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How to Prepare and Serve Bone Marrow

How to Prepare and Serve Bone Marrow

You’ve had the sinfully rich, buttery, fatty bone marrow dishes at restaurants and not it’s time to make your own at home. Here’s how to prepare and serve bone marrow.

How to Prepare and Serve Bone Marrow

I learned to appreciate “weird” foods from the French side of my family. While my Southern/Scotch grandmother filled our bellies with her chili and soups, cookies and fudge sauce — the Caribbean/French side swooned over things like boudin noir (blood sausage), accras (codfish fritters), calves liver, and marrow. In fact, once when I was ten, my Caribbean/French grandmother, Madou, actually served a whole calves brain topped with tomato sauce for dinner one night. Picture that… and then picture my horrified 10-year-old response.

However, the boudin noir is amazing. I still love calves liver, the accras is a family-wide favorite and I always claim any leftover marrow bones from dinner.

How to Prepare and Serve Bone Marrow

For you hearty few who’ve decided to stick around, you’re gonna love this.

My first recollections of marrow came from my grandfather who would always greedily pick the beef bones from the pot or platter and noisily suck the marrow out. It’s like intense umami butter – with a fatty richness that coats your tongue. I can’t get enough – so much so – that whenever I see them on a menu or in the market, I get them.

How to Prepare and Serve Bone Marrow

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Restaurants can source the long bones and butcher them vertically, like a long narrow serving dish for the heavenly marrow. Diners scoop out the marrow and spread it on bread or toast points. My butcher doesn’t cut the bones vertically, so I work with the cross cut bones and that’s just fine. I like to rub a little garlic on grilled bread and finish with fresh parsley and a little lemon zest – kind of like a gremolata. With a glass of red wine or bubbly, it’s positively DECADENT! Happy New Year!

How to Prepare and Serve Bone Marrow

How to Prepare and Serve Bone Marrow

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How to Prepare and Serve Bone Marrow


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  • Author: Lisa Lotts
  • Total Time: 30 minutes
  • Yield: 4 servings 1x

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You’ve had the sinfully rich, buttery, fatty bone marrow dishes at restaurants and not it’s time to make your own at home. Here’s how to prepare and serve bone marrow.


Ingredients

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  • 2 pounds marrow bones cut crosswise about 11/2” thick
  • 1/41/2 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 45 slices artisan bread from a boule or country loaf with a sturdy crust
  • 1 clove garlic peeled
  • parsley chopped
  • lemon zest

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 425°. Line a baking sheet with foil and place the marrow bones cut-side-up on top of the foil. Sprinkle with the salt and roast in the hot oven for 20 minutes.
  2. Meanwhile, heat the grill to a medium high heat — about 400° and grill the bread on either side until browned and crisp with telltale bits of char. Transfer the bread to a sheet pan and rub one side of the bread lightly with raw garlic. The crispy bread acts as a grater and infuses the bread with the garlic aroma and flavors — so don’t be too heavy handed — you won’t use the whole clove. Cut the bread into halves or thirds (depending on how large the slices are) and serve in a bread basket or alongside the marrow bones.
  3. When the marrow has finished roasting, transfer to a serving platter and sprinkle with chopped parsley and lemon zest.
  4. To serve, use a small spreader knife to scoop out the marrow – spread it on the grilled garlic toasts, like butter and enjoy!
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 20 minutes
  • Category: Appetizer
  • Cuisine: French

 

View Comments (14)
  • Today I found (and bought) eight marrow spoons from a junk/antique shop. I’m dying to get home to order some bones from my butcher. He loves a challenge. What a great starter it will be.






  • If the butcher cuts the marrow bones in one or one and a half inch rounds, which side is cut side up when placing on the foil lines baking sheet? Just wondering. The pictures show them cut in rounds not cut oblong like a baguette.

  • I have never tried bone marrow before, but saw it on Bar Rescue, and everyone who was eating it, was very complimentary on the taste. Do I looked it up and your recipe came up and it does sound delicious and I am going to give it a try. Thank you.

  • Just bought a bunch of marrow bones.Ill try anything .Thanks for telling me how to prepare and eat them. I remember my German mother using them as dumplinss in her FAMOUS soups. Had baked marrows in fancy eateries all over Europe and ENJOYED them ! Guten appetit, to me .

  • I read that you have to soak the marrow bones first for 24 hours to remove impurities and blood …is that what you did ?

    • Hi Mimi,
      I’ve been eating and cooking bone marrow for a long time. No need to soak. If it’s from a clean butcher or grocery store, there shouldn’t be any ‘impurities’.
      Enjoy!

  • Drizzle some oil on top and pour those over our steaks to get the seasoning and flavors before drizzling it on top of the bone marrow serving plate. Sooo good.






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