Compound butter is an excellent way to introduce a lot of flavor to a simple dish such as grilled steak or fish. It is easy to make in advance or at the last minute and it can be made with whatever you can find in your pantry or your fridge. To avoid extra cholesterol and calories, I typically choose to make a "lightened up" compound butter with a butter substitute such as I Can't Believe It's Not Butter. Recently, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter sent me their butter spread to sample and I find it just as flavorful as butter and great to use for every day cooking and baking.
I decided to make my compound butter with smoked sun dried tomatoes that I found in my pantry last night. Flavored with Himalayan pink salt, this butter was amazing on top of the grass-fed filet mignon.
Ingredients:
1/3 cup smoked sun dried tomatoes
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
6 tablespoons I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spread
Himalayan pink salt to taste
Directions:
Combine smoked sun dried tomatoes with olive oil and balsamic vinegar in a food processor and mix well into a paste consistency. With a spoon, mix in the butter spread (the butter substitute will already be soft so no need to bring it to a room temperature as would need to do if using real butter). Season generously with Himalayan pink salt to taste. Roll into a log in a plastic wrap. Chill until firm. Serve on top of grilled meat or fish.
For more information and recipes with this butter spread, visit their website at http://www.icbinotbutter.com and twitter page http://twitter.com/ICBINotButter.
All opinions about the product expressed in this post are 100% my own and no compensation other than product sample and a prize pack were provided by ICBINB.
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This month's 5 Star Makeover Challenge is to create a Compound Butter with a twist. You can incorporate many different kinds of ingredients in various combinations to create interesting flavors, sweet or savory, inspired by any number of cuisines of the world. You can serve your compound butter with any kinds of interesting dishes as well. If you can make your compound butter "lightened up" with I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, that will be great, but you can also use a different butter substitute or real butter if this product is not available for you at the moment.
For this special makeover, I will select a winner and the winner will receive a prize pack that I Can't Believe It's Not Butter provided just for this event.
The prize pack will include:
To participate, please post about your creation mentioning "5 Star Makeover" and linking to this post or you can copy and paste this code to insert the new 5 Star Makeover logo as follows:
Then, send me an email at natasha@5starfoodie.com or leave a comment here with a link to your blog post. If you've made a compound butter recently and already posted about it, just send a link to your post! Please send your entries by Sunday, April 4. The round-up will be posted on Monday, April 5.
