Homemade Garlic Butter feels super luxurious, but it is quick and easy to make at home! My easy garlic butter recipe has a sneaky trick: precooking some of the garlic in the butter, which lets you pack as much garlic flavour into the butter without an overwhelming raw garlic taste. Use this homemade garlic butter for bread, steak, potatoes - whatever takes your fancy. It feels like such a treat to have in the fridge!
Hi hi! I am just popping in to share the recipe for this super easy and amazingly delicious garlic butter with you! I almost always have a roll of this garlic butter in my fridge - we use it for making garlic bread, spreading on warm bread, on toast under eggs, as a base for pizza, the list is endless! One of my favourite ways to use it is to melt a little to brush over warm parker house rolls for a soft and squishy bread situation.
Homemade Garlic Butter also makes a great gift - I love to take a roll with me if we are going somewhere for dinner and tucking it into their fridge for a little surprise for later. This is one of those recipes that seems really simple, but making your own garlic butter is a hundred times better than anything you'll get store bought.
This Garlic 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.
This Garlic Butter Recipe is different
I looked at a lot of garlic butter recipes during recipe testing and have been making this for years now, and have fine tuned this garlic butter recipe into something that is just SO good. I love a super garlicky butter - if you're going to do it you might as well do it properly.
However, raw garlic can be super intense in taste. I got around this by using the technique I use in my Garlic Knot recipe and cooking most of the garlic in a little of the butter, cooling it down, and then mixing it into the remainder of the softened butter with a little raw garlic so you still get the taste. The result is a super intense garlic flavour that isn't too 'spicy' from the raw garlic. It's a game changer.
Optional Extras - you do you here!
I usually keep it simple and just use softened salted butter, garlic, and salt in my garlic butter recipe - I have added some chives here for colour too but they aren't necessary. You can also add in lemon zest, freshly ground black pepper, other herbs of your choice - have a play around with what you like!
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Answers to your baking questions
Over the years, many of you have asked me questions about:
- baking in grams
- adjusting oven temperatures
- what kind of salt to use
- and many more!
I've curated and answered them all for your easy reference in this frequently asked questions post!
Extra Garlicky Garlic Butter
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 8 servings 1x
- Category: Butter
- Method: No-bake
- Cuisine: American
Description
Homemade Garlic Butter feels super luxurious, but it is quick and easy to make at home! My easy garlic butter recipe has a sneaky trick: precooking some of the garlic in the butter, which lets you pack as much garlic flavour into the butter without an overwhelming raw garlic taste. Use this homemade garlic butter for bread, steak, potatoes - whatever takes your fancy. It feels like such a treat to have in the fridge!
Ingredients
'Cooked' garlic portion
- 30g salted butter, cold from the fridge is fine
- 30g garlic, freshly crushed or grated on a microplane
Garlic Butter
- 150 salted butter, softened
- 5g garlic, freshly crushed or grated on a microplane
- Big pinch of flaky sea salt (optional but I love the salt flakes)
- Chopped herbs such as chives to taste, optional
Instructions
- Place the 30g measure of butter in a very small saucepan. Add the 30g measure of garlic, and cook, stirring frequently, over low to medium heat, until the butter melts and the mixture begins to bubble slightly, 1-2 minutes. You do not want this mixture to brown. Remove from the heat and allow to cool to room temperature - if you need to speed this up you can spread it onto a plate.
- Place the 150g measure of butter, 5g measure of garlic and salt into a medium bowl. Add the cooled garlic and butter mixture and mix to combine with a spatula.
- Store in an airtight container in the fridge or spread onto a piece of plastic wrap and roll up into a sausage, twisting the plastic wrap at the ends.
- Store in the fridge for up to 3 weeks or freeze for a few months.
Notes
No surprises here but the main flavour of this is garlic, so you want to use fresh garlic - this is not the place to use the stuff from the jar. Fresh is the only way here! I either use my garlic press or grate it on a microplane. My favourite garlic press is called the garject and you can put garlic in it with the peel on which is so helpful.
If you want just a regular herb butter without the garlic, use my herb compound butter recipe.
Comments
Morgan French says
The best F#*k’n garlic butter you will ever EVER have. 10/10 no notes. Love your work
MJ says
10/10 would recommend this recipe. It’s easy, comes together quick and is super flavorful. I have this on sourdough toast with either honey or preserves (plum is my current favorite) and it’s amazing. It also makes such a lovely gift when paired with a quality loaf of bread.
Lana Kulina says
The best recipe I tried so far! My hyper fixation meal right now is toast with this butter, absolutely amazing 🤩
Julie G says
I’m obsessed with this recipe and concept! I make a XLARGE portion of the garlic then store to use for roasted garlic hit in almost everything I cook then use some to make the garlic bread, great gift when I visit friends!
Thanks for everything you do, especially using grams, who wants to wash measuring cups and spoons when you can just tare a scale?
mungojulia says
Rating for the Garject shout out, I previously hated all garlic tools. Helps immensely with your daily 5-10 servings.
Also this butter is excellent for all garlic bread based emergencies.
Lori -SouthernGirlEats says
I love garlic butter and always looking for new ways to use it and I haven’t tried this method and it sounds fab. Thank you! Can’t wait to try it 🥰