Make herb butter yourself: The best herbs, ingredients and recipes

Making your own herb butter is a breeze! With DIY butter, there are no limits to your imagination. In comes what tastes good. We show you the best herbs and ingredients.

Let's face it: really good grilled baguette, steak and vegetables need herb butter. You can't do without it. What would the tender steak or the crispy fish be without butter?

The green herb mushrooms bring especially a lot of flavor to dishes and look really visually appealing at the same time.

Open the fridge quickly! Do you have butter at home and herbs on the balcony, on the window or in the garden? Very good! You don't need much more for your homemade herb butter.

Why you should make your own herb butter

Now you also save the way to the nearest store. If you like it refined, you can make your own herb butter anyway.

Delicious: spiced salt with lavender

With fresh herbs and exotic spices, it tastes better than the ready-made butter from the supermarket. One nourishes itself so also without artificial flavorings, dyes and preservatives. Gone are the days of 08/15 herb butter from the supermarket!

And at the same time you can also preserve your herbs for the winter.

Even if it's no longer barbecue season, homemade butter with fresh herbs tastes wonderful. You can then simply pour it over cooked vegetables or use it to make potatoes and rice more flavorful. Also totally delicious: herb butter on fish and meat.

Sounds good, right? Then let's start with making herb butter yourself!

So easy you can make herbal salt itself!

By the way, if you are interested in herbs, I can give you the book The Power of Herbs* recommend. It contains 350 recipes and ideas for herbs and wild herbs.

For example, how you can make herbal salt, herbal oil or creams from herbs. But also how you can turn weeds into recipes and experiences of over 30 herb women. I love this book!

What ingredients you need for homemade herb butter

Before we get right into it, let's take a look at the ingredients. After all, you should know what you're eating.

Most people know herb butter only in store-bought form. But you only need a few ingredients to make it yourself. I will now show you which ingredients end up in my butter and why I have chosen it.

The butter

Probably the most important ingredient is the butter itself. It ensures that the herbs stick together and that we can get the recipe into a nice shape.

I use classic butter from the supermarket. If you have a lactose intolerance or vegan diet, then this recipe also works with margarine.

Important: Take the butter out of the refrigerator an hour before preparation. This softens it, makes it easier to work with and mix with herbs.

Garlic

Yes, a little garlic is needed. This way, making herb butter yourself becomes a real experience. You have to know: I love garlic. But that's what everyone does anyway :).

If you don't have fresh garlic on hand, you can use dried. Last year I took an older garlic salt. This also worked wonderfully. But the most aromatic is fresh garlic.

If you are not a fan of the bulb, then I can recommend onion. Chop them up very small and stir them into the butter. The aroma of onion and/or garlic makes the butter a real treat.

Herbs

You can process pretty much all herbs from the garden. If you choose to eat consciously and healthily, you can also use Herbs for weight loss give into the recipe. I grow all the herbs myself in the garden and therefore always take what is in season.

Since the herbs ripen at such different times, I chop them up and freeze them. When I have enough of each variety, I prepare the butter.

If you do not have a garden, you can you herbs also on the balcony or pull on the Fesnterbrett. Very many varieties are very unpretentious to the soil.

You are equipped without a green thumb? Then buy freshly cut herbs at the weekly or farmers' market. Here you can certainly also taste if you want.

I have used these herbs

• Dill
• Chervil
• Oregano
• Chives
• Parsley

After the recipe, I'll introduce you to a few additional herbs you can use.

The visual eye-catcher: edible flowers

Yes, the eye eats with you. And because I make my own herb butter, especially for the barbecue, it should be a visual eye-catcher.

I love mixing fresh flowers from the garden into the herb butter.

Therefore, I cut the following flowers small:

• Marigold
• Cornflower
• Nasturtium

By the way, the flowers can also be frozen without problems, cut into small pieces.

With what recipe succeeds herb butter

Are you ready? Then you can start now. Before I tell you more: Put the butter out of the fridge. It needs to be very soft to work with. Let it warm up for at least 30 minutes.

It may also work in the microwave with the defrost function. However, I have not had good experiences with it so far. The butter melted despite low temperature and was then not usable.

If you have never made herb butter yourself, then here comes a detailed tutorial. If you have often made such and similar recipes and are just looking for inspiration, you can find a short version of the recipe at the end of the post.

Here comes the longer version with exact step-by-step instructions. So make your own herb butter is a breeze!

The recipe yields 250 grams or about 40 heaps of herb butter.

