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    🏠Home » Recipes » Sauces, Rubs, and Seasonings Recipes

    Blue Cheese and Garlic Compound Butter

    Jun 13, 2020 | Last Updated Apr 15, 2021 by Dan Mikesell AKA DrDan

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    4.6 from 30 votes

    Make that steak or vegetables pop with this wonderful blue cheese and garlic compound butter. Add layers of butter, garlic, and blue cheese to make the meal extra special.

    Image of Blue Cheese and Garlic Compound Butter on a strip steak

    Table of Contents
    • 🧂Ingredients
    • 👨‍🍳Uses
    • ❄️Storage
    • 🐄Steak Recipes
    • 🖼️Step-by-Step Photo Instructions
    • 📖Recipe
    • 💬 Comments

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    Introduction

    There are as many compound butter recipes as there are people. Well almost.

    After reading many of these recipes, we came up with what my wife really wanted, great blue cheese taste with a bunch of garlic and butter. We have repeated this many times since.

    My Rating

    My rating system. Great 5 out of 5

    Excellent addition to steak, veggies, or even a baked potato.

    🧂Ingredients

    The Butter

    I use regular salted butter softened a little be sitting at room temperature or softened slightly in the microwave. If you use unsalted butter, you should add about one-quarter teaspoon of salt.

    The Blue Cheese

    Blue cheese crumbles are made for salad toppings and are perfect here but you can use any blue cheese you have and just break it up to incorporate it completely. ½ cup of crumbles is about 2 ozs of weight.

    Other Ingredients

    Now comes the fun. You can add almost anything you think would be good: Garlic, fresh herbs, shallots, scallions, spices, zest from fruits, cheeses, but almost anything you want. Now, I think the combination I have here is exceptionally good, and my wife has made me repeat it many times.

    👨‍🍳Uses

    Most commonly, compound butter is added to steaks. We commonly use it on strip steaks to make them exceptional for special dinners. But use it on any steak like ribeye or t-bones.

    It will also add a ton of flavor to vegetables or a baked potato.

    A little goes long ways. A tablespoon or two is more than enough for lots of flavors.

    ❄️Storage

    While butter stores well, there are fresh components here. I feel that 3 to 4 days refrigerated is as long as I would trust it.

    For freezing, I generally will cut the compound butter into slices of about a tablespoon each, seal tight, and flat before freezing. We can then take out a few when needed. They are good for 2 to 3 months.

    🐄Steak Recipes

    Pan Seared Oven Roasted Strip Steak

    How to Grill a Strip Steak on a Gas Grill

    How to Grill a Ribeye Steak on a Gas Grill

    How to Grill a T-bone or Porterhouse Steak - A Tutorial

    This recipe is listed in these categories. See them for more similar recipes.

    Beef Recipes, Sauces, Rubs, and Seasonings Recipes
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    🖼️Step-by-Step Photo Instructions

    blue cheese and ingredients for compound butter

    Allow one stick ( ½ cup) butter to come to room temperature. You can speed that up some with the microwave.

    mixing compound butter in small bowl with fork

    Combine with ½ cup blue cheese crumbles. One tablespoon fresh chopped parsley, one teaspoon dry basil, and two cloves crushed garlic.

    rolling a log of compound butter in parchment paper

    Form into a roll in parchment paper and allow to firm up in a refrigerator for 1-2 hours before serving.

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    📖Recipe

    Blue Cheese Compound Butter on a strip steak

    Blue Cheese and Garlic Compound Butter

    From Dan Mikesell AKA DrDan
    Make that steak or vegetables pop with this wonderful blue cheese and garlic compound butter. Add layers of butter, garlic, and blue cheese to make the meal extra special.
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    Prep Time: 5 minutes
    Cook Time: 0 minutes
    Total Time: 2 hours 5 minutes
    Servings #/Adjust if desired 12

    Ingredients

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    • ½ cup butter - with salt or add ¼ teaspoon kosher salt if unsalted butter
    • ½ cup blue cheese crumbs
    • 1 tablespoon parsley - fresh
    • 1 teaspoon basal
    • 2 cloves garlic - crushed

    Instructions

    • Allow one stick ( ½ cup) butter to come to room temperature. You can speed that up some with the microwave.
    • Combine with ½ cup blue cheese crumbles. One tablespoon fresh chopped parsley, one teaspoon dry basil and two cloves crushed garlic.
    • Form into a roll in parchment paper and allow to firm up in a refrigerator for 1-2 hours before serving.
    See the step-by-step photos in the post. Some recipes have an option to display the photos here with a switch above these instructions but the photos DO NOT print.

