Homemade Compound Butter Flight (Four Ways)
Serves 8
45 mins prep
10 mins cook
30 mins Chill
85 mins total
This homemade compound butter recipe features four variations made from a single base: garlic crunch and tomato butter, dirty martini butter, brown butter with honey, and goat cheese fig butter. Presented as a butter flight, it’s designed for serving, gifting, or setting out with bread, steak, seafood, or vegetables.
Garlic Crunch and Tomato Butter
Dirty Martini Butter
Honey Browned Butter
Goat Cheese and Fig Butter
Garlic Crunch and Tomato Butter
• Add the garlic slices to a cold skillet and cover with olive oil. Place over medium heat and cook until lightly golden, stirring often to prevent burning. Transfer to a cutting board, finely chop and set aside.
• In the same pan, sauté the sun-dried tomatoes and tomato paste over medium heat for 3 minutes. Let cool completely.
• In a bowl, combine the softened butter, chopped garlic, tomato mixture, and salt. Mix until fully incorporated.
oz unsalted butter
5,6 garlic cloves
olive oil
cup sun-dried tomatoes
tbsp tomato paste
pinch salt
Dirty Martini Butter
• Stuff the olives with a small amount of blue cheese and slice thinly lengthwise..
• In a bowl, combine the softened butter, 2 tablespoons of blue cheese, scallions, half of the chives, vodka, olive brine, lemon zest, and salt. Mix until smooth.
oz unsalted butter
Castelvetrano olives
tbsp blue cheese
scallions
tbsp chives
tsp vodka
tsp olive brine
lemon
pinch salt
Honey Browned Butter
• Add the butter to a saucepan over medium heat and cook until deeply golden and nutty, stirring frequently.
• Remove from heat and pour into a bowl set over ice. Whisk until the butter thickens and becomes opaque.
• Mix in the honey and flaky salt to taste.
oz unsalted butter
tbsp honey
flaky salt
Goat Cheese and Fig Butter
• Mix salt to taste into the butter.
oz unsalted butter
pinch salt
Assemble the Butter Flight:
Garlic Crunch and Tomato Butter: Fill two molds with the garlic crunch and tomato butter.
Dirty Martini Butter: For this, we layer. Add a sprinkle of chives, about 3 slices of the stuffed olives and ⅓ of the butter. Repeat until the butter is gone.
Brown Butter and Honey Butter: Place a piece of honeycomb into two clean molds and pipe the brown butter and honey butter around it, filling completely.
pieces honeycomb
Goat Cheese and Fig Butter:
• Brush the sides of two cube molds lightly with butter and press edible flowers along the sides.
• Fill each halfway with butter. Using a spoon, push the butter up along the sides to create a small well in the center. Freeze for 10 minutes to set.
• Once set, layer goat cheese and then fig jam in the well until filled.
cup fig jam
edible pressed flowers
oz goat cheese
Clean the edges of each cube and refrigerate until fully set. Wrap and place in the gift box, if you would like.
