Easy Brown Butter
- COOK 5min
- TOTAL 5min
It takes five minutes to make brown butter. You can use it almost anytime a recipe calls for melted butter (hello, brown butter chocolate chip cookies). For herb brown butter, add a handful of fresh sage leaves, rosemary sprigs, or fresh thyme to the pan while you make the brown butter.
You Will Need
1 cup (227g) butter, salted or unsalted
Directions
Add butter to a heavy-bottomed pan over medium-low heat. As the butter melts, continuously swirl it around the pan. The butter will quickly go from brown to burnt, so stay close to the pan when you do this.
Continue swirling the butter over the heat. It will melt, get a little foamy, and finally start turning golden brown. Remove it from the heat when the butter is light brown and smells nutty.
Store brown butter in the fridge for up to two weeks or freeze for up to three months.
Adam and Joanne's Tips
- Storing: Homemade brown butter lasts in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 weeks or frozen for up to 3 months. The butter will solidify again, but you can warm it over low heat when needed. To freeze brown butter, pour it into a clean ice cube tray, freeze, and then transfer the frozen cubes to a freezer-safe container or bag.
- How to freeze brown butter: Pour it into a clean ice cube tray, freeze, and then transfer the frozen cubes to a freezer-safe container or bag. Freeze for up to 3 months. Gently reheat in a pan over low heat.
- Nutrition facts are estimates. We assumed unsalted butter.