Serves: 6 - 8 portions

Prep time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes

You will need:

400g peeled shallots
½ bottle of white wine
4 cloves of chopped garlic
125g packet of butter

What to do:

Finely chop all of the shallots and put to one side.

Add the 75g of the butter to a pan and melt. Sweat the shallots off in the butter until soft, then add the garlic. Allow to cook gently for 5 minutes or so on a low heat, not allowing the mix to colour.

Now add the wine and reduce by ¾ of the volume.

Add the other 75g of butter to the shallots that are cooked and remove the pan from the heat.

Pour in to a clean Kilner Jar whilst hot and close immediately.

This mix will then keep for up to a week in the fridge and is good for adding to things at the last minute such as pasta dishes, moules marinere; stir fries and even sauté cabbage.

Submitted by www.UKshallot.com