How To make Flavoured Butter

Making your own flavoured butters to keep in the fridge will give you access to a delicious flavour bomb to add quickly to any meal. Learn how to make flavoured butter here and you will always want some in the fridge to add to your steak or vegetables. We love to have these made up and in the freezer and we can cut some off the butter log and add to our protein or steamed vegetables for a quick way to add flavour.

How to make Flavoured Butter

The best thing is that not only are you adding flavour but fat as well, which will help keep you full for longer. We love to use these flavoured butters on our steak and on steamed vegetables. Knowing how to make flavoured butter is a very easy skill to learn and is instant flavour for your meals.

The best part is that flavoured butter is completely customisable, so you can choose any flavour combinations you like! Whether you like the bright flavours of fresh herbs and lemon or the stronger flavours of garlic and chilli, you can make your flavoured butter whatever you like.

Butter and keto

When choosing a butter to make your homemade flavoured butter, you want to make sure you choose a good quality option that is grass-fed. This just means the cows that produced the milk that was turned into butter were fed their traditional diet of grass. Rather than cows that are grain fed in more industrialised farming.

Not only does grass fed butter taste better it is also better for you, just like grass fed beef is. Grass fed butter has a better omega 3-omega 6 ratio and more fat-soluble vitamins like vitamin A, D, E & K2 when compared to grain fed butter.

Here are some of our preferred butter options:

• Westgold
• Lewis Road Creamery
• Mainland Organic

Fats and oils

The type and quality of the fats you consume on a low carb diet are important for good health and wellbeing. We try to avoid highly processed polyunsaturated vegetable oils that are high in omega 6 like soybean oil, canola oil, cottonseed oil, sun flower oil, safflower oil etc. These oils are very inflammatory on our bodies.

We prefer to focus on consuming natural monounsaturated fats that are high in omega 3 as well as saturated fats, which are much less inflammatory.

The fats we choose to cook with and consume on a regular basis are;

• Grass fed butter or ghee
• Avocado oil
• Olive oil
• Coconut oil
• Lard or tallow

Flavour combinations

• Lemon and herb – 1 tablespoon each of fresh chives and parsley leaves, chopped and the zest of one lemon.
• Roasted garlic & rosemary – 2 cloves of roasted garlic and 1 teaspoon of chopped fresh rosemary leaves.
• Smoky Mexican – 1 tablespoon chopped fresh coriander leaves, 2 teaspoons of smoked paprika, chopped pickled jalapeños (amount to your liking), optional additional chilli powder.
• Cinnamon and vanilla extract
• Whatever combination you like!

Tips

• This flavoured butter can be stored in the fridge or freezer, and you can slice off a serve as needed.
• We like to store them in rolls wrapped in plastic wrap in the freezer, but you could also freeze it in ice cube trays or small moulds and then pop out the portions into a silicon zip lock bag.

Suggestions

• On top of any grilled meat, fish or chicken. It really is a great way to add flavour to any protein.
• Use your flavoured butter as a base to sauté your greens or make a sauce.
• Serve on top of steamed greens or other veggies.
• Cook your scrambled eggs with it for extra flavour.

Equipment

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You may need –

• Plastic wrap (we like to store ours in the freezer wrapped in plastic wrap)

Flavoured butters

Making your own flavoured butter at home is a great way to have some flavour packed fat on hand for quick and delicious meals. One of these delicious butters can turn a simple old meal of steak a broccoli into a flavour packed meal. We especially like to serve the lemon & herb combination with a piece of grilled fish, or the roasted garlic and rosemary flavour with s juicy steak. Give this recipe a go today!

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