Homemade Flavoured Butter

Nowadays, modern family find very little time at home as most of the time they are tied down at work. Thus, many are looking for quick fix without losing the quality of food and life. One of the things you can consider is to prepare flavouring butter.

You can flavour butter with different herbs and spices as spread or as marinade for barbeque foods on top of meats, fish or vegetables and leave it to melt. Flavoured butters can be made in advance and it can be kept for up to 1 week when chilled and 2 months when frozen, unlike some marinade and paste that can only keep for up to 3 days.

In this post, I will share with you two types of butter marinade.

For Seafood: (~500g fillet, prawns or scallops)

Mix 125g unsalted butter, 1 tsp of lemon juice, 2 finely chopped shallots, pinched of salt and black pepper. Chill the mixture in grease proof paper and form a regular block or cylindrical shape. When it is hardened, cut them up into slices.

For chicken or baked potato: (~1kg)

Mix 125g unsalted butter, 1 tbsp french mustard, 2 finely chopped garlic cloves, 2 tbsp chopped rosemary. Season with salt and black pepper. Chill the mixture in the same way into a regular block and slice them for use.