Garlic Chive Butter

This garlic chive butter is a fresh and delicious compound butter! It will add amazing flavor to any dish you add it to!

With just 3 ingredients, 5 minutes of preparation time, and an hour to chill, you’ll be amazed at how flavorful this garlic chive butter is! You can use this in place of butter for any number of dishes. Enjoy!

Let’s talk about compound butter!

Compound butter is butter that is combined with herbs, spices, and often additional ingredients to create a delicious butter. You can make compound butters with fresh herbs, or you can make them with dried. Compound butters are made with a wide variety of different herbs and spices. You can even make yours using spice blends such as lemon pepper seasoning and everything bagel seasoning, just to name a couple. You can also add other ingredients to compound butter including cheese, horseradish, garlic, mustard, and sun-dried tomatoes. And there are numerous others. These are savory options, but you can also make sweet compound butters. You make these butters by adding things such as lemon or lime juice or zest, chopped berries, and keto sugar. For this compound butter, we combine salted butter with fresh chopped chives and garlic powder. If you’d like, you can use unsalted butter and add salt to taste.

Is this garlic chive butter difficult to make?

This compound butter is quick and easy to make. You’ll want to start with softened butter to help ensure all ingredients will be evenly distributed throughout the butter. You have a couple great options for making this compound butter. You can add all your ingredients to a mixing bowl and use an electric mixer to beat all ingredients together. Alternately, you can use a soft spatula to stir ingredients together. You’ll want to mix your ingredients until your chives are evenly distributed in your butter. At this point, you can cover your butter and refrigerate it for an hour or even longer. If you’d like, you can place your butter onto plastic wrap or parchment paper, roll it and shape into a log shape. Once refrigerated, this will allow you to be able to cut it into cute round slices for serving.

What are some ways I can serve this garlic chive butter?

You have so many awesome low carb options for serving this butter! It can be used in place of butter in almost any savory dish. You can use it to make or to top mashed cauliflower, mashed kohlrabi, or mashed turnips. Another terrific way to serve this butter is to top your steak with some or to saute chicken, fish, or shrimp in it. You can fry or scramble eggs, or even make omelets using this butter. A delicious option for serving this garlic chive butter is to cook vegetables, then toss them in this butter. Some great keto vegetable options include asparagus, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, green beans, and spinach. It also works great in cabbage dishes. You can also make chaffles or keto English muffins and spread some of this delicious butter on them.

Here are a few of our favorite vegetable dishes that would taste great topped with this compound butter!

Christmas Keto Green Beans with Prosciutto

Low Carb Roasted Radishes

Low Carb Sauteed Rutabaga

Roasted Kohlrabi

Helpful Hints:

*You’ll want your butter softened before using.

*You can refrigerate your butter in the mixing bowl. You can also place your butter onto plastic wrap or parchment paper, roll it and shape in into a log if you’d like to be able to slice it into rounds for serving.

Main Kitchen Equipment and Utensils:

• Medium mixing bowl
• Measuring spoons

Splash of Encouragement:

***For the word of the LORD is right, And all His work is done in truth. Psalm 33:4***