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.

Homemade Flavoured Butter Ingredients

Full-fat cream is all that’s needed for homemade butter. You can flavour it with whatever you like. I will share my favour options below.

Homemade Flavoured Butter Ingredients List

• 1 and 1/2 litres (6.5 cups) of whipping cream
• 1 small red onion
• 1 red chili
• 3 cloves fresh garlic
• 2 tablespoons of chopped fresh chives
• 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil
• 2 tablespoons sun-dried tomatoes in oil
• 2 tablespoons of grated parmesan
• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 2 tablespoons icing sugar
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon

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Making the Butter for 5 Homemade Flavoured Butters

Making butter is super easy.

• Pour 1 and a 1/2 litres (6.5 cups) of whipping the cream into a large bowl.
• Using a hand whisk (hand held or electric), whip the cream.
• Do not stop once the cream starts to thicken up. Instead keep whipping until the butter separates from the buttermilk.

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

Separating the Butter from the Buttermilk

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 flavouring the butter, we need it to be soft, so we can easily mix in our flavours.
• 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.

• Allow all of the liquid (buttermilk) drip away.
• You will be left with only butter in the cheesecloth.
• Now that you have butter, we can flavour it to our liking. I will show you 5 of my favourites here – 3 savoury and 2 sweet flavours.

Making the 5 Homemade Flavoured Butters

Let’s start by dividing the homemade butter into 5 equal parts. The best way to divide the butter into 5 equal parts is by rolling the butter into a log and then dividing it equally.

1- Caramelized Onion and Red Chili

This is my favorite flavored homemade butter. Let’s get the flavouring happening.

• Finely chop 1 red onion.
• In a medium sized pan heat 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
• Add the onion to the pan and cook the onion until it browns and gets that delicious caramelized flavour.
• Remove the onion from the pan and place it in a bowl and allow it to cool down completely.
• Seed and finely chop 1 red chili.
• Once the onion has cooled completely, take 1 portion of the butter and add the onion and the red chili to it.
• Add salt and pepper to taste (about 1/4 teaspoon each).
• Mix everything well.
• Once mixed, put the flavoured butter into an airtight container or into plastic foil and place it in the fridge.
• Let the butter cool down completely before enjoying it.

2- Garlic and Chive Butter

Let’s get the 2nd flavour going.

• Finely chop 3 cloves of garlic.
• Heat 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil in a medium sized pan.
• Cook the garlic until browns and gets that delicious caramelized smell.
• Allow the garlic to cool down completely.
• While the garlic is cooling down, finely chop about 2 tablespoons 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.
• Once mixed, put the flavoured butter into an airtight container or into plastic foil and place it in the fridge.
• Let the butter cool down completely before enjoying it.

3- Sun-Dried Tomato and Parmesan Butter

Time to make the 3rd savoury flavoured butter.

• Finely chop about 2 tablespoons of store-bought sun-dried tomatoes and add them to a bowl. I use the sun-dried tomatoes that come in a jar with oil.
• To the tomatoes add about 2 tablespoon of grated 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.
• Once mixed, put the flavoured butter into an airtight container or into plastic foil and place it in the fridge.
• Let the butter cool down completely before enjoying it.

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 chocolatey.

• Add 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder and 2 tablespoons of icing sugar to a bowl.
• To the bowl, add 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.
• Once you taste this chocolate butter, you will forget about chocolate nut butters.

5- Cinnamon Sugar

Who doesn’t love sweet cinnamon flavour? Let’s make the second sweet homemade flavoured butter.

• Add 2 tablespoons of brown sugar and 1 tablespoon of ground cinnamon to a bowl.
• Add the last and final portion of the butter to the bowl.
• Mix everything well so the cinnamon and sugar are evenly distributed and the butter takes on the cinnamon colour.
• 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.

• Try making garlic bread with the garlic and chive homemade butter.
• Add some of the caramelized onion butter on top of any curry.
• Make pan-fried fish with sun-dried tomato butter.
• Enjoy the cinnamon butter on a toasted focaccia or bagel for a delicious dessert.
• The options are limitless.

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