How to Make Your Own Herb Butter

Herb butters are very easy to make and taste delicious served alongside cooked fish, chicken, or atop a bed of mashed potatoes. Use fresh herbs from your own herb garden, or purchase them from the grocery store, to make an herb butter for a delicious finishing touch to any meal. Be creative and use your own combination of herbs, or try one of these combos: rosemary and garlic butter, cilantro and scallion butter, fennel and lemon zest butter, chives and crushed pepper butter.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 1 stick salted butter, softened
• 2-4 tablespoons of herb comination of your choice (see recommendations above)
• a squirt of lemon juice
• handful of freshly ground black pepper

1. Place the softened butter, herb combination of your choice (see recommendations in the above introduction) a bit of lemon juice, and freshly ground pepper in a bowl.

2. Beat using hand held mixer until butter is evenly speckled with the herbs.

3. Carefully shape the butter into a roll, cover with plastic wrap, and chill.

4. After butter has chilled several hours, remove from fridge and serve with a dish of your choice.

Tips & Warnings

• The flavor of fennel goes well with fish, so try an fennel butter with salmon.
• Cilantros and scallions go well with mashed potatoes--a great butter to serve with Thanksgiving dinner.