Garlic ginger butter

This garlic ginger butter is a spiced butter that is extremely good and super easy to make.

A flavorsome garlic compound butter with added herbs and spices. The result is a well balanced tasty butter perfect for adding flavor to your dishes. For cold dishes serve this butter melted as an excellent dipping sauce.

For hot dishes, a piece of cold compound garlic herb butter can be placed on top of cooked meat, fish, seafood or grilled vegetables before serving it and let it slowly melt.

In this recipe your garden really gets brought into life. When you have excess herbs, ginger and chili's growing in your garden, making a batch of this amazing ginger garlic butter is always a good idea! It's the perfect flavor enhancer and the uses for it is endless! Read more about homegrown food here

This garlic herb compound butter is easy to make and can be frozen for later use.

It pairs well with cooked seafood and my Coconut rice with coconut cream recipe on this site.

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• Ingredients for garlic ginger spiced butter
• How to make spiced butter
• Variations to this recipe
• Serving suggestion
• Equipment
• Storage
• Related
• Pairing

Ingredients for garlic ginger spiced butter

• Butter - salted
• Fresh ginger - finely chopped or grated
• garlic - finely chopped or grated
• parsley - finely chopped
• chives - finely chopped
• chili - finely chopped
• curry powder
• salt

See recipe card for quantities.

How to make spiced butter

This recipe for garlic herb butter is super easy to make and ready in just a few minutes.

• Warm the butter until soft but not melted.
• Add all the other ingredients and mix well.
• Check seasoning and adjust if needed.

• If you serving it melted as a dipping butter then warm it until fully melted then serve.

• If you like to serve it as a solid butter on top of cooked meat or fish then you can simply spoon a dollop on top of your meat, fish or veggies and let it slowly melt or

• you can roll the butter up in cling wrap to a cylinder shape and refrigerate or freeze then cut slices to put on top of your meat, fish or veggies and then serve.

Variations to this recipe

• Add lemon or lime if you like to zest it up.
• Add other herbs like oregano or cilantro

Serving suggestion

This garlic herb butter recipe is perfect served with:

• most cooked seafood. Especially prawns, crabs and crayfish
• with cooked fish
• as a seafood platter dipping sauce
• any grilled or pan-fried meat
• grilled vegetables
• corn on the cob

Equipment

Mixing bowl

whisk

chopping board

knife

Storage

This spicy compound butter can be prepared in advance. It keeps well covered up in the fridge for 2-3 weeks and even longer in the freezer.

Roll the butter up in cling wrap to a cylinder shape and freeze for 3-4 months

Related

Looking for other sauce recipes? Try these:

Sour cream lemon and herb dressing

Almondine sauce (Amandine)

Chimichurri sauce red

Applesauce compote

Pairing

These are my favorite foods to serve with this ginger garlic butter:

• Cooked prawns and crabs
• coconut rice with coconut cream
• pan fried or grilled fish
• any cooked meat
• grilled or steamed vegetables

This ginger garlic butter is aromatic and delicious served with just about any meat, fish, seafood or grilled vegetables.

Have you tried this recipe? What is your favorite thing to serve with this butter? Leave me a comment below. I love to hear from you!