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Miso Butter

Adds an intense, salty-savoury taste to vegetables, meat and fish, rice, noodles and eggs.

Add herbs and spices to the base recipe to create your own Miso Butter flavours.

Course Condiment
Cuisine Japanese, World
Keyword quick
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 0 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings 225 grams
Author Moorlands Eater

Ingredients

  • 150 g soft butter salted or unsalted
  • 50-75 g miso paste white, yellow, or red

Optional flavourings

  • spring onions finely chopped
  • fresh herbs e.g. parsley, coriander, chives, wild garlic finely chopped
  • fresh chilli finely chopped
  • dried chilli flakes
  • orange, lemon or lime zest
  • spices e.g. black pepper, smoked paprika, cumin

Instructions

  1. Put the softened butter and 50g of the miso paste into a bowl or small food processor.

    Beat or blend to combine, then taste.

    Add more miso paste if liked, plus any of the optional flavourings, then beat or blend again until thoroughly combined.

  2. To store

    Scrape onto a piece of baking paper then roll into a log, twisting the ends to secure.

    Store in the fridge and use within 2 weeks or freeze for up to 1 month.