Cowboy Butter: A Delicious Loaded Butter Meat Dipping Sauce Recipe! (2024)

This cowboy butter is an easy-to-make dipping sauce recipe that is perfect for pairing with your family's favorite main course protein! It's loaded with garlic, shallot, herbs, spices, lemon juice, Dijon mustard, and horseradish. In just minutes, you'll have flavor-packed butter sauce that everyone will be obsessed with!

Easy Cowboy Butter Recipe

This delicious cowboy butter sauce is an easy and quick way to dress up any meat dinner! Melted butter is blended with lemon juice, minced garlic, minced shallot, Dijon mustard, and horseradish, then stirred with herbs and spices!

It's an exceptionally tasty condiment to pair with steak, pork, chicken, as well as game meat. Once you see how simple this recipe is, you'll have yourself a new go-to sauce recipe that you can whip up in a flash!

🥘 Cowboy Butter Ingredients

This recipe only requires a handful of basic ingredients! They're easy to find at the grocery store, or you might even have them in your kitchen already.

• Butter - 1cup ofbutter(melted).
• Lemon Juice - 2tablespoons oflemon juice(about ½ a large lemon, squeezed).
• Garlic - 2tablespoons ofgarlic(minced).
• Shallot - ¼cupshallot(minced, about 1 small shallot).
• Dijon Mustard - 2tablespoons ofDijon mustard.
• Horseradish - 1tablespoon ofhorseradish(prepared).
• Fresh Parsley - 2tablespoons offresh parsley(chopped, or 1 tablespoon freeze-dried or dried parsley).
• Dried Chives - 1tablespoon ofdried chives.
• Dried Thyme - 1teaspoon ofdried thyme.
• Paprika - ¼teaspoon ofpaprika.
• Salt & Pepper - ⅛teaspoon ofeach, salt & pepper(to taste).
• Cayenne Pepper - 1pinch ofcayenne pepper.

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🔪 How To Make Cowboy Butter

There are only 3 simple steps to making this irresistible dipping sauce! Grab a small mixing bowl, a silicone spatula set (or whisk), and some measuring spoons to get started.

1 batch of homemade cowboy butter will yield 1 serving. You can easily double or triple the recipe depending on the amount of meat you cook!

1. Stir. In a small mixing bowl, stir or whisk the 1 cup of melted butter, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, 2 tablespoons of minced garlic, ¼ cup of minced shallot, 2 tablespoons of Dijon mustard, and 1 tablespoon of prepared horseradish until well blended.*Use an immersion blender or blender to make your sauce creamy if desired.
2. Add ingredients. Add in the 2 tablespoons of parsley, 1 tablespoon of dried chives, 1 teaspoon of thyme, ¼ teaspoon of paprika, ⅛ teaspoon of salt & pepper, and 1 pinch of cayenne pepper, and stir until evenly distributed in the dipping sauce.
3. Serve. Serve with steak or your favorite meats.

This tasty butter sauce is perfect for dipping your favorite meats, spreading on rolls, or drizzling over roasted vegetables! I like to serve it as a steak sauce when I make grilled T-bone steaks. Enjoy!

💭 Angela's Tips & Recipe Notes

• You may use softened butter in place of melted butter for a thicker sauce or butter spread.
• I recommend using good-quality butter for the best results. European butter brands like Kerrygold, Plugra, Echire, Wuthrich, Beurdell, or any European-style variety will have a higher fat content and will yield the best results.
• If you want a thicker sauce, add more Dijon mustard. For a thinner sauce, add more butter.

🥡 Storing

Store your leftover cowboy butter in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.

Place cowboy butter in a freezer-safe container in the freezer for up to 4 months. When you are ready to serve, thaw your cowboy butter in the fridge overnight to enjoy the next day.

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