10 Minute Herby Compound Butter

Hi hi! I am just popping in to share this herb compound butter recipe with you! I LOVE this butter - you can almost always find at least one kind of compound butter in my fridge at any time. This herb compound butter couldn't be more simple to make, is full of fresh herbs and lemon zest, and you can mix and match the flavours as you like depending on what you are using it for. Having something like a herb butter on hand to throw into things is such a quick and easy injection of flavour - I am obsessed with this and I know you will be too.

I almost always make a double of this herb butter recipe to keep on hand as it is SO good and really can go on everything. It is amazing on vegetables and potatoes, I use it to finish steaks, put under the skin of chicken, melted to use as the base of a pizza, and I often throw it in if I am cooking down onions or something to give an amazing boost of flavour. You really can't go wrong with a good herby compound butter

This Herb Compound Butter is a recipe in a series of compound butter recipes that I have - you can see them all in my flavoured butter recipes. They would make AMAZING homemade gifts.

Choosing your herbs for herb butter

One of my favourite things about this herb butter is you can really choose what flavour profile you want it to have. I am really lucky and have a huge herb garden, so I usually just choose what I feel like on the day and then go from there. Not all herbs go great together though so here are some quick tips:

• Choose one pungent herb. For more flavourful herbs that have a more dominant flavour like rosemary and sage, just go for one of those and supplement with more chill herbs like chives, thyme and parsley. For the butter I made in this recipe I used sage, parsley, thyme, and chives. You can sub rosemary for sage if you prefer a rosemary butter.
• Keep the herb all the same. If you want to just focus on one flavour, you can use only one kind of herb. An all chive butter is so delicious.
• Lemon if you like. I love adding lemon zest to my herb compound butter, but again, you do you here depending on what you feel like. Orange zest would also be delicious if you like that.
• Pepper works too. Some freshly ground black pepper will also be delicious in here if you like.
• You can never go wrong with garlic. Garlic and herb butter is so delicious. If you want to add in garlic I recommend starting with my garlic butter recipe as a base, and adding in herbs to it!

My fave way to store herb compound butter: The plastic wrap sausage

Not only is this a great way to store the herb butter in your fridge, it is super fun to make a sausage from your herb butter. Storing it this way means you can just unwrap it when you need to and slice off as much as you need. See the images below for how I get it into a sausage - don't be afraid to use your hands to get it into the shape you like! I prefer a fat sausage, if you like it thinner then do it that way too.