Homemade Whipped Garlic Herb Butter For Bread And Butter Pudding Sauce | Recipe

Homemade Whipped Garlic Herb Butter For Bread And Butter Pudding Sauce | Recipe

Garlic herb butter is a delicious compound butter made with fresh herbs and roasted garlic. This homemade condiment recipe makes the perfect topping for baked or mashed potatoes, garlic bread, or pasta.

What’s in garlic herb butter?

 A blend of fresh herbs, roasted garlic, and creamy butter are in this homemade condiment. It’s also known as compound butter. This herb butter recipe uses several fresh herbs, which are chopped and mixed into the butter: 

parsley 

basil 

chives 

In addition to the fresh herbs, we add roasted garlic cloves, made by roasting heads of garlic in a cocotte (coquette). 

The beautiful thing about making homemade compound butter is that any blend of fresh herbs can be used. If you don’t care for parsley, basil, or chives, feel free to swap them out for something you enjoy. Common herbs found in garlic herb butter are dill, oregano, rosemary, and thyme.

What are uses for a garlic herb butter recipe? 

You can add flavored butter to so many things! Basically, any dish that needs a punch of flavor is the perfect reason to use it.

1. Use it as a topping on baked sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, or Instant Pot rice. 
2. Add a tablespoon of garlic herb butter to a hot skillet before making scrambled eggs. 
3. Spread it onto toast 
4. Add some compound butter to steamed vegetables. It’s delicious on Brussels sprouts and green beans! 
5. Lemon and dill herb butter is fantastic on grilled fish! 
6. Add a teaspoon of the butter on top of grilled steak.

How to make garlic herb butter

The recipe below will explain exactly how to make this recipe, but here the simple steps involved.

1. Bring 250 grams of salted butter to room temperature. 
2. Set your oven to 400 degrees F. and roast a full head or single bulb of garlic in a cocotte.
3.  Remove the fresh herbs from their stalks and chop them very finely. You will need a total of 1 cup of chopped fresh herbs for this recipe

GARLIC HERB BUTTER 

PREP TIME: 15 MINUTES       COOK TIME: 40 MINUTES  

TOTAL TIME: 55 MINUTES       SERVINGS: 1 CUPS 

Garlic herb butter is a delicious compound butter made with fresh herbs and roasted garlic. This homemade condiment recipe makes the perfect topping for baked or mashed potatoes, garlic bread, or pasta.

INGREDIENTS 

▢1 bulb garlic 

▢1 cup chopped soft herbs (or 1/4 cup harder more aromatic herbs) 

▢250 g (salted) butter

INSTRUCTIONS Preheat oven to 400F (200C) and take the butter out of the fridge to soften at room temperature. 

Remove paper-like coat of bulb of garlic and cut about 1/3 of the top part off to expose all cloves, make sure to leave the bulb intact. Drizzle a couple of drops of oil over each clove, place bulb into a cocotte and place the lid on top or wrap in aluminum foil. (see video)

 In the meantime, wash and spin dry herbs and then de-stalk them. Chop herbs finely until you have about 1 cup of chopped herbs. Add chopped herbs, 

roasted soft garlic and softened butter to a bowl and mash and mix with a fork until very well combined. Make sure to mash the roasted garlic nicely into the butter. 

Store in an air-tight container in the fridge.

NOTES Use either 

1 cup soft herbs like parsley, chives, basil, cilantro, dill, etc. 

Or 1/4 cup aromatic herbs like thyme, rosemary, sage, oregano, etc. 

You can also mix and match just make sure you use little of the aromatic herbs and you can use a lot of the soft herbs

NUTRITION Calories: 1452kcal | Carbohydrates: 3g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 162g | 

Saturated Fat: 102g | Cholesterol: 430mg | Sodium: 1455mg | 

Potassium: 313mg | Fiber: 1g | Vitamin A: 9040IU | Vitamin C: 63.9mg | 

Calcium: 114mg | Iron: 3mg 

Course Sauce, vegetarian    Cuisine International 

Keyword Garlic Herb Butter, Herb Butter

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