Toasted ciabatta with anchovy and mandarin butter

Anchovy toasts.  Photograph: Harry Weir Photography
Anchovy toasts. Photograph: Harry Weir Photography
Serves: 4
Course: Side Dish
Cooking Time: 0 hr 20 mins

Ingredients

  • 100g butter
  • 10 salted anchovies
  • A few fresh thyme leaves
  • Juice of 1 mandarin
  • 1 ciabiatta loaf

1 Melt the butter, then chop the anchovies and add them to it along with the thyme.

2 Stir over a low heat for a minute or so, until the anchovies melt into the butter.

3 Add the mandarin juice and remove from the heat.

4 Cut the ciabiatta in half lengthways. Toast the bread, then smear it with the anchovy butter.

5 Cut into chunks and serve. This would be wonderful with the charcuterie on its own, as well as with the pasta.

Paul Flynn

Paul Flynn

Paul Flynn is a chef, restaurateur and contributor to The Irish Times. He and his wife, Máire, run the Tannery restaurant and cookery school in Dungarvan, Co Waterford