Chipotle Butter

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 1 (7 ounce) can chipotle chiles in adobo
• 16 tablespoons unsalted butter

Recipe

• 1 puree chipotles and all sauce in processor.
• 2 make sure to scrape the bowl to get unprocessed parts well pureed.
• 3 add softened butter.
• 4 process until creamy.
• 5 place in a heavy saucepan over low heat.
• 6 soften mixture until it is very soft and smooth, stirring constantly.
• 7 don't overheat the butter/chipotle combination, it will break and not come back together.
• 8 (use a double boiler or bain marie if you must to make sure it doesn't get too warm.).
• 9 pour softened mixture into a fine chinoise. let drain, gently pushing contents up the sides of the sieve, not pressing.
• 10 after the mixture has gone through the chinois, there should be about 2 t of seeds and skins in the bottom. discard these.
• 11 this can be used in sauce batarde or just by itself on bread, fish or eating with a spoon.
• 12 it will keep very well in the freezer, if covered tightly.