Compound butter is a delicious treat that you can easily make for yourself. It takes three steps and the flavored butter recipe that follows can be tweaked to your own personal liking, or even applied with soft cheeses like cream cheese, goat cheese, and blue cheese, if you want to personalize more spreads apart from butter.
I got interested with compound butter after visiting Bohol and seeing the lovely bread spreads from Bohol Bee Farm. They taste so good! I figured you can make your own and surprise, surprise, it’s so simple. Use it on bread, steak, chicken, pasta, grilled fish, and potatoes – the list goes on and on. Flavored butter easily turns what is okay to something great effortlessly. 😉
Compound butter also makes a lovely present! A wrapped slab of compound butter is so special and gourmet looking, you’d be making this for everyone you know every time, believe me. Plus, even the biggest newbie can whip this up in no time at all. It’s so satisfying!
Easy Flavored Butter Recipe
The base: 1 stick (1/2 cup or 4 oz.) of softened unsalted butter.
Versatile: Add 1 tablespoon of grated citrus rind: lemon, orange – anything you like!
Savory: Add 3 cloves of garlic and 1 tablespoon of chopped chives. (Omit the chives for a garlic butter recipe or use other herbs you have at home – a great way to use up left over herbs :wink:)
Sweet: Add 1 tablespoon cinnamon, honey, or maple syrup.
What to do:
1. In a bowl, combine the chosen flavoring with the softened stick of butter. Use a spoon or spatula to mix everything in nicely.
2. Get a piece of wax paper and transfer the compound butter mixture. Roll it into a log and twist the ends to seal.
3. Chill the compound butter for at least one hour then slice for use as necessary. This will keep for three weeks.
That’s all. Enjoy your compound butter! 🙂
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I should not be reading this! It’s not meal time yet, and I am already starving! gosh!
this is a good thing to add to make buttered chicken… the idea makes me hungry too!
will try this. bumibili pa kasi ako sa Pan de Manila. eh ang mahal mahal! 🙂
that’s true, kg. compound butter is expensive but so easy to make. subukan mo with wendy! 🙂
wow! this looks easy.. i’ll try to do this sometime… yum..
go for it. try to make several so you can give it out as presents too!
cooking is so much easier nowadays with all the tools we get online. we can all be gourmet. although i still don’t like the kitchen too much.
i agree but often i get an intense satisfaction in making things with my own hands. 🙂 i’m not a big kitchen diva too but i’m starting to get really interested with all the things you can do in the kitchen.
Such an easy way to “melt” flavor into any dish. Thanks for the great ideas!
yes, melt is the term. 🙂 np, try it yourself!