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Make Your Own Meat Flavoring: Compound Butter

Posted April 18, 2008 at 12:00 PM by Denise Musumeci

Section: His Nutrition, Diets, Recipes

Looking for some new flavor for your food? Tired of the same old steak sauce? Try making compound butter. The recipe is simple and recommended from Matt Goulding, Men’s Health Food Editor.

In his video demonstration, Goulding starts by saying that compound butter is simply “butter with extra flavor.” Take a stick of butter and let it sit in a bowl on the counter until it softens. Add a teaspoon of chives and shallots for onion flavor, and crumbled blue cheese for rich flavor. Ground pepper can be added to taste. Once all of the ingredients are mixed, scoop it up on some plastic and wrap it up. Roll it out so it spreads and looks like a block. Allow it to sit in the fridge until it gets firm. It will last for a while and not spoil. When you are ready to use it, simply cut off a piece and add it to your steak or other type of meat that you choose.

Goulding recommends this option for meals because it is made of many spices and is simple to make. Chefs may take hours preparing various sauces, but if you are a busy man, like many are, this flavor twist will add a new taste to your meal quickly. It only takes a few minutes to make and it spices up your meal.

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2 Responses to “Make Your Own Meat Flavoring: Compound Butter” (Leave a reply)

James Flesher from Philadelphia said:

I could see where this would be tasty, but what it’s doing on a fitness sight I can’t even imagine. You are already eating a slab of saturated fat and animal protein which when digested will become acidic and leech calcium from your bones, so why add another chunk of saturated fat with no nutritional benefit in the form of compound butter? I would say that somewhere a vegan activist is rolling in their grave, but then I realized: We’re all alive because we don’t have heart attacks from eating crap like this. Robert Atkins would approve, but of course he’s dead because he *did* eat like this.
April 24, 2008 at 10:26 AM
Bob said:

First, they’re called Web “sites” not “sights.”

Second, some guys (like myself) actually like meat, and understand that the protein and amino acids in meat are what help build muscle.

In fact, a lot of guys like meat. And those are two reasons both Men’s Health and Hesfit probably decided to post this article.
April 24, 2008 at 03:45 PM