Cowboy Butter Steak Toast | Food Wishes

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Hello, this is Chef John from foodwishes.com with cowboy butter steak toast.

That's right. If you want to be a cowboy, you're going to have to learn how to ride a horse, how to rope cattle, and of course, how to make a delicious compound butter that's perfect to serve with steak. And since I'm not a cowboy, I only know how to do one of those three things, but it is the most useful one and the most delicious. And to get started, we'll take a stick of room temperature unsalted butter.

And we will add in a whole bunch of finely crushed

garlic, as well as some freshly grated lemon zest, followed by a little bit of Dijon mustard. And once those things have been transferred in, we'll season this up with some salt, followed by some chili flakes. And I'm using Aleppo since they don't have any seeds. We will also do some smoked paprika, as well as some freshly ground black pepper. And of course, a little bit of cayenne. Oh yeah, cowboys love cayenne.

And that brings us up to the scene where we toss in everything that's green, including some fresh thyme, some finely sliced chives, and then last but not least, a little bit of freshly chopped Italian parsley. And that's it. We'll take a spoon and kind of break this up.

And then eventually stir and smear it all together. And by the way, even though we added some lemon zest, we are also going to add a little bit of lemon juice to this. But if we added it with everything else, those pieces of butter are just going to slide around the bowl.