4 Bold New Ways to Butter

Take a look at some of the most beautiful, delicious developments in the world of butter. All you need is a little inspiration and a lot of Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter to bring these trends to your kitchen. 

As much as you might love to cook, scrolling down a recipe’s long ingredient list can be exhausting. It’s no wonder so many people have been turning to Butter Pasta on weeknights. It’s delicious, satisfying and built around two ingredients you probably already have at home: Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter and a box of pasta. You can dress up that simple formula with sauteed garlic and fresh herbs. Better yet, you can take a quenelle of your homemade butter compound and mix it into the pasta. If you’re not familiar with quenelling, one of the other big butter trends of the year, you can perfect your technique in the time it takes to boil pasta. 

You might not know the word “quenelle” but you’d definitely recognize the shape. It’s the oval often used to present chocolate mousse, ice cream, pâté and more at upscale French restaurants. Now people are using warm spoons to swirl Kerrygold’s Pure Irish Butter (or flavored butter compounds made with Kerrygold) into quenelles at home. Considering how good it looks on charcuterie boards and social media profiles, it’s no wonder it replaced butter boards as the flashy way to serve an ingredient that’s always in style: Kerrygold. 

Cooking something on a griddle with butter is a cheat code for elevating almost any dish. So it’s about time people start looking beyond burgers and pancakes to explore all sorts of tasty new possibilities. One idea that’s perfect for the warmer seasons is halving a peach, sprinkling it with sugar and Kerrygold, and turning it face down on the griddle. Top that with a scoop—or maybe a quenelle?—of vanilla ice cream and you’ll have your new favorite dessert. 

Baking your own bread is so 2020. Making your own flavored butter compound is the fresh way to elevate a simple piece of toast. The smooth, rich taste of Kerrygold’s Pure Irish Butter is the perfect base for all kinds of flavors. It can add depth to classics like lemon-herb and unexpected, irresistible compounds such as ehuru-wildflower-honey butter. And why stop at spreading these sweet, spicy and savory butters on bread? Depending on what ingredients you decide to mix into your butter compound, you can add a dollop to everything from a stack of pancakes to a bowl of mashed potatoes. You can even mix it with some noodles to add extra flavor to your Butter Pasta. Whether you like your butter sweet, spicy or savory (or some combination of those flavors), you can always find new ways to enjoy Kerrygold.