COMPOUND BUTTER RECIPES

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Nine Compound Butter Recipes and suggested uses. This is a 5-minute recipe that kicks up the flavor of whatever you pair it with.

Compound Butter is another name for Herb Butter. Butter enriched with herbs and seasonings elevates an everyday meal into a gourmet meal.

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Compound Herb Butter


Compound Butter is an amazing low-carb condiment and perfect for those following the keto diet. They add amazing flavor to fish, steak, chicken, vegetables, corn, bread, etc.

The basic ingredient is butter mixed with herbs, spices, or other ingredients.

Herb Butters also make a wonderful homemade gift!

Please make sure all the ingredients have reached room temperature before mixing them. Mix the softened butter and spices, herbs, and other ingredients in a medium bowl. Alternatively, you can mix it in a food processor.

Compound Herb Butter

Compound Butter Recipes

Parsley-Shallot Butter
1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temp
1 shallot, minced
2 Tablespoons minced fresh flat-leaf parsley
1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
salt and pepper

Combine butter, shallot, parsley, and lemon juice in a food processor or bowl. Blend.

There are a couple of ways to make compound butter. Mix it and leave it in a container (these bowls are perfect). You can roll the softened mixed butter in plastic wrap as well. Roll into a log about one and 1/2-inch thick and twist the ends to close. Refrigerate for at least one hour or until firm. Remove from refrigerator and slice into 1/2 inch ‘coins’ when steaks go on the grill.

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Combine the different recipes listed as described above. The same process will be used.

Chive-Mustard Butter
1/2 cup butter, room temp
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
1 and 1/2 Tablespoons finely diced fresh chives
1/4 teaspoon pepper

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Parsley Chive Butter

Parsley Chive Butter

Parsley Chive Butter is a delicious compound butter with parsley and chives
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Parsley-horseradish butter is great on steak served with traditional baked potatoes and rolls.

Parsley Horseradish Butter

Parsley Horseradish Butter

Parsley Horseradish Butter is a compound butter that will lift the level of any recipe.

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Basil Garlic Butter is one of my very favorite compound butter.

Basil Garlic Butter. Fresh basil and minced garlic cloves make delicious compound butter.

Basil Garlic Butter

Basil Garlic Butter. Fresh basil and minced garlic cloves make delicious compound butter.

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Jalapeno-Chili Butter  – Love this on Six Minute Flat Iron Steak served with Mexican Rice.

Jalapeno Chili Butter

Jalapeno Chili Butter

Jalapeno Chili Butter is a delicious compound butter with spicy jalapenos and chili.

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Strawberry Butter is great on homemade sourdough bread, crusty French bread, pancakes, and biscuits.

Strawberry Butter

Strawberry Butter

Made with just two ingredients Strawberry Butter is great on quick bread, yeast bread, biscuits, pancakes, toast, scones, and rolls.

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Cinnamon Roll Filling is another name for cinnamon butter. It’s glorious on toast, rolls, biscuits, and pancakes.

Cinnamon Roll Filling

Cinnamon Roll Filling

 Butter and cinnamon are combined with brown sugar to make this Cinnamon Roll Filling paste.
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12 Comments

  1. Excuse my ignorance, but are all the herb butters made with unsalted butter? Just checking because I want to make some of these and not sure…

    1. Karen, they don’t have to be. I do prefer to make them with un-salted so that it doesn’t interfer with the natural flavors of the herbs. In a tight, I have made them with salted though. If you use salted butter, just be aware of how much salt you add to the dish you put it in/on.

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