Chef Tom ‘Splains Brown Butter

Brown Butter is the magic flavor bomb no one seems to appreciate. Until they taste it. Nothing matches the unbelievably rich, caramel, nutty flavor of browned butter. Elevate a batch of chocolate chip cookies, or enrich a sauce for pasta.

Brown butter is regular butter that has been “browned.” What you are doing is cooking the butter slightly past its melting point, just long enough to toast the milk solids in the butter. By doing this, you’re creating butter magic! It releases a nutty flavor in the butter that adds an extra layer when you replace regular butter in recipes.