Description
If you’ve ever wondered how to make brown butter, you’re in luck! It’s EASY and adds gorgeous flavor to so many recipes.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1/2 cup butter (more or less, as called for in your recipe)
- Light-colored saucepan
- Whisk
Instructions
- Add butter to the saucepan or a skillet (preferably one with a heavy bottom)
- Whisking or stirring continuously, melt the butter over medium or medium-low (depending on how hot your stove runs–you don’t want it to burn!)
- Once the butter is melted, continue stirring. After 6-8 minutes, the butter will begin to foam and bubble. Pay attention to how the butter looks and smells here, as it can go from browned to burned fairly quickly.
- When the butter looks deeply golden and you can see that the butter solids are starting to brown, remove the pan from the heat.
- The butter will continue cooking in the hot pan, so transfer it to a bowl to cool down or pull it off the heat a minute before you think it’s fully done.
- Use right away or refrigerate to use later!
Notes
To know that the butter is ready, pay attention to the look, smell, and taste:
- LOOK: The butter will foam slightly on top, and after a few minutes of foaming, you’ll notice that the butter underneath has a deeper more golden, almost honey-colored tone.
- SMELL: It should smell slightly sweet and fragrant. It won’t smell like movie theater popcorn butter any more. Instead, it’ll have sweeter notes, almost like brown sugar or caramel.
- TASTE: If you carefully taste a tiny bit (it’s hot!), you’ll taste caramel-y or nutty notes.
- Prep Time: 1 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Category: Tutorial
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: French
Keywords: brown butter, browned butter, how to make brown butter, how to make browned butter
