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.
What You’ll Need
- 1 stick BUTTER unsalted, softened
- 1/2 cup PARSELY finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 1 clove(s) GARLIC, minced
- 1 tablespoon LEMON ZEST
- 1/2 small ONION – shallots work well, too
- 1 teaspoon SALT
How To Make It
Before adding the ingredients into the blender make sure that 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 in 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 food and isn’t that what good home cooking is all about? End of brag. 🙂
Some more ideas what to do with 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 butter to warm spaghetti pasta, similarly as you might with 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 a piece of freshly 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.
Hungry For More?
- Spaetzle
- Knödel – German Bacon Bread Dumplings
- Creamy Cucumber Salad
- Red Cabbage
- Roasted Salmon
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Parsley Butter
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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