Roasted Garlic Butter
This roasted garlic butter has a sweet, slightly smoky flavor from the roasted garlic. It’s delicious on bread, steaks and more.
Compound butters are an easy way to add some variety to your meals. The flavors are seemingly endless, from this bold and tangy cranberry compound butter to oniony chive butter and mild garlic scape butter, they can each add some new flavor profiles to your meal. This roasted garlic compound butter is no different.
What you Need
- Garlic heads: Use whole heads of garlic or break the cloves off of the head to roast them. When you roast the cloves you won’t need to season them. Just use a little butter or olive oil in the pan when you roast them.
- Butter: Good quality butter will make a huge difference in the flavor of the final product.
- Olive Oil: Just use a splash of oil to mix everything to a spreadable consistency.
- Seasonings: Sea or kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper.
- Fresh Herbs: Use a variety of fresh herbs. Rosemary, parsley, thyme, sage, chives, basil and dill are great herbs to add to compound butter.
How to Make it
Roast the garlic for 45 minutes to one hour at 375°F in the oven. Cut the tops off of the garlic bulbs and drizzle them with olive oil. See our step-by-step article for how to roast garlic.
Let the garlic cool enough to handle. Remove the cloves from the head.
Mix room-temperature softened butter with mashed roasted garlic cloves, herbs, seasonings, and a splash of oil in a small bowl to form a spreadable consistency.
To form a log, use a baking spatula to spread the butter on a piece of waxed paper or plastic wrap.
Gather the waxed paper together.
Roll the butter on the counter to form a log. Refrigerate for 3-4 hours until the butter hardens up.
Cut the log into slices.
How to Make Roasted Garlic Garlic Bread
Slather the butter on one side of the sliced bread.
Wrap the bread in aluminum foil. Bake it in the oven for about 10 minutes at 350°F.
How to Store Butter
Roasted garlic compound butter can be refrigerated for 5-6 days. For longer storage, pack the butter in freezer bags or an airtight container and freeze. For the best flavor, use the butter within six months.
How to Use the Butter
- Roasted garlic butter makes incredible garlic bread with a more mellow, mild flavor than raw garlic.
- It’s also delicious with steamed or roasted vegetables like summer squash or asparagus.
- Use it for a butter board, which is all the new rage at parties. It’s way easier and cheaper than a charcuterie board and just as fun.
- Top steaks like our smoked steaks with a pat of the butter.
- Roasted garlic butter is great for fish and seafood. Use it for pan-fried perch, scallops, shrimp and more.
- Use it to make roasted garlic mashed potatoes.
- Use it on pasta. Mix the garlic butter, pasta water, cracked black pepper, red pepper flakes, lemon zest, and parmesan cheese for an easy pasta sauce that the whole family will love.
- It also adds a fantastic flavor to sautéed mushrooms.
This butter will elevate any dish to the next level of flavor. It’s an easy, delicious condiment to make. Homemade roasted garlic butter will take your cooking to the next level. Try some today.
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Roasted Garlic Compound Butter
Ingredients
- ½ lb unsalted butter, softened to room temperature.
- 2 heads roasted garlic
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary
- 2 teaspoons fresh parsley
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme
- 1 splash Olive Oil
- ½ teaspoon coarse kosher salt or sea salt
- ¼ teaspoon cracked black pepper
Instructions
- Mash the garlic cloves with a baking spatula or a large fork. Chop herbs.2 heads roasted garlic
- Add butter, garlic and herbs together. Mix thoroughly. Wrap in wax paper or plastic wrap. Cool in refrigerator or store in freezer to prolong shelf life.½ lb unsalted butter, softened to room temperature., 2 teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary, 2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme, 1 splash Olive Oil, ½ teaspoon coarse kosher salt or sea salt, ¼ teaspoon cracked black pepper
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