Compound butters are very easy to make and a great way to impress dinner guests. Simply add any herb, spice or another ingredient you like the flavour of, to softened butter, then blend and chill. You can use compound butter anywhere you’d use regular butter, such as on warm bread, on corn on the cob, or as a finishing garnish on a steak. Here are a few additions and what it goes best with.
1. Add fresh or dried herbs
Use it on: Meats, poultry, fish, veggies, starches, bread
2. Add capers
Use it on: Fish, poultry
3. Add fresh garlic
Use it on: Meats, poultry, fish, veggies, starches, bread
4. Add citrus zest
Use it on: Meats, fish, veggies, starches
5. Add chili peppers
Use it on: Meats, poultry, fish, veggies, starches
6. Add grated Parmesan cheese
Use it on: Meats, poultry, veggies, starches
7. Add finely chopped sun-dried tomatoes
Use it on: Meats, poultry, fish, veggies, starches, bread
8. Add finely chopped olives
Use it on: Meats, poultry, fish, veggies, starches, bread
9. Add finely chopped dried figs
Use it on: Bread, muffins, other baked things
10. Add maple sugar
Use it on: Bread, muffins, other baked things
11. Add raisins, currants, dried cranberries
Use it on: Bread, muffins, other baked things
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From Hudson, Quebec, now living in Port Hope, Ontario, Signe is a restaurant chef-turned-writer who tells award-winning stories and creates delicious recipes for LCBO’s Food & Drink, Manna Pro Hearty Homestead, The Harvest Commission, and Today’s Parent; she published her first book – Happy Hens & Fresh Eggs; Keeping Chickens in the Kitchen Garden with 100 Recipes – in 2015.
