How To Make Herbed Butter Easy Delicious And Fancy

This glorious Herbed Butter gives that special touch to a meal. I especially like to use it when serving a fancy Sunday dinner or holiday meal. It looks and tastes like you’ve spent a little extra time to make the meal a memorable one, but really, it’s super easy to make! Spread it on hot rolls, or drop a pat of this butter on vegetables, potatoes, sandwiches, or meat dishes. And if you change up the combination of herbs, the sky’s the limit with flavors and ways to use this recipe. So yummy!

Ingredients in Herbed Butter

This super fancy looking butter comes together with just a few ingredients. It really couldn’t be easier. Use a hand mixer to combine all the glorious flavors together. Here’s what you need:

Butter – try to use unsalted butter for this recipe. It keeps the sodium levels down, which you won’t need anyway because the herbs add so much flavor. Salt can release too much moisture in the fresh herbs as well, so this recipe just does better with unsalted butter. Make sure the butter is at ROOM TEMPERATURE before starting this butter mixture. Fresh parsley – chopped very finely. Green onion – only use the white portion for this recipe. Fresh thyme leaves – remove the leaves from the stem before chopping. Black pepper – just a dash or two.

Making Herbed Butter Into Shapes

My favorite thing to do when I have company or a special dinner coming up is to use a butter or cheese mold and make it into fun shapes. I’ve used a candy mold for the herbed butter pictured above. You can also use a piping bag and decorating tip to make butter “roses” or other decorative shapes on a cookie sheet lined with wax paper. Freeze overnight, then place in a plastic freezer bag and pull them out whenever you want to use them. You can also slice a log of butter and keep the individual slices in the freezer.

More Flavored Butter Ideas

I love the combination of parsley, onion, and thyme in this savory butter recipe, but there are endless combinations of herbs and spices that you can use to suit your taste. Use your imagination to come up with your own special recipe. Try any combination of these herbs:

Fresh rosemary Mint Chive Turmeric Lemongrass Fresh basil Sage Cilantro Cumin Tarragon Lemon or Lime Zest

What to Serve with Herbed Butter

This fragrant butter is scrumptious on veggies! Melt it on our Perfect Corn on the Cob, our Oven Roasted Green Beans, our Sweet Sautéed Asparagus, zucchini, squash, our Green Peas, broccoli, or any other vegetable to give it an extra boost of flavor. It is also great to use when cooking any kind of meat. Try it on our Herb Crusted Salmon, our Parmesan Crusted Herb Baked Mahi Mahi, our Instant Pot Grilled Chicken, or our savory New York Steaks. And let’s not forget bread! Use it in place of garlic butter on hot and toasty French bread, on our Irish Soda Bread, or our Homemade Crescent Rolls. Brush it onto rolls right when you pull them out of the oven. So many possibilities!