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Steamed artichoke with chipotle, butter and lime dip

October 22, 2013 12 Comments Filed Under: Food, Recipes, Uncategorized


The recipe is simple but the ingredient is complicated. Artichokes, a large edible thistle, take time to eat.  You eat them with your fingers, tugging out the leaves and dipping the tip into an emulsified sauce such as mustard vinaigrette, mayonnaise or this sunset-hued sauce in my recipe below, clawing off the pale green flesh with your teeth.
They were a Tudor food, Henry VIII grew them at New Hall palace in Essex and Queen Elizabeth the I’s chef cooked many artichoke dishes. I once lived as a Tudor for a few weeks at Kentwell Hall in Suffolk. You had to dress Tudor (I made my own boned bodiced dress), talk Tudor (no saying ‘okay’) and show deference to the upper classes (really hard all that curtseying). I worked in the dairy and in the blacksmiths. Tudor food for the poor is mostly worts: turnips and roots made into pottage. The upper classes had meat, fish, salads, often with flowers, fresh cottage cheese and marzipan.
Artichokes are one of the oldest cultivated foods, there is something pre-historic about their unapologetic inaccessibility. Italians use raw artichoke in salads, sliced thinly. But you need very fresh, young tender plants, they soon grow coarse and stringy.
We grew some artichokes in the Secret Garden this year: from four plants we got a paltry two artichokes. They take up space but have a spiky beauty.

Recipe for Steamed artichoke with chipotle, butter and lime dip
For one person to eat slowly.

1 fresh artichoke (from AndreasVeg)
Half a lemon
Salted boiling water to cover the artichoke head.

Sauce:
50g of melted butter (recently recieved Lurpak’s slow churned butter which was rich and flavoursome)
1 teaspoon of chipotle sauce (or Gran Luchito sauce)
Juice of 1 lime
A large pinch of salt

Cut off the spikey tips with scissors or a sharp serrated knife. Plunge the artichoke into a deep pan of salted boiling water. Add half a lemon so it doesn’t discolour. The artichoke is ready when you can easily remove one of the outer leaves. Usually this takes about 20 minutes.
Make the sauce by mixing melted butter, adding chipotle sauce, lime juice and salt.
To eat:
Dip the outer leaves into the sauce, eating the small amount of artichoke flesh at the end of each leaf. Once the leaves become small and flimsy, discard them and pull off the thistly top. Then cut up the artichoke bottom, dipping it into the sauce as you go.

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  1. Catherine

    October 22, 2013 at 5:14 pm

    This looks tasty. I went to a Swiss/French boarding school and we used to get artichokes for our lunch! It was the first time I had eaten them. Would the Chipotle Tabasco sauce be ok to use?

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    • Kerstin Rodgers

      October 22, 2013 at 8:35 pm

      I was trying to remember the first time I had an artichoke. I think I was about 8 and we were on holiday in France. I loved them straight away. Chipotle tabasco would be fine, I like it too.

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  2. Bethan Vincent

    October 22, 2013 at 7:31 pm

    This looks amazing, I absolutely adore artichokes! I love how this is like healthy nachos too haha.

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    • Kerstin Rodgers

      October 22, 2013 at 8:36 pm

      It is a bit isn't it? Felicity Cloake had a recipe for nachos in her Guardian column recently, my daughter seems to live on them. But if you combine nachos with guacamole and salsa, you have pretty much all the food groups.
      I love artichokes. I can eat them by the jar.

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  3. Millie Marbles

    October 23, 2013 at 1:22 pm

    hmmmm this looks good. "healthy nachos" gotta try this out. Im totally trying to eat healthier. thanks for the tip!

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  4. Anonymous

    October 23, 2013 at 6:49 pm

    I love love love gran luchito. Particularly on top of peanut butter on toast.
    Helen

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  5. Kerstin Rodgers

    October 23, 2013 at 8:31 pm

    It is darn good on toast. Peanut butter…must try that with

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  6. Elizabeth Young

    October 27, 2013 at 10:41 am

    Artichokes are one of my absolute favourite suppers! I always had problems sourcing them in the UK but we have a plentiful supply in Italy at the moment!

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    • Kerstin Rodgers

      October 28, 2013 at 10:25 pm

      You are soo lucky. They have lovely tender little artichokes there, ones you can deep fry whole.

      Reply
  7. Coffee Pods

    October 28, 2013 at 4:41 pm

    This looks excellent. Good job with the photos btw! Will definitely give that recipe a try one of those days

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    • Kerstin Rodgers

      October 28, 2013 at 10:26 pm

      Thanks Coffee Pod!

      Reply

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