If you've ever been to a fancy, white-linens-on-the-table restaurant, chances are you've been floored by bread and butter. Such a simple thing can be done so well, and this is the reason for people accidentally filling up on bread in restaurants the world over. If you're lucky, the bread is crusty on the outside, soft on the inside, and perfectly warm, as if it just came out of the oven. The butter is also simply something else. Be it in fancy shapes, pre-cut into pats, salted and spreadable, or best, flavored with aromatics, fancy restaurant butter kicks home butter's butt.
Luckily, we know how to bring restaurant-level elegance and deliciousness into your home with minimal ingredients and without the restaurant-level check at the end of the meal. Here are five amazing recipes that show how to make different flavored butters, also called compound butters, at home. Buy a warm baguette to spread them on, and you'll be immediately on cloud nine.
Roasted Garlic Butter from Whipperberry. Simple and perfect, you will have a very hard time not spreading this on everything you ingest. It's super garlicky but not pungent, because the garlic is roasted into submission before being whipped into the butter.
Honey Butter from Sally's Baking Addiction. Sweet and a tiny bit salty, this butter is the best friend of pancakes, cornbread, and any muffin to ever grace the planet.
Smoky Roasted Red Pepper Butter from Bon Appetit. This butter will spice up a plate of grilled fish and potatoes with its red hue and amazing taste.
Parsley Chili Garlic Lemon Butter from Sea Salt With Food. Spread this on toast, rub it on an ear of corn, or melt it and drizzle it over popcorn for a fancy movie snack.
Rosemary, Thyme and Garlic Butter from Center Cut Cook. This is the classic restaurant compound butter. Place a pat on top of a steak right after it comes off the grill and watch it turn into a buttery, herby sauce in seconds.