Ingredients

• 1 bunch mixed herbs
• 2 tablespoons edible flowers
• 1 clove garlic
• 250 g soft butter
• 1 tsp salt
• a pinch of pepper

Also: knife, board, bowl, wooden spoon and piping bag

1. prepare the herbs

Do not start preparing the herbs until the butter is soft.

I use chives, parsley, chervil, dill, oregano.

Wash the herbs and sort out dry ones. Shake them properly and pat dry so that the recipe becomes really intense.

Finely cut the herbs. The smaller, the more flavor they give off. Be sure to use a sharp knife for this. Otherwise you will press the essential oils into the board with the blunt blade and have less aroma in the butter.

When you cut open the greens, you have a handful of herbs in front of you. Unfortunately, I can't tell you in grams.

2. cut the flowers into small pieces

Now you cut the flowers small. I use marigolds (orange), nasturtiums (yellow to orange) and cornflowers (blue). They don't add any flavor to the recipe, but they are small visual fresheners.

Also for the flowers, the smaller cut, the better.

Put the flowers and the herbs together in a bowl.

3. the garlic

Peel the garlic clove and press it through a garlic press to get the most flavor in the butter. If you don't have a garlic press, cut the clove very small.

It is best to first cut into strips and then into cubes. Add the garlic to the herbs.

4. add the butter

In the last step you stir the softened butter into the herbs. I do this either with a wooden spoon or a normal spoon. If the butter is a bit harder, you can also chop it with a knife first and then whip it with a mixer.

Season with salt and pepper.

5. make the herb butter yourself

Create space in the refrigerator.

Now pour the entire mixture into a piping bag. Line a baking paper and press the butter through the form you have chosen.

Put the baking paper in the refrigerator, now the butter can harden. When it is firm, take it off the paper and freeze it. This will prevent it from sticking together later.

I think the heaps are very practical because you can always defrost exactly as much as you need at the time.

What you can refine homemade herb butter with

You're not quite convinced yet and want to refine the herb butter? No problem. Try it with these ingredients:

• Onion
• Garlic
• Chili powder or chili oil
• Insider tip: lemon peel, orange peel
• Herbs of all kinds
• Edible flowers: sunflower, violet, Rose petals*, Lavender flowers*
• Curry powder, paprika powder
• Olives or capers

But you can also make your own herb butter with ginger, wild garlic, mint, salmon, anchovies, mustard, red wine, pesto, wasabi, fried onion, cumin, paprika, peanuts or curry powder.

Herbs that are particularly tasty: parsley, chives, dill, rosemary, thyme, sage, chervil, basil, lavender, cress, oregano, savory.

You can also process the flowers of the herbs. For example, chives and rosemary bloom beautifully purple. But there are also edible flowers to buy at the market. Take a look around. It's really worth it :)

How to make herb butter in stock

If you have a lot of fresh herbs at home, you can also make the butter in larger quantities.

Here you have two simple options. Either you form the butter into a roll with cling film. Twist the ends of the foil tightly. Put it in the refrigerator. Later you can easily cut slices from it.

Or you can put your herb butter mixture into a piping bag and make little blobs. Both are easy. The optics decides. You have the choice :)

Now put it in the refrigerator. When the butter is firm, cut it into small pieces. Then put the herb butter in the freezer.

So you can easily portion your butter and always defrost as much as you need. Perfect! :)

Yummy: Fiery hot DIY chili oil!

With what dishes the spiced butter goes

If you immediately think of barbecue, you're not wrong. But you can add that certain something to many more dishes. I add the butter to rice, pasta, potatoes, carrots, kohlrabi, zucchini.

It also goes well with meat or simply as a spread on bread. I also find it very tasty with green beans. Just give it a try. I could eat it every day.

Why DIY herb butter is a beautiful gift

You are invited to a barbecue at friends? That's great! Then you already have your own souvenir.

I'm sure not many of your friends make their own herb butter. That gives you a big plus and saves you from asking, "What the heck am I going to bring?"

But make sure it is always well cooled, otherwise it will liquefy and your souvenir will dissolve into thin air :)

And here, as promised, the short version of the recipe, for those who are in a hurry or are already professionals in making spiced butter.

 

Our conclusion

Herb butter is easy to make with little effort. It is a great way to enjoy fresh herbs for a longer time. Even after the fall grilling season, the butter goes well with fish, vegetables and side dishes of all kinds. Thumbs up for the DIY herb butter :)

Good luck!

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