Butter with Roscoff onions

Bordier Butter with Roscoff Onion – sweet & mild-savory

Butter with Roscoff onion from Bordier is a Breton onion butter made with the pink onion from the north of Finistère. Its sweetness comes from the onion itself, which grows to be mild, pink, and juicy.

Butter with Roscoff onion is the only sweet onion butter in the Maison Bordier range and also the only variety with a significant sugar content, namely 3 grams per 100 grams. It contains 5 percent pink onions from Brittany.

Pink onion and a gentle sweetness

The pale yellow butter contains fine pink pieces that spread evenly over the slice when buttered.

On a flank steak or on toasted bread, it tastes of cream and onion, rounded and slightly sweet. The taste is velvety, sweet, and caramel-like, reminiscent of slowly braised onions. The sweetness is provided by the onion itself; 3 grams of sugar per 100 grams are indicated on the label.

On steak, on a galette, next to an oyster

Sweetness and salt together are the reason why this butter pairs so well with robust meat.

On a flank steak, it melts into a sauce; on a Breton buckwheat galette, it belongs there as a matter of origin; and over a potato fricassee, it replaces the need to sauté onions. It also pairs perfectly alongside a fresh oyster or on toasted bread with sardines from Brittany.

In warm cooking, add it at the very end, otherwise the onion loses its freshness. For those looking for a greener alternative, choose the butter with wild garlic and Kampot pepper.

Once cut, this onion butter has a slightly shorter shelf life than the plain varieties because it contains fresh vegetables. Kept well sealed at 4 degrees Celsius, it will hold its shape for a few days, during which time the sweetness actually becomes a bit more pronounced.

The onion that came to England by bicycle

The Roscoff onion has been grown on the north coast of Finistère for over 400 years and originally came from Portugal.

It became famous thanks to the "Johnnies," Breton onion sellers who, starting in the 19th century, traveled to Great Britain with braids of onions over their shoulders to sell door-to-door. In the 1920s, about 1,400 of them were on the road, bringing 9,000 tons of onions across the Channel.

Its pink skin and mild, sweet taste make it the most famous onion in France to this day. In the butter, it brings its raw sweetness, just as it comes from the field. It arrives as a 125g hand-pounded piece, and the other varieties can be found under the French butter varieties.

If you usually reach for fried onions, you will find a quieter version here that does not overpower the dish, but rather serves as a base. The difference is particularly noticeable with light meat and eggs, where roasted onions can easily dominate.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Bordier butter is a fresh product; we can only ship it chilled via express delivery within 24-48 hours. Therefore, orders containing this product always incur increased shipping costs.

The butter is quite soft, even when shipped chilled. Sometimes the paper it is wrapped in may become damp. Bordier is aware of this, and the packaging has been intentionally left unchanged.

SHELF LIFE: The butter has a shelf life of 10 - 14 days.