Tips For Serving Butter

Butter is a dairy product made from the protein and fat components of whipped cream. It is a semi-solid emulsion at room temperature, consisting of 80% fat. At room temperature, it is used for spreading, melts as a condiment, and is used as an ingredient in sauces, baking, frying, and other cooking procedures. There are various types of butter such as cultured butter, sweet cream butter, clarified butter, whey butter, etc.

Serving butter with various dishes is a hard thing to do. Especially, when it is at room temperature or straight out of the refrigerator. For example, you take out the butter from the refrigerator and you start spreading it on the bread, then it will form unattractive lumps or sometimes holes in the bread’s surface. To serve butter with a dish, make sure that the butter is at room temperature. It will make it easier to cut cubes or make designs with butter.

To serve butter, make sure that it is melted to room temperature, otherwise, it will not be as presentable as you were expecting. For this purpose, you can leave it on the countertop at room temperature for more or less 45 minutes. If you are in a hurry, then there are a few ways to soften the butter quickly.

Cut In Cubes

The first and easiest method of making the butter soften at room temperature is to simply cut it into cubes. The smaller the pieces, the quicker they will soften.

Firstly, cut the butter stick in half.
You will have two rectangles side by side.
Now stack them and slice them together.
Keep them stacked and start slicing perpendicular to the cuts.
You will have butter cubes.

Instead of keeping the butter stick on the counter for 45 minutes, you can easily soften it in 15 minutes by following this method.

Roll Or Pound The Butter

The second method of softening the butter is laborious but with kitchen knives, you will have softened butter for serving in no time. For this purpose, you will have to:

Use a roll, rolling pin, or pound to crush the butter until it is flat.
Also, you can use a hammer to flatten the butter.
The hammering or rolling creates a friction heat that softens the butter.
Keep in mind that the larger surface softens quicker.

To minimize the mess, you can use two sheets of waxed paper to flatten the butter by rolling or hammering. As a result, the butter will not stick to the counter or rolling pin.

Shredding

The last and fastest method of softening the butter is shredding. It creates a messy plate but it is the quickest of the three. The steps of shredding the butter are as follows:

Partially unwrap the butter and use the half-wrapped as a handle to keep the hand clean.
Now shred the butter by using the larger holes in the grater.
While shredding, the butter will come down to a chewy heap.
In this way, the butter will look like grated mozzarella cheese.
You can use a bowl or plate to collect the shredding butter in one place.

As mentioned earlier, the small pieces soften quickly. Hence, you will be able to use the grated butter for the recipe or serve it with a dish. For baking, you can use this method while making a pie crust. But it requires cold butter. Before grating, you can use the best knives for the cheese to cut the butter stick. As a result, you will get small and hard pieces of butter that make the crust flaky and tender.

How To Serve Nut Butter?

Since the PB&J lunchbox, nut butter has come a long way. Now, improved cashew, almond, sunflower, and even nut and seed butter vie for attention. Whichever variety you choose, nut butter is healthy.

Blend A Smoothie

Nut butter is the perfect ingredient for making thicker and creamier smoothies. It can be the best smoothie whether you are making it for breakfast or a post-workout snack. For making a high in protein and healthy fats smoothie, it is recommended to mix one banana, low-fat almond milk, and nut butter.

Creamy Dip

To beat the afternoon blues, choose a snack with extra protein, caffeine, and sugar. You can pair a nut butter topping by slicing and dicing vegetables or fruits. Also, you can use apple slices, celery, peas, carrots, strawberries, etc. It is good to pair different options each time.

Protein Pancakes

You can give your breakfast a boost by adding nut butter to the mixture.

Heat a pan over medium heat. Add butter to the pan so that pancake batter does not stick to the pan.
Now add 1 cup of flour, 1/4 cup of nut butter, 1 tablespoon of honey, 3 eggs, and 1 teaspoon of cinnamon in the bowl.
Then stir until all the ingredients are combined.
Pour the batter into the pan and cook until the bottom is brown. It will take about 3 minutes.
Now flip the pancake and cook the other side until lightly browned. It will take about 3 minutes.
Pancakes cooked with butter can be topped with maple syrup.

Oatmeal

You can stir butter into the oatmeal. A bowl of oats can be bulked up with protein and flavor by adding your favorite nut butter. If you are having frozen yogurt or fat-free Greek yogurt, then you can add nut butter for better flavor and more protein.

Thai-Style Dinner

If you like the nutty flavors of the Thai dishes, then instead of going to expensive Thai restaurants, you can make a stir-fry at home. You can mix brown rice, vegetables, and soy sauce to make a Thai-style dinner. But if you like the sweet, simple, and savory recipe of the Thai-style dinner, then follow these steps:

Whisk 1 tbsp light soy sauce, 1 tbsp peanut butter, 1 tbsp water, and 1 tsp chili paste in a small bowl.
Make a paste by mixing the ingredients until smooth.
Heat a wok over medium-high heat.
Add 3 tbsp vegetable oil.
When the oil is hot, add 1 tsp minced ginger and 1 tsp minced garlic.
Now cook for about 1 minute until fragrant.
Add 4 cups of chopped vegetables such as green peas, onions, carrots, broccoli, etc.
Add 8 ounces of skinless and boneless chicken breast
Fry the chicken for about 2 minutes.
Sauté until chicken is browned and cooked through.
Now add 2 cups of cooked soba noodles and toss to coat.
Add the peanut/chili paste mixture and 1 tbsp of brown sugar and 1 tsp of apple cider vinegar.
Now mix the ingredients and cook for about 2 minutes and serve it in melamine dishes.

Butter Nutrition

Nutrition	Amount	% Daily Value
Calories	717
Total Fat	81g	124%
Saturated Fat	51g	255%
Trans Fat Regulation	3.3g
Cholesterol	215mg	71%
Sodium	11mg	0%
Potassium	24mg	0%
Total Carbohydrates	0.1g	0%
Dietary Fiber	0g	0%
Sugar	0.1g
Protein	0.9g	1%
Calcium		2%
Vitamin D		15%
Cobalamin		3%

The amount of nutrition is based on 100 grams.

Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000-calorie diet depending on the calorie needs of an individual.

Butter – How To Serve Butter

Butter, a dairy product, can be used in various ways for serving. The first thing about serving butter is softening it to room temperature. It is because the butter straight out of the refrigerator is stiff. When you try to spread it over a slice of bread, it makes holes in the bread and makes unattractive lumps. Before serving the butter with bread, make sure that you have softened it to room temperature by using different ways.

Peanut butter or nut butter has been famous for a long time now. Also, peanut butter is healthier than other kinds of butter. It comes with more proteins than the normal butter. Nut butter can be served in various ways such as in smoothies, creamy dip, protein pancakes, Thai-style dinner, oatmeal, etc. The best thing about nut butter is that it is a booster and post-workout snack.