Best Butter Recipes

Because everything is better with butter, SAVEUR magazine presents its best butter recipes for pairing with food. Try dunking an artichoke leaf in melted butter; pairing salami and butter on a baguette; tossing spaghetti with butter, grated parmigiano-reggiano, and black pepper; or sauteeing mushrooms in butter. Delicious!

WATCH: How to Make Clarified Butter

Sage Brown Butter
Sage Brown Butter

Sage Brown Butter

Radish and Butter Sandwich
Radish and Butter Sandwich

It’s très French to pair crisp, spicy radishes with softened, salted butter; a thin-sliced baguette is the perfect vehicle. Get the recipe for Radish and Butter Sandwich »

Nancy Silverton's Butter Biscuit recipe
Butter-Basted Eggs
Butter-Basted Eggs

Crispy-bottomed fried eggs make an ideal breakfast. Get the recipe for Butter-Basted Eggs »

Brown Butter Pasta
Brown Butter Pasta

Hamilton gave us her recipe for this delicious pasta, which is tossed in brown butter and pine nuts, then topped with sunny-side-up eggs. See the recipe for Brown Butter Pasta »

Chez Panisse Garlic Butter

Set atop a sizzling steak, this restaurant classic melts luxuriously onto the meat. The recipe is adapted from Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse Cooking (Random House, 1988). Get the recipe for Chez Panisse Garlic Butter »

Julia Child's Garlic Mashed Potato recipe
Julia Child's Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Thirty cloves of garlic go into this creamy side dish, adapted from Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking: Volume 1 (Alfred A. Knopf, 1961). The cloves are first blanched whole, which enhances their sweetness, then used to make a rich béchamel sauce that’s stirred into mashed potatoes with cream and parsley. Get the recipe for Julia Child’s Garlic Mashed Potatoes »

The croissant’s perfection is twofold: an interior of infinitely spiraling paper-thin layers and a shatteringly flaky crust.

Grilled Lobster with Garlic-Parsley Butter
Grilled Lobster with Garlic-Parsley Butter

Grilled Lobster with Garlic-Parsley Butter

Nancy Silverton's Butter Biscuit recipe
MATT TAYLOR-GROSS
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Best Butter Recipes

Because everything is better with butter, SAVEUR magazine presents its best butter recipes for pairing with food. Try dunking an artichoke leaf in melted butter; pairing salami and butter on a baguette; tossing spaghetti with butter, grated parmigiano-reggiano, and black pepper; or sauteeing mushrooms in butter. Delicious!

WATCH: How to Make Clarified Butter

Sage Brown Butter
Sage Brown Butter

Sage Brown Butter

Radish and Butter Sandwich
Radish and Butter Sandwich

It’s très French to pair crisp, spicy radishes with softened, salted butter; a thin-sliced baguette is the perfect vehicle. Get the recipe for Radish and Butter Sandwich »

Nancy Silverton's Butter Biscuit recipe
Butter-Basted Eggs
Butter-Basted Eggs

Crispy-bottomed fried eggs make an ideal breakfast. Get the recipe for Butter-Basted Eggs »

Brown Butter Pasta
Brown Butter Pasta

Hamilton gave us her recipe for this delicious pasta, which is tossed in brown butter and pine nuts, then topped with sunny-side-up eggs. See the recipe for Brown Butter Pasta »

Chez Panisse Garlic Butter

Set atop a sizzling steak, this restaurant classic melts luxuriously onto the meat. The recipe is adapted from Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse Cooking (Random House, 1988). Get the recipe for Chez Panisse Garlic Butter »

Julia Child's Garlic Mashed Potato recipe
Julia Child's Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Thirty cloves of garlic go into this creamy side dish, adapted from Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking: Volume 1 (Alfred A. Knopf, 1961). The cloves are first blanched whole, which enhances their sweetness, then used to make a rich béchamel sauce that’s stirred into mashed potatoes with cream and parsley. Get the recipe for Julia Child’s Garlic Mashed Potatoes »

The croissant’s perfection is twofold: an interior of infinitely spiraling paper-thin layers and a shatteringly flaky crust.

Grilled Lobster with Garlic-Parsley Butter
Grilled Lobster with Garlic-Parsley Butter

Grilled Lobster with Garlic-Parsley Butter

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