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Herb Seasoned Butter for Broccoli
This seasoned garlic and herb butter sauce goes beautifully with fresh broccoli. This makes a wonderful side dish to so many meat or fish recipes and you can also serve this to vegetarians. A hint of red pepper flakes gives a gentle amount of spice to this seasoned butter for broccoli recipe and allows the other flavors to shine through as well. Seasoned butter is easy to make and everybody will love it. For the best recipes, use fresh herbs and a good quality butter - this applies to any garlic herb butter recipes or butter sauce recipes. Never use margarine to make herb butter because it will not taste anything like as good.
This seasoned butter is served with hot broccoli and it acts more like a butter sauce than an herb butter, in that it coats the broccoli and adds lots of flavor to it. An herb butter is like a sauce actually, because it coats the food, keeping it moist and giving it flavor. If you like a lot of seasoned butter for broccoli, you can double the recipe. Either chill the seasoned butter and serve it in disks with the broccoli or combine the seasoned butter with the hot broccoli and toss them together. It will taste the same; it is just a question of presentation.
This herb butter and garlic sauce gives your broccoli the royal treatment. You can leave out the red pepper if you do not want the hint of spiciness. Also, if you are using salted butter you should taste it before adding any salt. You might need to use much less. It is also a good idea to add the salt slowly if you are using unsalted butter since it is easier to add a little more if necessary than to remove an excess of it!
How to Make Seasoned Butter
Ingredients -
2 minced garlic cloves
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon chopped fresh oregano
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
1 chopped head broccoli
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon black pepper
⅛ teaspoon red pepper flakes
Preparation:
Grill the broccoli over an indirect moderate heat for about 10 minutes in a covered grill, turning it once, or until it is tender.
Microwave the butter on high for 20 seconds or until it is very soft.
Alternatively, just let it reach room temperature for 20 minutes.
Stir in the garlic, parsley, oregano, salt, black pepper, and red pepper.
Serve the seasoned butter with the grilled broccoli.
(Serves 6)
Photo Description:
A good seasoned butter for broccoli must be made with good quality butter. Do not worry about the calories because a little herb butter goes a long way. This delicious recipe makes a green-colored seasoned butter, as you can see from the photo, which contains garlic as well as oregano and parsley for a superior flavor. A little red pepper gives it a spicy edge without making it too spicy and broccoli is the perfect vegetable to serve it with, although this seasoned butter for broccoli will be tasty with pretty much any grilled vegetables recipe if you prefer to make something different.
