Butter is great. Salad is great. And butter deserves to be in salad.Too often relegated to the sauté and sauce pan, butter can elevate even the most basic salad ingredients. Case in point: a lettuce, zucchini, and goat cheese salad courtesy of food anthropologist Anna Colquhoun.Colquhoun uses 50 grams of melted butter, in addition to olive oil and super soft goat cheese, to create a perfect harmony of lipids for coating—you guessed it—butter lettuce.Butter lettuce has soft, sweet leaves, which makes it the obvious choice for this light and flavorful summer salad. Colquhoun also makes use of seasonal offerings like nasturtiums, borage flowers, chive flowers, marigold petals, or whatever else you can forage or find at the grocery store.
Just remember, the flowers are optional—the butter is not.