Maitre D' Butter Recipe

Ingredients

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• Maitre d' Butter: shopping list
• 1 lb (4 sticks) unsalted butter shopping list
• ¼ cup chopped Italian parsley (leaves only) shopping list
• 3 Tbsp lemon juice (juice from about 1 lemon) shopping list
• Preparation: shopping list
• In a large bowl, mash the butter with a potato masher or just squish it up with your hands. You can even cream the butter using the paddle attachment of a stand mixer — but the goal is just to get the butter soft so you can incorporate the chopped herbs. shopping list
• Add the lemon juice and chopped parsley and continue mashing/squishing/mixing until the ingredients are fully mixed. shopping list
• Spread out a large (1-foot or bigger) square of plastic wrap across your work surface, then scoop the mixed butter onto the plastic. You are now going to roll the butter into a cylinder inside the plastic wrap shopping list
• Tie the excess plastic wrap at the ends of the cylinder into a knot, or just use little pieces of string to tie off the ends. You can even make a string out of a short section of plastic wrap and rolling it into a little rope. shopping list
• Chill or freeze until needed. shopping list