How to Make Easy Brown Butter (1 Ingredient)

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How to Make Easy Brown Butter (1 Ingredient)

Learn how to make easy homemade brown butter recipe with 1 simple ingredient. It has a bold, nutty aroma that comes from cooking butter until it becomes golden brown and amber in color with little brown flecks. It can be used in baking, sauces, dips and even savory recipes to add more depth and flavor. Also known as beurre noisette in French.

Prep Time1

Cook Time10

Total Time11

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: Cups

Calories: 1628kcal

Author: Abeer Rizvi

Ingredients

½ cup Butter Unsalted, Highly recommend using European butter

Instructions

Add butter in a light colored saucepan and cook over medium heat.
Mix with spoon often as the butter melts, sizzles, bubbles and becomes foamy.
After about 5 minutes, the foam will start to subside and you will notice little brown specks at the bottom. The color will go from light brown to golden brown/ amber very quickly. The aroma will also change and you will be able to smell nuttiness.
As soon as you see the color change and brown specks, remove saucepan from the heat immediately and pour all of the butter and the brown milk solids into a heat-proof bowl or jar to stop the cooking process.
Allow this to cool to room temperature and then chill in a sealed container in the fridge. Enjoy.

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Notes

Store in a sealed container or jar in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.
Please use unsalted butter since salted butter becomes very foamy and too salty by the end of this process.
Once the butter becomes amber in color and starts smelling nutty, you need to remove from heat immediately and transfer to another bowl or else the cooking process will continue and this will burn.
Do not walk away while the butter is foaming and sizzling. It can burn in the blink of an eye and there is no way to fix black burnt butter.
Use a light colored saucepan so that you can see the color change and go from yellow to golden brown/ amber. This change is impossible to see in a black saucepan.
Read additional tips and variations above.

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