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    Recipe Notes

    Pro Tips

    1. Use softened butter to make mixing easier.
    2. I suggest salted butter but if you use unsalted butter, add ¼ teaspoon salt per stick of butter.
    3. Add other ingredients if you want.
    4. You can use blue cheese other than crumbles if you break it up. ½ cup of crumbles is about 2 ozs of weight.
    5. While butter stores well, there are fresh components here. I feel that 3 to 4 days refrigerated is as long as I would trust it.
    6. For freezing, I generally will cut the compound butter into slices of about a tablespoon each, seal tight, and flat before freezing. We can then take out a few when needed. They are good for 2 to 3 months.
    7. Good on any type of steak along with vegetables and potatoes.

    To adjust the recipe size:

    You may adjust the number of servings in this recipe card under servings. This does the math for the ingredients for you. BUT it does NOT adjust the text of the instructions. So you need to do that yourself.

    Nutrition Estimate

    Calories : 89 kcal (4%) | Carbohydrates : 1 g | Protein : 1 g (2%) | Fat : 9 g (14%) | Saturated Fat : 6 g (30%) | Cholesterol : 25 mg (8%) | Sodium : 146 mg (6%) | Potassium : 14 mg | Sugar : 1 g (1%) | Vitamin A : 307 IU (6%) | Vitamin C : 1 mg (1%) | Calcium : 33 mg (3%) | Iron : 1 mg (6%)
    Serving size is my estimate of a normal size unless stated otherwise. The number of servings per recipe is stated above. This is home cooking, and there are many variables. All nutritional information are estimates and may vary from your actual results. To taste ingredients such as salt will be my estimate of the average used.
    Course : American
    Cuisine : American

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    Editor's Note: Originally Published July 10, 2016. Updated with expanded options, refreshed photos, and a table of contents to help navigation.

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    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Ginger Ward

      June 08, 2019 at 7:28 pm

      5 stars
      Yummy! So good. Thank you so much for sharing.

      Reply
    2. Christine @ myblissfulmess

      December 30, 2018 at 2:06 pm

      For Christmas dinner, we decided to step outside the box, but only a little bit, and grill steaks for our main dish. We found beautiful steaks on sale and I liked the fact that The Hubs can do the grilling, while I take care of the side dishes, instead of me doing it all. To make these steaks extra special for Christmas, I made this compound butter to melt on top of them. It's incredibly delicious! Everyone loved it, especially The Hubs! This was better than any steakhouse recipe we've ever had. So delicious!

      Reply
      • DrDan

        December 31, 2018 at 1:22 pm

        Hi Christine,
        Welcome to the blog.
        This is something special I started doing for my wife. She is a blue cheese and garlic hound. But I love it too.
        Thanks for the note and Happy New Years.
        Dan

    3. Ann

      July 16, 2018 at 7:40 pm

      I made the Blue Cheese Butter and it was awesome

      Reply
    4. Ann

      July 05, 2018 at 7:49 pm

      Can you freeze this?

      Reply
      • DrDan

        July 05, 2018 at 8:27 pm

        Yes, I do it all the time. Cut into serving size pats. Good frozen for 2-3 months.

    5. Susan B.

      July 02, 2018 at 9:28 pm

      How much is a serving as far as ounces or grams? I see there are 12 servings but I can’t find what is considered a serving. Thank you.

      Reply
      • DrDan

        July 02, 2018 at 10:05 pm

        Total recipe makes 1 cup in volume (about 6 oz of weight since the blue cheese crumbles are less dense).

        Think of a 1 tablespoon pat of butter. It will be about 1/3 larger and weight about 1/2 oz. So a good size chunk.

    6. Tim Daugherty

      January 14, 2018 at 2:16 pm

      Made this today for my bacon wraped filet. What a treat, thanks much for posting.

      Reply

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