Last Updated April 25th, 2024 at 10:37 am by Lisa
Herb Butter is fantastic melted on roasted vegetables, hot pasta, sizzling grilled steaks, warm baguettes, spread on tea sandwiches, or dinner rolls.
Flavored butter is an easy condiment to create in your kitchen and will keep for weeks. When dinner is ready, have it ready to slather on hot food and bread...
Herb Butter Recipe
Once you taste this herbed butter recipe, you will use it in so many ways it will change your cooking.
This recipe is a base. If you want to make it into a garlic herb compound butter, go for it! Simply add a couple cloves garlic finely crushed.
Use garlic herb butter for steaks, potatoes, artichokes, toasted warm bread and so much more.
- ½ cup butter soften at room temperature
- ¼ cup fresh herbs minced rosemary, parsley, thyme, basil
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon fresh cracked black pepper
Mix Herbed Butter
PRO TIP: Cut the cube into little cubes and it will soften faster!
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Leave the butter out at room temperature for 2 hours to soften or cut into little cubes and it will soften faster.
Chop herbs finely on a cutting board with a good chef's knife. Or, try this. Snip fresh herbs in a small mug or glass jar with clean kitchen scissors until the herbs are finely minced!
In a small bowl, mix softened butter, ¼ cup finely chopped herbs, ½ teaspoon sea salt, and 1 teaspoon fresh cracked pepper in a small bowl with a spatula.
Place your mixture in a small sealed container with a lid, or cover with a piece of plastic wrap. It will keep in the refrigerator for a week.
Place on parchment paper (or wax paper) in a log shape, roll, and twist the ends closed. Place in a ziptop bag, and freeze for up to 4 months. OR Place in a small sealed container with a lid, it will keep in the fridge for about 2 weeks.
For fancier shapes, use silicone molds or wood butter paddles. See recipe notes for more ideas.
Fancy Butter Shapes For Parties
Molded Shapes: For the holidays, you can press it into a leaf shaped candy mold or any fancy shape for that holiday like trees, hearts, or bunnies!
Classic Coins: In cooking school, they taught us to wrap the soft mixture into parchment paper in a log, freeze it, then slice it into "coins". This is free, fast, and pretty. I keep the sliced coins in a freezer bag, frozen, then pull out a couple when I want them.
Butter Balls: Scoop small 1" portions of semi room temperature butter between wood paddles (that are actually used for gnocchi) and create beautiful herb butter balls!
Container Storage: Store in a small covered container, or bowl wrapped in plastic wrap, or wrap in parchment paper. Chill until it is firm enough to be sliced. Bring to room temperature to spread.
More Butter Herbs And Add-Ins
Take this herbal butter recipe and snip herbs and seasonal ingredients growing in your garden. In the Fall try sage and rosemary. For summer, lemon, basil, dill, or chives.
What a great way to use up extra herbs you have on hand, or pick from your garden...
- fresh thyme
- fresh rosemary
- crushed garlic
- fresh sage
- fresh dill
- minced chives
- fresh tarragon
- lemon zest or lemon juice
- fresh oregano
- diced green onions
I used fresh basil, Italian parsley, rosemary, and thyme from my herb garden.🌿🍃🪴
Compound Herb Butter Top Tips
Pick a high-quality brand of fresh butter, I recommend salted but unsalted works fine. Let it soften to room temperature for a couple of hours so it's easier to mix and blend in the seasonings.
Fresh herbs work best, you can clean them underwater and allow them to air dry for several hours prior to chopping.
Both dried and fresh herbs may be used to season, but I think fresh-grown ones have much more flavor than dried herbs, and they are beautiful!
The Easy Way To Cut Herbs
My Mom taught me how to make this recipe, and I always think of her when I am making a batch.
She also taught me to snip the herbs in the jar or coffee cup. Of course, you can always chop on a cutting board. I just do it the way she showed me all those years ago...it is fast, easy, and effective. And any unused herbs can stay in the jar for other recipes!
Yes, place soft compound butter on parchment paper in a log shape, roll, and twist ends closed. Place in a zip-top bag, and freeze for up to 2 months.
Compound butter is made by mixing soft butter with other ingredients like fresh herbs, citrus, and spices. They are created and used to build flavor in recipes such as melting on meats, vegetables, and seafood, or spread on fresh-baked bread.
Herb Butter Recipes
- Spread on any warm loaf of bread or Hot Dinner Rolls
- Smear on Crispy Smashed Potatoes
- Use as herbed butter for steak
- Melt slices on grilled or baked potatoes
- Make homemade garlic butter, and add crushed garlic!
- Try on shrimp or Grilled Salmon
- Melt it on Roasted Potatoes
- Incredible on Mashed Potatoes
- Great on Grilled Corn on the Cob
- Rub under turkey or chicken before roasting
Try this recipe on my super easy Herb Roasted Turkey Breast, just what you want if you like leftover turkey for Thanksgiving or the holidays...🦃 The herb mixture flavors the poultry and keeps it moist while helping to crisp the skin of the roast chicken or turkey.
More Compound Butter Recipes
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Herb Butter Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter soften at room temperature
- ¼ cup fresh herbs minced rosemary, parsley, thyme, basil
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon fresh cracked pepper
- other herbs to try! sage, dill, chives, tarragon, oregano, or green onions
Instructions
- Leave the butter out at room temperature for 2 hours to soften or cut into little cubes and it will soften faster.
- Chop herbs finely on a cutting board with a good chef knife. Or, try this. Snip fresh herbs in a small mug or glass jar with clean kitchen scissors until the herbs are finely minced!
- In a small bowl, mix softened butter, ¼ cup finely chopped herbs, ½ teaspoon sea salt and 1 teaspoon fresh cracked pepper in a small bowl with a spatula. (
- Place your mixture in a small sealed container with a lid, or cover with a piece of plastic wrap. It will keep in the refrigerator for a week.
- Place on parchment paper (or wax paper) in a log shape, roll, and twist the ends closed. Place in a ziptop bag, and freeze for up to 4 months. OR Place in a small sealed container with a lid, it will keep in the fridge for about 2 weeks.
- For fancier shapes, use a silicone mold or wood butter paddles. See recipe notes for more ideas.
Notes
Uses & Recipe Ideas
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- Spread on any warm loaf of bread or Hot Dinner Rolls
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- Smear on Crispy Smashed Potatoes
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- Use as herbed butter for steak
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- Melt slices on grilled or baked potatoes
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- Make homemade garlic butter, and add crushed garlic!
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- Try on shrimp or Grilled Salmon
-
- Melt it on Roasted Potatoes
-
- Incredible on Mashed Potatoes
-
- Great on Grilled Corn on the Cob
- Rub under turkey or chicken before roasting. Try this recipe on my super easy Herb Roasted Turkey Breast, just what you want if you like leftover turkey!
We made this herb butter and served it over a Whiskey marinated steak! This was beyond easy to make and so good over steak!
This is a naughty recipe for me because once I make it I want to slather it on warm bread, pasta, potatoes ... you name it. I love that I can play with the herbs and see what combos I like best on what.