Garlic Butter Recipe

Garlic butter can be a great addition to any normal recipe. The first thing that comes to your mind when one says garlic butter is probably garlic bread! But garlic butter can be used to garnish a range of recipes along with those which use garlic bread as an essential part of it. Garlic butter can lend a somewhat spicy taste to the butter and hence give your dish a slightly different taste. It can be a great alternative to normal bread and butter, which you normally eat for breakfast! So as you can see garlic butter has a lot of uses. But can you make garlic butter at home? Of course you can! Here's how to make garlic butter with this really great and easy garlic butter recipe.

Easy Garlic Butter Recipe

Ingredients

• ½ cup Butter
• 1 or 2 cloves of garlic
• Italian Seasoning (optional)
• Parmesan Cheese (optional)

Preparation

Step #1
Leave the butter in the heat for some time till it softens. It is important to soften butter beforehand as it becomes easier to make the garlic butter recipe with soft butter.

Step #2
The first step is to peel the garlic. Peel the papery cover off the cloves of garlic. Cut a tiny portion of the ends off. Now chop the garlic well.

Step #3
Take the butter into a stirring bowl. Add the chopped garlic to it. Mix the two well. Grate the Parmesan cheese and add the Italian seasoning over the mix and stir well again. It is important that the butter mixes well and evenly with the rest of the ingredients well to create a more uniform taste. It is important that garlic butter has uniform taste, otherwise it well taste more garlicky sometimes and less garlicky at other times.

Roasted Garlic Butter Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 bulb garlic
• Softened butter
• Italian Seasoning

Preparation

This is a slightly different recipe from the standard garlic butter recipe which involves roasting the garlic beforehand. The first step here is to preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Wrap the garlic bulb in an aluminum foil and bake the garlic for about 20 minutes. After baking the garlic, remove it from the aluminum foil and pull out all the individual cloves and follow the same steps mentioned above.

So, this was all about the garlic butter recipe. Garlic butter, like I said can be used to 'spice up' a lot of food items. But mind you, garlic butter may not be the healthiest thing to go with your bread. Calories in butter are too many for you to have if you're on a diet. But having said that, you could try the garlic butter recipe with one of those light butters so that the calorie count is substantially reduced! All you need is a slight shift in the recipe, use light butter instead of normal butter, and there you have your light garlic butter recipe. Hope, this was helpful.