Roasted Garlic Compound Butter
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This Roasted Garlic Compound Butter is a delicious way to jazz up steaks, vegetables, garlic bread and more! It’s a blend of butter, roasted garlic and fresh chives. So delicious!
What You Will ❤️ About Roasted Garlic Butter
- Variety of Flavors! Compound Butter is just a mixture of butter, herbs & spices. It’s great because you can make it different every time!
- Quick! Once your butter is softened – you can mix up this butter in just a few minutes.
- Versatile! You can use this garlic butter to make your own garlic bread, flavor a big juicy ribeye, add to roasted vegetables or even top a baked potato!
Roasted Garlic Herb Butter Ingredients
Compound Butter has very simple ingredients but adds so much flavor to your foods! Here’s what you’ll need:
- Salted butter – we’re going for a savory butter so salted butter works great
- If you’re watching your salt intake or have salty ingredients you’re adding you can always use unsalted butter
- Roasted garlic – it is super easy to roast garlic – I have recipes for doing it in the air fryer or on the smoker!
- You will need a whole head of garlic (6-8 cloves) but don’t be alarmed! Roasting garlic mellows the flavor – so you won’t knock people out with it!
- Quick Take: You’ll take a whole head of garlic and cut the top off. Drizzle with olive oil, salt & pepper. Wrap in aluminum foil and roast in oven, air fryer or even the grill until the garlic bulb or cloves are soft.
- Fresh chives – I’m mainly using this butter on bread and steaks – so I wanted to go heavy on the garlic and a simple herb like chives that adds a little bite but doesn’t take over the flavor too much.
Variations on Compound Butter
I used garlic & chives but you can go so many ways – here are other ideas:
- Herbs – fresh herbs are always great! I have 3 Aerogardens in my kitchen so I have fresh herbs at my fingertips all year round!
- Basil, Parsley and Thyme pair well with just about any savory dish.
- Rosemary and Oregano pair well with pork and chicken.
- Chives pair well with potatoes, chicken, and beef.
- Cheese – mix in your favorite cheese like Parmesan Cheese or Blue Cheese – you want something strong so that it stands out
- Spices – dried spices are just as powerful in flavored butter. Great ones to try would be red pepper flakes, paprika and black pepper.
- Liquids – these can be tricky because you don’t want to make the butter too loose. That said a touch of maple syrup or lemon juice (1 tsp per 1/2 cup) would be delicious!
- Sweet – You can also make a sweet compound butter like this Copycat Texas Roadhouse Cinnamon Butter!
How to Make Compound Butter
- First – you’ll need roasted garlic! I have recipes for doing it in the air fryer or on the smoker! I had some in my fridge so I was ready to go.
- Remove butter from refrigerator and allow to come to room temperature on counter top.
- In a mixing bowl, add softened butter, fresh herbs and roasted garlic cloves. Using a hand mixer, blend until ingredients are evenly incorporated.
- You’ll want to mash the cloves with a fork or dice them.
- Spoon butter onto a sheet of plastic wrap or parchment paper, form into a log, and wrap tightly. Refrigerate until chilled. Slice and serve as needed, storing leftovers in the refrigerator.
- If you want the butter spreadable for fresh bread, bring it to room temperature before using.
How to use Flavored Butter
Now that you have the compound butter – what do you do with it? Here’s a bunch of ideas!
- Steaks – you can cook the steak with the butter or add it after cooking for it to melt into your perfect steak!
- Bread – take garlic bread up a notch with this roast garlic butter recipe! Slice bread, schmear it on both sides and bake until edges are crispy! (4 min in air fryer is perfect)
- Chicken is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
- Vegetables – whether it’s corn on the cob or just a pan of roasted veggies – this roast garlic butter will add so much flavor!
Tips, Tricks & FAQs
What’s the best way to mix the compound butter?
A food processor is probably the best and easiest way because it will chop and blend. That said – I didn’t want to get it out just for 1 stick of butter. So I used a hand mixer – but a stand mixer would work as well
How long does garlic compound butter last?
Compound butter will keep for 5 days in a sealed container in the refrigerator, or for up to 3 months in the freezer.
Should herb butter be refrigerated?
Yes – when you’re adding fresh ingredients – you do need to store the compound butter in the fridge. But you can take it out before using so it softens.
How do you store and reheat leftover compound butter?
Store leftovers in an airtight container (I like these glass storage ones) in the refrigerator for up to five days. You can freeze up to three months.
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Roasted Garlic Compound Butter
This Roasted Garlic Compound Butter is a delicious way to jazz up steaks, vegetables, garlic bread and more! It's a blend of butter, roasted garlic and fresh chives. So delicious!
Ingredients
- 1 stick salted butter
- 8 cloves roasted garlic finely diced
- 1 tbsp fresh chives finely diced
Instructions
- First – you'll need roasted garlic! I have recipes for doing it in the air fryer or on the smoker! I had some in my fridge so I was ready to go.
- Remove butter from refrigerator and allow to come to room temperature on counter top.1 stick salted butter
- In a mixing bowl, add softened butter, fresh herbs and roasted garlic cloves. Using a hand mixer, blend until ingredients are evenly incorporated.8 cloves roasted garlic, 1 tbsp fresh chives
- Spoon butter onto a sheet of plastic wrap or parchment paper, form into a log, and wrap tightly. Refrigerate until chilled. Slice and serve as needed, storing leftovers in the refrigerator.
- If you want the butter spreadable for fresh bread, bring it to room temperature before using.
Notes
**We are not dietitians and recommend you seek a nutritionist for exact nutritional information. The information in the nutrition box are calculated through a program and there is room for error. If you need an accurate count, I recommend running the ingredients through your favorite nutrition calculator.**
Nutrition
Serving: 1tbspCalories: 106kcalCarbohydrates: 1gProtein: 0.3gFat: 11gSaturated Fat: 7gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.4gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0.5gCholesterol: 30mgSodium: 91mgPotassium: 17mgFiber: 0.1gSugar: 0.05gVitamin A: 370IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 9mgIron: 0.1mg
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