5 Homemade Flavoured Butters

5 homemade flavoured butters are perfect for so many recipes. Growing up in Kenya, we would get farm-fresh milk delivered right to our door. Since it was unpasteurized milk, mom would boil it right away and let it cool down before placing it in the fridge. Once it started to cool we could lift off a thick layer of fresh cream from the top of the pot and we would make fresh butter every week.

I make fresh butter at home from time to time, but I have found various recipes that I use to flavor the butter. Here I am going to present to you 5 of my favorite. Once you make butter at home yourself, and flavor it yourself, you will never go back to buying store-bought butter.

Making the Butter for 5 Homemade Flavoured Butters

Making butter is super easy. All you need is 1 and 1/2 liters of whipping cream and like magic, you can make it into about 2 and 1/2 cups of butter. To make homemade butter, start whipping the cream, and once the cream starts to thicken up, keep going. Generally, we whip cream to use for desserts or baking, but for this recipe, you need to keep whipping until the butter separates from the buttermilk.

Continue whipping the cream until the color changes from a bright white to a yellowish color. You will feel the liquid start to collect at the bottom of your bowl.

Once your home butter has been “churned”, you need to ensure that all of the buttermilk is separated from the butter before you start to flavor it. The easiest method to separate butter from buttermilk is to put the bowl into the fridge and let it cool down completely. That will make it easy to separate them. But since we are flavoring the butter, we need it to be soft, so we can easily mix in our flavors.

So in order to separate your homemade butter from the buttermilk, line another bowl or container with a cheesecloth and pour all of the contents of the mixing bowl into the cheesecloth. This will allow us to collect all of the butter in the cheesecloth and easily separate the buttermilk.

Now that you have butter, you can use it unsalted for baking, salt it and use it for buttering your toast or cooking. Make ghee out of it. However, now we are ready to make flavored homemade butter. My recipes consist of 3 savoury and 2 sweet kinds of butter.

Making the 5 Homemade Flavoured Butters

Divide your homemade butter into 5 equal parts. You can make it into a log or you can make a ball and divide it. Whatever way works best for you.

1- Caramelized Onion and Red Chili

This is my favorite flavored homemade butter. Finely chop one red onion and in a pan heat 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Cook the onion until it is brown and gets that delicious caramelized look. Let the onions cool down completely before you add them to the butter. If you add hot onions, the butter will melt completely and we do not want to do that. While the onions are cooling down, seed and finely chop the red chili.

Once the onions have cooled completely, add the onions and the red chili to the first portion of the butter. Add salt and pepper to taste and mix everything well. Put the caramelized onion and red chili butter into an airtight container and place it in the fridge. Let the butter cool down completely before enjoying it.

2- Garlic and Chive Butter

Finely chop 3 cloves of garlic and in a pan heat 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil. Cook the garlic until it’s brown and gets that delicious caramelized look. While the garlic is cooling down, finely chop about 2 tablespoons worth of fresh chives. Once the garlic has cooled completely, add the garlic and the chives to the second portion of the butter. Add salt and pepper to taste and mix everything well.

3- Sun-Dried Tomato and Parmesan Butter

Finely chop about 2 tablespoons worth of store-bought sun-dried tomatoes. I use the sun-dried tomatoes that come in a jar with oil. Add the tomatoes and about 1 tablespoon of parmesan to a third portion of the butter. Add pepper to taste and mix everything well. I do not add salt to this butter, since the sun-dried tomatoes are already salty.

Now we can move on to the 2 sweet varieties. I make a chocolate and a cinnamon sugar version.

4 – Chocolate Butter

I like my butter really chocolaty. Add 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder and 2 tablespoons of icing sugar to another portion of the homemade butter. Mix everything well and put the butter into an airtight container and place it in the fridge to allow it to cool completely.

5- Cinnamon Sugar

This is my second favorite type of flavored butter. Add 2 tablespoons of brown sugar and 1 tablespoon of ground cinnamon to the final portion of the butter. Mix everything well and put the butter into an airtight container and place it in the fridge to allow it to cool completely.

Serving Suggestions for My 5 Homemade Flavoured Butters

These kinds of butter can be enjoyed with a variety of things. They are perfect for a keto diet. Try making garlic bread with the garlic and chive homemade butter. Or try adding some of the caramelized onion butter on top of any curry. Try making pan-fried fish with sun-dried tomato butter. Try putting the cinnamon butter on lukewarm plain focaccia for a delicious dessert. The options are limitless.

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