s it.

The nutty flavor that develops as a result forms a classic combination with, for example, skate wing. But brown butter is irresistible with/in/on/over so much more.

1. Brown butter ice cream

Even ice cream haters fall for it, because of its nutty and buttery flavor. Check out this recipe on Lucky Peach and you’ll know.

2. Granola with pecans

Do what Walter White from the Netflix series Breaking Bad does with his home-cooked meth . Break the cooled granola cookie, baked with pecans in brown butter in the oven, into coarse pieces in the baking tin using a pointed object.

Brown butter deepens the flavor exponentially.

3. Gnocchi with sage brown butter sauce

You don’t need anything else with this classic. Okay, some Parmesan then.

4. Brown butter cake

Cake with lots of butter is already an absolute winner. But if you brown the butter beforehand, the flavor deepens exponentially. In other words: a little extra effort, a big effect.

5. Halibut

Skate wing is of course the star, but halibut makes a perfectly good substitute. Be sure to add capers to the sauce as well.