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Garlic Butter

This easy homemade garlic butter is only 4 ingredients and takes 5 minutes to make at home! You'll never use storebought again!

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Nothing beats homemade garlic butter, especially when it’s spread on some good old Texas toast and magically transformed into garlic bread!  This recipe is so easy to customize with ingredients that you have on hand.

While it’s better with fresh herbs, you don’t have to use them if you can’t get them (which everyone is having a problem with lately) so dried works great as well!

garlic butter spread on Texas toast

Homemade Garlic Butter

Garlic butter is easy to make and there are many ways you can mix it up flavor-wise by adding additional ingredients. There is no reason to have to buy garlic butter at the store – I just saw a stick (that’s a quarter cup!) of garlic butter for $4.50 at the store. WHAT!? Not a chance I am paying that when homemade is so easy to make! You can also try this with roasted garlic, just follow my directions on how to roast garlic.

Ingredients

This is so simple to make! You add everything into a bowl and mix it up!

  • salted butter (if you can find sea salt butter it’s amazing)
  • garlic (fresh is the best if you can find it)
  • parsley
  • chives or onion powder
Ingredients for Garlic Butter in a clear bowl

Substitutions Using Dried Ingredients

It is not easy finding everything fresh lately, so for this recipe I used onion powder instead of fresh chives because I wasn’t able to find any. If you can’t order fresh, there are dried substitutions for all the ingredients:

  • use garlic powder instead of fresh garlic
  • use onion powder or freeze-dried chives instead of fresh chives
  • use dried or freeze-dried parsley instead of fresh parsley
mixed Ingredients for Garlic Butter in a clear bowl with the fork in it

Delicious Additions to your Garlic Butter

There are people that like plain garlic butter, and those who want to fancy it up. If you are on the fancy side of things, try adding:

Try this on my Instant Pot mashed potatoes for a real treat!

And there you go! No paying $4.50 for a stick of garlic butter even again! Hope you enjoy it!

Love,

Karlynn

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Garlic Butter

This easy homemade garlic butter is only 4 ingredients and takes 5 minutes to make at home! You'll never use storebought again!
5 from 2 votes
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Course: Sauces
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Servings: 16 tablespoon servings
Calories: 105kcal

Ingredients 

  • 1 cup salted butter softened ( if you can find sea salt butter even better!)
  • 3 large garlic cloves smashed flat then minced finely
  • 3 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley
  • 1-2 tablespoons fresh chives minced
  • 1/4 teaspoon black pepper optional

Dried Substitutions

  • 2 teaspoons garlic powder
  • 2 tablespoons dried parsley
  • 1/4 teaspoon onion powder

Instructions

  • Combine all of the ingredients together in a bowl.
  • Use to make garlic toast, on hot pasta, or your mashed potatoes and more!

Notes

  • Each serving is one tablespoon of the mixture.

Nutrition

Calories: 105kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 31mg | Sodium: 103mg | Potassium: 17mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 368IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 7mg | Iron: 1mg
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Karlynn Johnston

I’m a busy mom of two, wife & cookbook author who loves creating fast, fresh meals for my little family on the Canadian prairies. Karlynn Facts: I'm allergic to broccoli. I've never met a cocktail that I didn't like. I would rather burn down my house than clean it. Most of all, I love helping YOU get dinner ready because there's nothing more important than connecting with our loved ones around the dinner table!

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  1. Jackie frutos says

    this recipe was so good I decided to try it when I couldn’t find my mom’s garlic butter recipe highly recommend5 stars

  2. April says

    This was really good! I whipped some up today for a hot sandwich 🤤

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