Garlic Herb Butter Recipe
A Garlic Herb Butter recipe, perfect for enhancing summer grilling. Made with softened unsalted butter, fresh parsley, chives, and minced garlic, this herb butter adds a burst of flavor to steak, veggies, pasta, or baked potatoes. Making a compound butter for steak recipe takes only 15 minutes to prepare, yielding 8 servings at 108 calories each. It includes tips for peeling and mincing garlic, using fresh herbs, and shaping the butter for storage.
A Compound Butter for Steak is easy to make and it can be kept handy to drop on your favorite steak. But it’s not just for steak, try it on veggies, pasta or on a baked potato. It’s delicious on most of your grilling favorites and if you are like us here on the ranch, we are doing loads of grilling this summer. A pat of this butter on your favorite cut of steak is just heavenly. This Garlic Herbed Butter can be kept in the fridge for up to a week or can be cut into pats and frozen for longer storage.
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Make your summer grilling fun and flavorsome with this simple herb butter recipe! Perfect on steak, it’s also a versatile flavor punch for a host of dishes. With fresh herbs and garlic, this butter is easy to make and a joy to taste. Don’t just stop at steak, transform your grilling favs from delicious to divine!
A pat of heavenly herbed butter, melting over that hot-off-the-grill steak, veggies, even your beloved pasta. It’s the secret flavor booster you never knew you needed. And oh-so simple to make! We know that you will be unable to resist this flavorful melting butter over a sizzling steak. And it’s so easy and so worth it. Ready to tantalize your taste buds?
The easiest way to peel and mince garlic cloves:
I make this Compound Butter for steak using a variety of herbs but I always always use fresh garlic cloves. Garlic and Butter go together like salt and pepper. And it’s such a perfect combo. And one of the easiest ways to peel fresh and mince garlic cloves is this combo of a Garlic Peeler tube and Garlic Chopper or Mincer .
Place the unpeeled clove into the Garlic Peeler Rubber tube and roll with your hands putting a little pressure on it, dump out the peeled clove. Then place the peeled cloves into the Green Garlic mincer, place the top on it and using a little pressure to push the sides together, spin the top. The cloves will come out perfectly minced each and every time. Easy Peasy.
Also, we use fresh parsley and fresh chives out of the garden. These herbs can be purchased at your local grocery store but it’s so much cheaper to grow your own. But if you don’t have fresh herbs, read here on how easy it is to make an indoor herb garden.
Garlic Herb Butter Recipe:
Ingredients:
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
- ¼ cup Fresh Parsley chopped
- 1 Tablespoon fresh chives sliced
- 2 cloves garlic minced
Equipment Needed:
- Garlic Peeler
- Garlic Chopper
- Herb Scissors, optional
- Mixing Bowl
- Dinner Fork
- Clear Wrap
🥣 Recipe Tips
- Use Room-Temperature Butter: Ensure the butter is softened to room temperature before mixing, as melted butter won’t hold the herbs and garlic properly. Let it sit out for about 30-60 minutes to achieve a pliable, creamy texture for easy blending.
- Finely Chop Herbs for Even Distribution: Chop the parsley and chives as finely as possible to ensure they blend seamlessly into the butter. Using herb scissors or a sharp knife helps create a uniform texture, enhancing flavor in every bite.
- Chill Before Shaping: After forming the butter into a log with plastic wrap, refrigerate it for about 15-20 minutes to firm slightly before rolling it into a perfect cylinder. This makes it easier to achieve a smooth, round shape without sticking to the wrap.
How to make a compound butter for steak, veggies …
We start this compound butter by taking a stick of butter, (½ cup) and letting it come up to room temperature. It doesn’t work very well if you melt it, it just needs to be room temperature soft. We gathered fresh chives, fresh parsley and a couple cloves of garlic. Chop the herbs, this can be done using Herb Scissors and then mince the garlic cloves.
Add the herbs and garlic to the softened butter and mix with a fork. Make sure the garlic is well incorporated.
Spoon the mixture on a piece of clear wrap and close the wrap. Gently form an elongated tube of butter mixture. Then twist the ends of the wrap and tie off. Place the tube of butter into the refrigerator and allow to harden. Also, before it completely hardens, it can be taken out and rolled gently with your hand to make a perfectly round shape.
As you are cooking your steak, remove the herb butter from the fridge and sliced into round pats of butter. And as soon as the steaks come off the grill, place a cut pat of butter on the top and allow to melt over each of the hot steaks.
Upgrade your grilling favorites with this easy-to-make Garlic Herbed Butter RecipeAnd don’t stop at just steak, try it on veggies, pasta, and more.
A pat of Herb Butter is probably one of the easiest ways to add a burst of flavor. Having a little roll of this herbed butter in your fridge can rock so many of your dishes.
This Parsley and Chive Herb Compound Butter for Steak Recipe is my favorite. And it’s a great place to start a Herb Butter addiction of your very own.
Serve this Garlic Herb Butter Recipe with:
🥣 Recipe
Equipment
- Dinner Fork
- Clear Wrap
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter 1 stick
- ¼ cup Fresh Parsley chopped
- 1 Tablespoon fresh chives sliced
- 2 cloves garlic minced
Instructions
- Place butter in a small bowl and allow to come to room temperature
- Add parsley, chives, and garlic. Mix with a fork, mashing all herbs into the butter
- Place mixture on a piece of clear wrap, roll into a log shape, twist ends to seal.
- Or butter can be shaped into hearts, logs or even butterflies.
- Chill in fridge until firm. Can be stored in the fridge for a week or in the freezer for a couple months
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I love herbed butter – especially on grilled steak!! Mmmmmmmmm!