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Submitted by Leon

Three-ingredient strawberry fruit butter: softened butter blended with crushed strawberries and fresh lemon juice. A pink, spreadable compound butter for scones, toast, or pancakes.

YIELD

12 servings

PREP

5 min

COOK

20 min

READY

5 min

Compound butters are the easiest way to turn breakfast bread into something that tastes like a hotel brunch, and this strawberry version takes about five minutes to put together. Three ingredients, no cooking, and it freezes beautifully for months.

The technique is just creaming softened butter and folding in crushed berries and a squeeze of lemon. The lemon does double duty: it brightens the strawberry flavor and slows the natural browning of the fruit so the butter stays a clean rosy pink instead of turning grey.

Use the best butter you can find. With only three ingredients on the plate, the dairy quality shows up immediately. European-style cultured butter (higher fat, lower water content) gives the silkiest result.

For the strawberries, ripe and red is the bare minimum. Crush them with a fork rather than a blender, you want texture and visible flecks of fruit, not a smooth puree.

Pro Tips

  • Make sure the butter is genuinely soft (room temperature for an hour), not melted. Melted butter won’t re-emulsify and you’ll get a separated mess.
  • Pat crushed berries with a paper towel before mixing to remove excess juice. Wet butter goes greasy and weeps in the fridge.
  • Pipe or roll into a log on parchment paper, twist the ends, and chill for clean slices that look like patisserie work.
  • Use within a week from the fridge, or freeze for up to 3 months.

Variations

  • Swap strawberries for raspberries, blueberries, or finely diced peaches.
  • Add a tablespoon of honey or maple syrup for sweeter spreading on biscuits or scones.
  • Stir in fresh chopped basil or mint with the berries for a savory-sweet twist that goes on grilled chicken.

Ingredients

1 237
CUP ML BUTTER
softened
¾ 177
CUP ML STRAWBERRIES
crushed *
1 1
LEMON
juice of *

Directions

Cream butter; stir in fruit and juice.

Refrigerate or freeze. Keeps well in freezer.

Makes 1½ cup.

NOTE: Other fresh fruit is a good substitute, such as rasberries, blueberries, finely chopped apples or pears.

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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 19g (0.7 oz)
Amount per Serving
Calories 406 102% from fat
 % Daily Value *
Total Fat 46g 71%
Saturated Fat 29g 146%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 122mg 41%
Sodium 327mg 14%
Total Carbohydrate 0g 0%
Dietary Fiber 0g 0%
Sugars g
Protein 1g
Vitamin A 28% Vitamin C 0%
Calcium 1% Iron 0%
* based on a 2,000 calorie diet How is this calculated?
Trans-fat Free, Low Carb, Sugar-Free
 

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