Recipe Greek "butter"

Today, I went to a Greek Orthodox funeral (see my last blog posting for my friend's obituary).

Following the funeral and burial, attendees returned to the church for a luncheon in the church social hall.

It was by far the nicest funeral lunch I have ever attended.

But one specific question:

On each bread plate, there was a sculpted dollop of what appeared at first to be butter. It spread like butter. It was delicious. But it wasn't butter.

Someone at my table speculated that it could be hummus. Someone else objected that the color was too light for hummus.

Finally, one of the servers explained that it was [a polysyllabic Greek word none of us could catch]. It consisted of potato, garlic, something, something, something, and caviar.

Does anyone know more about this substance?

 

Would that be Taramousalata?
There are a bunch of different recipes for it but the ones I've seen use old bread, riced potato, garlic, either caviar or carp roe, olive oil, lemon juice, onion and milk.

 

I also vote taramasalata. Looks a lot like humous, but generally more lemony and fishy.

A lot of commercially available product un England has pink colouring in it, which is silly.

 

I thought this thread might be an offshoot of the "too much sperm"fest.
Like another pearly essence reference.
Carry on.