The recipe is simple — mix butter with your choice of ingredients, and that's it!

Prep the butter: Allow the butter to soften at room temperature for easy mixing.

Choose your herbs: Finely chop your herbs. Some great choices are sage, tarragon, parsley, garlic, dill, or basil.

Mix together: Combine the butter and herbs in a bowl. Mix until well combined.

Shape and store:

Log roll — Roll it into a log and wrap it in plastic wrap.

Portion — Alternatively, press the butter into silicone ice cube trays or Souper Cubes for convenient portioning.

Refrigerate or freeze — Store in the fridge for up to a week or in the freezer for months. Slice off what you need or pop out a portion from the freezer.

When I have leftover fresh herbs, I whip up a batch of herbed butter and freeze it in Souper Cubes. This way, I always have a pat — or more — ready to go whenever I need it.

You can also pack a lot of herbs into a small portion of butter and add more butter when cooking. This is a great way to preserve your fresh herbs as well as maximize storage space.

Sage butter

Parsley butter — my son's favorite ingredient! 

Here are some examples of cooking with herbed butter to inspire your own creations.

Sage butter — on vegetables like roasted squash, grilled cheese, or pasta, for an elevated buttered noodle.

Grilled cheese with sage butter

Burro e Salivia — sage butter pasta

Tarragon butter – divine on steaks, chicken, or fish. It's all you need to season!

Tarragon butter on pan-seared steak

Parsley and garlic butter — garlic bread, sautéed shrimp, or on steak.

Shrimp with parsley butter and garlic

Sea bass with parsley butter and lemon

Basil butter – Try it and see what you like!

Basil, parsley, and dill butter on toast with cucumbers and shrimp

Dill butter — fabulous on salmon and shrimp

Dill, garlic, lemon butter — and I added celery leaves!

Have fun making your herbed butter! I'd love to hear about what you create.

Notes

I almost always have sage butter and parsley butter in the freezer. These were two of my kids' favorites for pasta and grilled cheese — and a sneaky way to add some healthy flavor!

Herbed butter is endlessly customizable — try experimenting with a few tablespoons of butter and some fresh herbs and see how you like it. Then you can make a batch to freeze, and you'll have a nutritious, flavorful, gourmet condiment on hand when you need it.