Upgrade your cooking with this easy Parsley Butter recipe. With just a handful of ingredients, you can elevate regular butter to something new and exciting.
Parsley Butter is a simple compound butter recipe made with creamy unsalted butter, onions, garlic, and of course parsley.
Perfect for steaks, corn-on-the-cob, or to thicken and flavor a great sauce, this easy compound butter recipe can be used in lots of recipes
Traditionally you'll find compound butter formed into a log.
But I prefer to store parsley butter in these super versatile, inexpensive small mason jars. They are perfect for storing and serving.
Ingredients
- 1 stick BUTTER unsalted, softened
- ½ cup PARSLEY finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 1 clove GARLIC, minced
- 1 tablespoon LEMON ZEST
- ½ small ONION - shallots work well, too
- 1 teaspoon SALT
How To Make It
Make the butter has reached room temperature and is nice and soft. It makes blending a lot easier and you won't end up with unwanted curdled butter.
- Blend softened unsalted butter with onion, garlic, parsley, salt, and a bit of lemon zest in a food processor. Mix on high until the butter is nice and creamy.
Recipe Ideas
As I've mentioned there are lots of creative ways to use any compound butter in a multitude of ways, but especially parsley butter.
You'll find a very similar compound butter recipe in my Beef Stew recipe.
Just a tiny brag, about the Beef Stew. My husband loves my Stews and keeps asking for this recipe again and again. No problem, except that we're living through weeklong 90-degree weather at the moment. But I love making people happy with the food and isn't that what good home cooking is all about? End of brag. 🙂
Using Parsley Butter
- Steak and corn are the natural choices for parsley butter.
- Spice up your burgers with this butter.
- But you can also try sauteeing some fresh shrimp or if you're feeling fancy even scallops.
- Add the parsley butter to warm pasta just like you would with our Parsley Pesto.
- Spread a thin layer of the parsley compound butter on a slice of bread, Top with a slice of tomato, and maybe some slice of salami. And you've got yourself a nice little appetizer prepared in minutes.
- Top grilled chicken or seafood with parsley butter and you have an instant winner.
How Long Does Parsley Butter Last?
Properly store, you can easily keep parsley butter in a sealed mason jar container for 5 to 7 days. You can also freeze your herb butter for up to 6 months. But I prefer to make this recipe fresh and as needed.
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Parsley Butter
Ingredients
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in the food processor and process on high until creamy.
- Transfer the butter into a small mason jar. Use as desired.
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