Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, cajun compound butter. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Cajun Compound Butter is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Cajun Compound Butter is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
I enjoy the recipe below, Holy Trinity Compound Butter, for an easy way to add a Cajun flair to a dish. The flavored butters give just a touch of heat without overwhelming a dish. Melt this zippy butter from our Test Kitchen over grilled corn on the cob and you'll be grinning from ear to ear!
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have cajun compound butter using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Cajun Compound Butter:
- Make ready 16 oz unsalted butter
- Make ready 2 tsp thyme
- Get 2 tbsp minced garlic
- Prepare 2 tbsp smoked paprika
- Make ready 2 tsp oregano
- Prepare 3 tbsp your favorite Cajun spice
- Make ready 1 set of gloves
- Make ready 2 lb jumbo shrimp
Compound butters (French: beurre composé, pl. beurres composés) are mixtures of butter and supplementary ingredients. Primarily, they are used to enhance flavor in various dishes, in a fashion similar to a sauce. Compound butters can be made at home or purchased commercially. This colorful and flavorful compound butter has a slight radish-like taste.
Steps to make Cajun Compound Butter:
- Let the butter get to room temperature so that it is easy to work with
- Add all ingredients into 1 bowl
- Put gloves on and mix ingredients together until they are consistent throughout. You don't want any marbling.
- Once everything is mixed together work into a ball
- Stick back in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours, over night would be best
- Once refrigerated, take out and place in a sauté pan on a med/high heat and let melt 3/4 of the way down and add your shrimp or other seafood of choice
Compound butter is loaded on flavor, and you can easily and inexpensively make it on your own. Compound Butter Is the Easy Condiment That Makes Any Meal Feel Like a Special Occasion. Compound butter is the perfect way to jazz up dinner rolls or your traditional piece of toast in the morning. Cajun or Creole cuisine isn't always intensely hot, but it's always full of fresh flavor. Compound butters can be made sweet or savory and used on all sorts of things: French toast, baked potatoes and of course, corn.
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