Garlic Butter

Garlic butter.  Learn how to make it and enjoy a lifetime of tasty garlic bread, mashed potatoes, garlicky meatballs, bruschetta……

Garlic butter is awesome to have around.  If you want to jazz up any dinner you’re making, add in some garlic butter and enjoy!

Garlic butter is also pretty easy to make.  You can either use a garlic press to get your minced garlic or you can use a sharp knife to keep cutting that garlic up until it’s in the smallest pieces possible.

Here’s what you need to make it:

• 1 cup of spreadable butter/margarine
• 2 or 3 cloves of garlic, depending on how strong you like it
• A tiny bit of water
• A couple of sprinkles of parsley or oregano

Here’s how to make it:

1.  Put some spreadable butter/margarine into a reusable container.

Margarine

2.  Mince up your garlic and add it to the butter.

Minced garlic added in

3.  Add a few sprinkles of parsley or oregano.  This step is optional – I like to do it because it gives the garlic butter pretty green specks.  I sometimes add a bit of pepper, too.  Just because I really love pepper.

Oregano added in, along with a little bit of pepper

4.  Use a fork to mix it all up.

Mixing it up

5.  Turn your water faucet on so it’s just dripping.  Add just a few drops of water into the garlic butter.  This will make it deliciously creamy.  If you add too much water, stir it up and then add some more margarine to thicken it back up.

Deliciously creamy!

Store your garlic butter in the fridge. Use it wherever and whenever you want!!

Total cost to make:

• Butter/margarine:  $1.50
• Garlic:  $0.50
• Parsley/oregano:  $0.03

Total cost to make:  $2.03