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Garlic butter is creamy and spreadable, but it also provides a little flavor boost to all kinds of dishes. With a minimum of time and ingredients, you can learn how to make garlic butter.
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Making Garlic Butter Tips
- Let children help you mix the ingredients for a fun family activity.
- Use spreadable butter to make it easier to put your garlic butter on bread.
- Season your garlic butter to taste.
- Think out of the box; garlic butter isn't just for bread.
- Use fresh garlic or garlic powder from your spice rack.
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Garlic Butter Mixing Demonstration
This video gives you an overview on how to make garlic butter. This particular recipe uses unsalted butter, garlic, chopped parsley, dried thyme, fresh black pepper, salt, and Pernod wine. At the end of the video, you will learn how to freeze your garlic butter, storing it in a tube for later use. To freeze the garlic butter you will put it on a piece of plastic wrap and roll it up, using twist ties to the ends. Then, you can wrap it in tin foil and put it in the freezer or refrigerator.
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Introduction
- So you're looking at a big, beautiful bowl of spaghetti with tomato sauce and you wish you had something to put on the breadsticks in the middle of the table. If you use these tips, you'll know how to make garlic butter to kick up all kinds of food.
Ingredients
Equipment
- Mixing bowl
- Chef's knife
- Cutting board
- Spatula
Step 1: Garlic Butter Basics
- One of the best parts of cooking is that you can combine just about any ingredients you like according to taste. Here, however, is what you should start out with when you make your first batch of garlic butter.
- Butter is cream that has been heavily churned. As such, it's filled with delicious fats. You have options when it comes to what kind of butter you will use:Recipezaar: Kitchen Dictionary: butter
- Good, old-fashioned butter will be a little bit firmer and you'll have to warm it up for easy spreading.
- Margarine is made from vegetable oils and may or may not be a little healthier for you. It's also a little easier to spread on bread. MayoClinic: Butter vs. margarine: Which is better for my heart?
- Spreadable butter, such as Country Crock, is made from a mixture of oils and designed to be spreadable at room temperature. Country Crock: Spreadable Butter with Canola Oil
- Garlic is a relative of the onion. It's extremely aromatic and adds a unique tang to all kinds of foods. Garlic Central: Garlic Central
- You can purchase whole bulbs of fresh garlic and crush the cloves yourself, or you can purchase jars of pre-crushed garlic.
- In a pinch, you can even use garlic powder.
- Spices are used to tweak the flavor of foods. You can add whatever you like, but start with pepper and work from there.the epicenter: encyclopedia of spices
- Italian herb seasoning works well, as well as parsley, basil and sage.Cooks.com: Recipe - Garlic Butter
Step 2: Do Some Smooshing
- This is the fun, messy part! Garlic butter is a breeze to make because the preparation is so easy.
- Combine the ingredients you've chosen in a large bowl.
- Smoosh them together with a spatula. (You can use your hands if no one is looking!)
- Okay, okay. If you want to do it the same way a chef would, mix the ingredients in a food processor.Consumersearch.com: Food Processor Reviews
- As this requires no heat, making garlic butter is a great way to involve kids in cooking.FamilyFun.com: Teaching Kids to Cook
- Transfer your garlic butter into a serving dish or a fridge-friendly storage container for later use.About.com: Food Storage Containers: Freshness & Convenience
- This step is very important (and delicious). You should test the garlic butter you've made to make sure it tastes the way you want.
- At this point, you can add spices if you feel it's necessary.
Step 3: Garlic Butter Uses
- Now that you have a supply of garlic butter, it's time to put it to use.AllRecipes: Garlic Butter
- Bread is a classic way to enjoy garlic butter.
- Make garlic bread by spreading garlic butter onto sliced Italian bread and covering it with cheese before baking it in the oven.Simply Recipes: Garlic Bread Recipe
- Add your garlic butter to lobster or steak to make savory meats even richer. Cooks.com: Garlic Butter Lobster Tail
- Vegetables taste great when you add a little garlic butter.Food Network: Artichokes with Lemon-Garlic Butter
- Experiment by adding your garlic butter to different dishes to make your own creations.
Additional Garlic Butter Recipes
- Food Reference Website: Garlic Butter RecipeFood Reference Website: Garlic Butter Recipe
- This recipe invites you to include a little Tabasco sauce for a nice kick.
- Open Source Food: Shrimp in Garlic ButterOpen Source Food: Shrimp in Garlic Butter Recipe
- Not only would this taste good, but cooking this meal makes your kitchen smell heavenly.
- Grilled Vegetable Recipe: Roasted Garlic ButterGrilled Vegetable Recipe: Roasted Garlic Butter Recipe | Herb Butter Recipe
- Roasting the garlic complicates the flavor, appealing to discriminating palates.
- DVO: Japanese Garlic ButterDVO: Japanese Garlic Butter
- Add an Asian feel to your food with this recipe.
Conclusion
If you have garlic butter left, store it in a covered container in your refrigerator to keep it fresh. (You can even store it in the freezer if you like.)Bella Online: Garlic Butter Spread Recipe - Hot & Spicy Bring it out whenever you want to add some flavor to your meal.About this page
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