Garlic Herb Butter

Garlic herb butter is a delicious compound butter made with fresh herbs and roasted garlic. This homemade condiment recipe makes the perfect topping for baked or mashed potatoes, garlic bread, or pasta.

What’s in garlic herb butter?

A blend of fresh herbs, roasted garlic, and creamy butter are in this homemade condiment. It’s also known as compound butter.
This herb butter recipe uses several fresh herbs, which are chopped and mixed into the butter:

• parsley
• basil
• chives

In addition to the fresh herbs, we add roasted garlic cloves, made by roasting heads of garlic in a cocotte (coquette).

The beautiful thing about making homemade compound butter is that any blend of fresh herbs can be used. If you don’t care for parsley, basil, or chives, feel free to swap them out for something you enjoy. Common herbs found in garlic herb butter are dill, oregano, rosemary, and thyme.

Can you freeze garlic herb butter?

Flavored butter freezes beautifully, keeping well for up to 6 months when it’s wrapped tightly in plastic wrap. For the freshest flavor and to reduce the chance of freezer burn, I also place it in a silicone freezer bag.

Similar to plain butter, your compound butter will stay fresh in the refrigerator for several weeks. Because fresh herbs hold up better under refrigeration, it’s best not to store the butter at room temperature.

What are uses for a garlic herb butter recipe?

You can add flavored butter to so many things! Basically, any dish that needs a punch of flavor is the perfect reason to use it. You can add roasted garlic herb butter to vegetables, meats, and even breakfast recipes. Here are a few ideas to get you started:

1. Use it as a topping on baked sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, or Instant Pot rice.
2. Add a tablespoon of garlic herb butter to a hot skillet before making scrambled eggs.
3. Spread it onto toast
4. Add some compound butter to steamed vegetables. It’s delicious on Brussels sprouts and green beans!
5. Lemon and dill herb butter is fantastic on grilled fish!
6. Add a teaspoon of the butter on top of grilled steak, then grab a napkin, because there may be some drool involved!. Haha!

How to make garlic herb butter

The recipe below will explain exactly how to make this recipe, but here the simple steps involved.

1. Bring 250 grams of salted butter to room temperature.
2. Set your oven to 400 degrees F. and roast a full head or single bulb of garlic in a cocotte.
3. Remove the fresh herbs from their stalks and chop them very finely. You will need a total of 1 cup of chopped fresh herbs for this recipe.

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Garlic Herb Butter

Garlic herb butter is a delicious compound butter made with fresh herbs and roasted garlic. This homemade condiment recipe makes the perfect topping for baked or mashed potatoes, garlic bread, or pasta.

Course Sauce, vegetarian

Cuisine International

Keyword Garlic Herb Butter, Herb Butter

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 40 minutes

Total Time 55 minutes

Servings 1 cups

Calories 1452 kcal

Ingredients

• 1 bulb garlic
• 1 cup chopped soft herbs (or 1/4 cup harder more aromatic herbs) see notes
• 250 g (salted) butter 2 sticks

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400F (200C) and take the butter out of the fridge to soften at room temperature.

2. Remove paper-like coat of bulb of garlic and cut about 1/3 of the top part off to expose all cloves, make sure to leave the bulb intact. Drizzle a couple of drops of oil over each clove, place bulb into a cocotte and place the lid on top or wrap in aluminum foil. (see video)

3. In the meantime, wash and spin dry herbs and then de-stalk them. Chop herbs finely until you have about 1 cup of chopped herbs. 

4. Add chopped herbs, roasted soft garlic and softened butter to a bowl and mash and mix with a fork until very well combined. Make sure to mash the roasted garlic nicely into the butter.

5. Store in an air-tight container in the fridge.

Recipe Video

Recipe Notes

Use either

1 cup soft herbs like parsley, chives, basil, cilantro, dill, etc.

Or 1/4 cup aromatic herbs like thyme, rosemary, sage, oregano, etc.

You can also mix and match just make sure you use little of the aromatic herbs and you can use a lot of the soft herbs

Nutrition Facts

Garlic Herb Butter

Amount Per Serving

Calories 1452 Calories from Fat 1458

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 162g 249%

Saturated Fat 102g 510%

Cholesterol 430mg 143%

Sodium 1455mg 61%

Potassium 313mg 9%

Total Carbohydrates 3g 1%

Dietary Fiber 1g 4%

Protein 3g 6%

Vitamin A 180.8%

Vitamin C 77.4%

Calcium 11.4%

Iron 16.5%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.