Cowboy butter – for steak and more! Recipe

Cowboy Butter is an easy flavoured butter that goes phenomenally nicely with steak. That is the instructed sauce for the Tomahawk Steak recipe I additionally shared right this moment, however it can go along with any meat, seafood and even greens!

Cowboy Butter is actually garlic butter dressed up with further flavours – smoky paprika, mustard, and a stable kick of chilli flakes. I’m not precisely certain the place the identify got here from, presumably as a result of somebody determined it conjured up pictures of cowboys cooking meat over open campfires then dipping it in Cowboy Butter??

Regardless of the purpose, I’m on board! It goes exceptionally nicely with steak, although actually, leftovers have been used for the whole lot from toast to chicken, toss with steamed child potatoes and melting by means of sizzling steamed white rice.

Right here’s what it is advisable make Cowboy Butter.

This recipe is loosely based mostly on this one from Chilli Pepper Insanity and varied iterations discovered on Reddit and YouTube, although to be trustworthy, we dialled again the variety of substances significantly as a result of we didn’t assume it made it any higher.

To be trustworthy, we most well-liked our easier model of Cowboy Butter with steak. Steak is already nice! The sauce needn’t have wild flavours.

(PS Once I say “our”, I credit score JB for this one as a result of he’s the one who tried varied variations to reach at this closing one. This was one other recipe spawned from my thoughts, became actuality by JB!)

It’s nearly so simple as simply mixing the whole lot in a bowl! I do know most recipes will simply name for uncooked garlic to be blended in however I love to do a mini sauté in somewhat butter as I feel it makes the garlic flavour a lot nicer.

Then let the melted butter cool a bit earlier than including into the bowl with the whole lot else and provides it a very good combine till mixed.

Softened (my choice) – I particularly designed this recipe so it’s a softened butter to be dolloped on steak (just like the very spectacular Tomahawk Steak I additionally shared right this moment!). I discover this melts extra evenly and coats the steak extra thickly than the options of utilizing it melted or making it into compound butter in log-form

Dipping sauce – Nevertheless, I do know many individuals are a fan of melting it to make use of as a dipping sauce for bites of steak! Simply soften gently in a microwave or in somewhat saucepan then serve it in a bowl to spoon over steak or dip items in.

To make a log type ie compound butter, simply roll the butter up in cling wrap to type a log and refrigerate till agency. Then reduce slices on an as-need foundation and place it on sizzling steak to soften.

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