Café de Paris Spice Blend

Café de Paris Spice Blend – Altes Gewürzamt

The Altes Gewürzamt Café de Paris spice blend is a herbaceous spice mixture by Ingo Holland that contains mustard, shallots, pepper, and, among other things, tarragon, chervil, chives, savory, dill, marjoram, parsley, and thyme. It tastes great with asparagus or kohlrabi, as Café de Paris butter on bread, or with steak.

Café de Paris Spice Blend – Butter Recipe

Anyone who has ever eaten steak avec frites in Paris might remember the wonderfully flavorful Café de Paris herb butter that melted on the steak. You can now enjoy this butter at home with the Ingo Holland Café de Paris spice blend. To do this, mix the contents of the tin with 25ml Worcestershire sauce and 75ml water, and let it swell overnight without refrigeration. The next day, whip 350g of soft butter until foamy, mix it with the paste, and season with salt. Then refrigerate until use. Et voilá - the perfect Café de Paris butter.

Altes Gewürzamt – Ingo Holland Spices without Compromise

Ingo Holland aims to inspire cooking enthusiasts and encourage creative ideas with his particularly intense spices from "Altes Gewürzamt". He makes no compromises when it comes to the quality of his ingredients, spices, peppers, herbs, and salts. His blends, like the Café de Paris spice blend, should be versatile, "which is why I'm reluctant to give specific application instructions," says Ingo Holland in an interview with us. If you enjoy cooking and smelling the blends, you'll probably feel the same way we do, and ideas will come to you about which dishes or ingredients this blend might taste particularly good with. The Café de Paris spice blend best preserves its savory aromas when stored in the green Altes Gewürzamt spice tins.

Be brave and try it out, but be careful: like all spices from Ingo Holland Altes Gewürzamt, the Café de Paris spice blend is intense, as it contains no anti-caking agents, but consists exclusively of natural ingredients.