Fig & Walnut Butter Board
Ingredients
      
      
      
        
      227g Lewis Road Creamery salted butter 
2 Tbsp manuka honey + extra for drizzling 
1 tsp vanilla bean paste  
Handful of roasted Marlborough walnuts, roughly chopped (must be roasted) 
½ tsp dried kawakawa (optional) 
½ cup Te Mata dessert figs in syrup, cut in half 
Few sprigs fresh thyme, leaves picked  
Pinch flaky sea salt  
Kumara chips or warm sourdough, for serving
      
      
    
Method
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Add butter, honey, and vanilla to a mini food-processor, along with a big pinch of flaky salt. Blitz together for about 1 minute, until smooth and creamy.
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Dollop butter over a serving board or platter, then spread out with the back of a spoon. Sprinkle over walnuts and kawakawa (if using). Spoon dessert figs on top, then drizzle over some extra manuka honey. Garnish with some sprigs of thyme and a pinch of flaky salt.
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Serve with kumara chips and warm bread.