Best Compound Butter Recipes

Name: Compound Butter Recipes: Smoky Tomato, Meyer Lemon-Dill, Spiced Chai
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Ingredients: ⅓ cup unsalted butter (softened); ½ teaspoon tomato paste; ¼ teaspoon smoked paprika; salt and freshly ground pepper to taste; ⅓ cup unsalted butter (softened); 1 teaspoon Meyer lemon zest; 1 teaspoon Meyer lemon juice; ½ teaspoon finely chopped fresh dill; salt and freshly ground pepper to taste; ⅓ cup unsalted butter (softened); ½ teaspoon golden brown sugar; ⅛ teaspoon ground cardamom; ⅛ teaspoon ground cinnamon; ⅛ teaspoon ground cloves; ⅛ teaspoon ground ginger

March 17, 2013 By valentina 52 Comments

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Using the best compound butter recipes is a fabulous way to elevate a dish. And the beauty of it is that you can flavor the butter with just about anything! 3 colorful bowls full of Compound Butters To have great success while cooking, you must start with the best ingredients possible. This is true whether we’re talking about anything from a fresh tomato to pasta, and of course, to butter!

I’ve been using Kerrygold butter for the past year or so — and don’t foresee using another butter in the near future.

Kerrygold Irish Butter package So creamy, so rich, and so delicious! You can learn more about this beautiful Irish butter and other Kerrygold products here.

So let’s create with this delicious butter, shall we?

Compound Butter Recipes

While spreading plain butter on bread is delicious, compound butters are interesting, impressive and can be even more delicious.

A compound butter is simply a butter that has had other flavors added to it.

Compound Butter Recipes in a yellow, blue and red bowl

Compound butter recipes pictured above:

Meyer Lemon-Dill Butter
Spiced Chai Butter
Smoky Tomato Butter

(All three recipes are below.)

More flavor ideas for compound butters:

cinnamon and sugar
pumpkin spice
orange
olives and capers
honey
herbs de provence
curry paste and powders

six images of Compound Butter Recipes in a photo grid

Recipe Tips

It’s always best to use unsalted butter for compound butter recipes. You want to be able to control all of the flavor yourself.
Be sure the butter is at room temperature before you mix in any ingredients. Otherwise, it’s near impossible to blend.

Uses for Compound Butters

These butters are fantastic on breads, bagels, pasta, fish, chicken, steak, and the list goes on. The possibilities are truly endless!

You can make the best compound butter recipes, too. Just look around your pantry to see what you might like to blend into your butter and spread on your bread for your next get together.

More butter recipes for you to try:

Avocado Butter

Hatch Chile-Agave Butter

I also found this delicious recipe for Chocolate Butter.

I hope you enjoy all of the recipes as much as I do!

Compound Butter Recipes: Smoky Tomato, Meyer Lemon-Dill, Spiced Chai

Valentina K. Wein

Using the best compound butter recipes is a fabulous way to elevate a dish. And the beauty of it is that you can flavor the butter with just about anything!

Print Recipe

Prep Time 5 mins

Total Time 5 mins

Course Condiments, Sauces, Dressings and Vinaigrettes

Cuisine American

Servings per recipe

Calories 109 kcal

Ingredients

Smoky Tomato Butter

⅓ cup unsalted butter softened
½ teaspoon tomato paste
¼ teaspoon smoked paprika
salt and freshly ground pepper to taste

Meyer Lemon-Dill Butter

⅓ cup unsalted butter softened
1 teaspoon Meyer lemon zest
1 teaspoon Meyer lemon juice
½ teaspoon finely chopped fresh dill
salt and freshly ground pepper to taste

Spiced Chai Butter

⅓ cup unsalted butter softened
½ teaspoon golden brown sugar
⅛ teaspoon ground cardamom
⅛ teaspoon ground cinnamon
⅛ teaspoon ground cloves
⅛ teaspoon ground ginger

Instructions

For all three recipes

Be sure the butter is at room temperature and is very soft.
Add the softened butter to a small bowl and add the remaining ingredients.
Use a small spoon to mix until it's completely smooth.
With the exception of the Spiced Chai recipe, season to taste with salt and pepper.
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Notes

Not sure exactly how to season to taste? Here's how.

Keywords great for adding to sauces, great for steak, great for pastas

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This is not a sponsored post. Kerrygold sent me samples for recipe testing, and as always, I only promote products I love and use.

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