Name: Chipotle and Chive Compound Butter
Prep time: 10 min
Ingredients: 1 stick Salted butter; 1.5 tablespoons Fresh chives (Minced); 1 tablespoon Chipotle seasoning; 1/2 teaspoon Chili powder

This is one of my favorite compound butters. It’s got a little smoky heat from the chipotle seasoning and that lovely onion from the chives. A bit of chili powder rounds out this Chipotle and Chive Compound Butter that makes a wonderful addition to steak, burgers, and all sorts of other proteins. If chipotle or chives aren’t you your thing, you could try this Sweet Chili Compound Butter or Garlic and Herb Butter.

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Chipotle and Chive Compound Butter Ingredients

1 stick of salted butter
1.5 tablespoons fresh chives, minced
1 tablespoon chipotle seasoning
1/2 teaspoon chili powder
1 sheet of parchment paper or wax paper or plastic wrap

How to Make Chipotle and Chive Compound Butter

To begin, put the stick of butter in the microwave for 10 seconds to soften

Then mince the fresh chives:

Add the butter to a mixing bowl:

Next, grab the chipotle seasoning, which in this case is one of these grinder jars of chipotle:

The great thing about these grinders is they ingredients inside stay fresh for an incredibly long period of time, because as soon as they pass through the grinder, the ingredients are cracked open and the natural aromatics and flavors are released.

Then add the chives:

And yeah, I started mixing the chives and chipotle through the butter before I added the chili powder:

Mix everything through with a spoon:

Then lay down a sheet of parchment or wax paper or a section of plastic wrap and scoop the butter onto the it and roll it up like a big piece of candy:

Place the chipotle and chive compound butter in the fridge where it will keep for weeks or in the freezer where it will keep for months. Cook up a mean steak and then grab a pat of this flavor packed butter to use as a steak topper:

This steak is from the Reverse Seared Beef Tallow Steak I did the same day I made this butter and a garlic and herb compound butter.

Here are a few shots from the steak cook and of course those wonderful sliced pics:

How good was that steak and this butter? I think this pic sums it up:

Compound Butter Recap

A simple steak, seasoned by salt and pepper, reverse seared and then topped with a pat of this chipotle and chive compound butter is just about as good as it gets. Seriously. Give the finishing butter a chance. It doesn’t take much.

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Chipotle and Chive Compound Butter

Salted butter mixed with chipotle seasoning, fresh chives and a little chili powder to make Chipotle and Chive Compound Butter

Prep Time10 mins

Course: Butter, Compound Butter, Finishing Butter

Cuisine: Butter, Compound Butter, Steak, Steak Topper

Keyword: Butter, Chipotle, Chipotle and Chives Compound Butter, Chive, Chives, Compound Butter, Finishing Butter

Servings: People

Equipment

1 Sheet of parchment paper OR
1 Sheet of wax paper OR
1 Sheet of plastic wrap

Ingredients

1 stick Salted butter
1.5 tablespoons Fresh chives Minced
1 tablespoon Chipotle seasoning
½ teaspoon Chili powder

Instructions

Soften the stick of the butter in the microwave for 10 seconds
Add the butter to a large mixing bowl
Mince the fresh chives and add to the mixing bowl
Add the chipotle seasoning and chili powder to the bowl
Mix the ingredients through the butter with a spoon
Scoop the chipotle and chive compound butter onto a sheet of parchment or wax paper and roll into a large candy and refrigerate
Apply a pat of the butter to a resting steak or into a pot of chili or soup or onto burgers.

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Scott Thomas, the Original Grillin’ Fool, was sent off to college with a suitcase and a grill where he overcooked, undercooked and burned every piece of meat he could find. After thousands of failures, and quite a few successes, nearly two decades later he started a website to show step by step, picture by picture, foolproof instructions on how to make great things out of doors so that others don’t have to repeat the mistakes he’s made on the grill.