What is compound butter? It is butter that is softened, and then mixed with either sweet or savory ingredients. Compound butters are delicious when left as a spread, to use on toasts or refrigerated and then sliced to put on a steak. You can mix the butter with honey, or syrup, fresh herbs, or dried herbs, and even fruit juice. The only limit is your imagination. The compound butter we are making today will be perfect served on grilled chicken, grilled corn or cornbread.
Herb Butter
(adapted from Land O Lakes)
1/2 cup Butter, softened
2 tablespoons Finely chopped Red Pepper
1/8 teaspoon dried Oregano Leaves
1/4 teaspoon dried Basil Leaves
Pinch of dried rubbed Sage
a food processor, chop the pepper strips to a very fine size.
and mix thoroughly with a spoon or spatula.
Cover the mix and set it aside for 1 hour to let the
butter absorb the herbs.
After the hour is up, place the butter on a piece of plastic.
Use the plastic to form the butter into a log.
Cover the log with the plastic.
Refrigerate the log until it has hardened
After it has hardened, unwrap.
Slice into small pieces and place on corn or grilled chicken
as they come off the grill! Delicious!
Enjoy!
Thanks for joining me today!
Later today I will be posting the menu and grocery list
for this week. It’s hot outside here in Las Vegas, and it’s muggy too!
We are spoiled and not used to that!! So our menu this week
is a cool one. Very little heat!
See you then!
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