Compound Butter

A compound butter is basically butter with a bunch of other stuff added to it. It's a great instant sauce for just about anything! I served mine with chicken and mashed potatoes. Compound butter is amazing because it's really easy to make (all you do is cut and then stir). There are a million different flavor combinations that you can use. Here are a few ideas: use soy, ginger, and garlic to make an asian butter, use chili powders and spices to make a mexican butter, use fresh herbs and citrus for a mediterranean butter.

For the butter I made I wanted to echo flavors that were in the rest of the dish. I also wanted to make it have a really bright and fresh flavor so I used a lot of citrus. Feel free to get creative with your compound butter!!!

Ingredients:

1/2 stick of room temp butter
1 tbs. fresh thyme, chopped
1 tbs. green onion, chopped
1 tsp. lemon juice
1/2 tsp. lemon zest
salt and pepper

Directions:

1. Make sure your butter is at room temp otherwise this will be a lot harder to mix.

2. Cut up all herbs and other components of the sauce.

3. In a small bowl, combine all the ingredients until everything is well mixed.

4. You can use this instantly and spoon onto the dish or you can use parchment and wrap it into a cylinder shape and place in the fridge to harden. Then later, slice off medallions of the butter and top on whatever you are serving!