Roasted Garlic Butter is so easy to make with just 4 ingredients. This garlic spread is delicious on bread, pasta, vegetables and so much more.
I got out my air fryer to air fry garlic for this Roasted Garlic Butter recipe and you should too!
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Roasted Garlic Butter
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You can still make this recipe if you don’t have an air fryer but it will take more time to roast your garlic in the oven.
The air fryer just roasts the garlic in much less time than the oven takes. And who doesn’t love that?
So once the heads of garlic are roasted you will have a flavored garlic spread in mere minutes.
The sweet and caramelized flavor of the roasted garlic cannot be topped.
Roasting garlic adds a dimension of flavor that will delight your tastebuds.
Just squeeze those soft and creamy cloves of garlic out of the head of garlic and mash them.
Then stir that deliciousness together with butter, rosemary and cracked black pepper. Easy peasy!
You can stop there and you’ll have amazing garlic spread with bits of roasted garlic throughout or you can take it one step further.
An immersion blender will combine the butter into a smoother creamy flavorful mixture.
Either way, you’ll want to make garlic butter all the time because it’s so easy to make and so delicious to eat!
We all know that everything’s better with butter, but you can also make this recipe with, dare I say, margarine. Just giving you options here, but we all know butter will taste so much better!
There are so many ways to enjoy this garlic butter with herbs.
Slather some on a slice of rustic bread, toss with hot pasta, spoon a dollop over hot vegetables or melt on top of a grilled steak. I could go on and on!
Any way you serve this Roasted Garlic Butter will be a delicious way!
Love a flavored butter? Then you’ll want to make our Basil Pesto Butter too!
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How to make a roasted garlic herb butter
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- Combine butter, roasted garlic, rosemary and pepper
- Stir until blended
- Refrigerate until ready to use
Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips
- Be sure that your butter is at room temperature so that it is easy to stir everything together
- Use an immersion blender if you prefer a smoother and creamier flavored butter
- This recipe can easily be doubled
How to serve rosemary garlic butter
- On your favorite rustic bread
- Spread on small toasts as an appetizer
- Tossed with hot pasta
- Dollop over cooked vegetables
- On top of a grilled steak
- On top of your favorite fish
- Stir into ground beef to flavor burgers and meatloaf
- Toss with vegetables and roast them in the oven
- Stir into mashed potatoes
- Top a baked potato
- Brush over chicken and under the skin before roasting
- Spread on a sandwich
Substitutions
- Substitute margarine for the butter (but butter is always better!)
- Substitute dried rosemary for the fresh rosemary
Equipment
- air fryer
- immersion blender
- measuring spoons
- measuring cups
Storage
Store your garlic spread in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 7 days
Garlic butter can be also be frozen in several ways:
- Freeze butter in ice cube trays for easy to use portions
- Roll butter up in a log shape, wrap in plastic wrap, then foil, and freeze. You can slice off as much as you need for recipes
- Seal in an airtight container and scoop out portions as needed
- Butter can be frozen for about one month
I find it helpful to always visit the FDA website for food storage guidelines.
Ingredients for garlic butter with herbs
- salted butter
- air fryer roasted garlic
- fresh rosemary
- cracked black pepper
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Roasted Garlic Butter
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Equipment
- immersion blender optional
Ingredients
- ½ cup salted butter , at room temperature
- ¼ cup air fryer roasted garlic , mashed
- 1 teaspoon finely minced fresh rosemary
- 1/2 teaspoon cracked black pepper
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Instructions
- Combine butter, roasted garlic, rosemary and pepper.
- Stir until blended.
- Refrigerate until ready to use.
Notes
- Be sure that your butter is at room temperature so that it is easy to stir everything together
- Use an immersion blender if you prefer a smoother and creamier flavored butter
- This recipe can easily be doubled
- Substitute margarine for the butter (but butter is always better!)
- Substitute dried rosemary for the fresh rosemary
- Freeze butter in ice cube trays for easy to use portions
- Roll butter up in a log shape, wrap in plastic wrap, then foil, and freeze. You can slice off as much as you need for recipes
- Seal in an airtight container and scoop out portions as needed
- Butter can be frozen for about one month
- On your favorite rustic bread
- Spread on small toasts as an appetizer
- Tossed with hot pasta
- Over hot vegetables
- On top of a grilled steak
- On top of your favorite fish
- Stir into ground beef to flavor burgers and meatloaf
- Toss with vegetables and roast them in the oven
- Stir into mashed potatoes
- Top a baked potato
- Brush over chicken and under the skin before roasting
- Spread on a sandwich
I love roasted garlic anything but I never tried making it in an air-fryer! I'm glad I did, this butter was amazing and we really enjoyed it this past week.