I mean, really, why have plain butter when you can make it delicious and amazing? Anytime you can add another layer of flavor, like a compound butter, you should! Use it on meat, use it on vegetables, sprouts, you can even use it on rice or pasta! Cowboy butter is part of a trend in seasoned butter that everyone is expecting. And for good reason! It's packed with lots of bold and flavorful spices like garlic, mustard, and smoked paprika and cayenne pepper.
Why our recipe?
- Barely any effort to make but packs big flavor.
- Boring vegetables and cheap cuts of steak that are marinated are good immediately.
- Keep it in your fridge or freezer for easy access to flavor.
Chef Cayt is our resident flavor expert and boy does he know how to bring it! It's his tried, tested and true Cowboy Butter that will make you fall in love with butter all over again. The ingredients are simple but need to be used in the right amount. We tested this cowboy butter recipe several ways for the perfect taste.
Material notes
- Salted Butter: Use good stuff and make sure to soften it. Don't sub for margarine. This is a butter recipe, baby. Embrace it!
- Garlic: You can use dried garlic, but fresh minced is best.
- Stone Ground Mustard: Has more bite and better texture than Dijon or yellow mustard.
- Worcestershire: Taste baby taste.
- Paprika: The smoked paprika brings a whole new level of depth, really giving it that cowboy kick.
- Stay red chilies: If you can't handle the heat, stay in the kitchen anyway and let it out.
Ways to use cowboy butter
It's not something you want to smear on bread, like regular Homemade butter. This is something that goes into the “rest butter” category. Here are some of our favorite suggestions for what to do with cowboy compound butter.
- Meat: Add a generous slice or dollop to warm Steaks, Pork chopsor Chicken breast meat. You can even toss some with chicken wings!
- Pasta: Melt the noodles on a plain plate. Or use it to add some Tex-Mex excitement to classic Italian dishes like garlic Shrimp language, Angel hair pastaor creamy Fettuccine Alfredo.
- Vegetables: Use in place of regular butter baked potato, potato fillingor Corn on the cob. It also adds great flavor to basic cooked vegetables Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, AsparagusAnd green beans. You can either add slices to the vegetables or melt and drizzle over the top.
- Melt: Make a sauce with butter and use it for dipping Breadsticks, Lobster or crab legsOr even a slice of pizza.
Storage instructions
Store in an airtight container and keep at room temperature for up to a week.
Keep in fridge Leftovers in a sealed container for up to 1 month.
freeze Wrap tightly in plastic wrap plus a layer of aluminum foil. Refrigerate for up to 3 months.
