Spicy Sriracha Butter
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Sriracha butter is easy to make and delicious to use. It has the flavor you love and just enough heat to add some kick to everything you spread it on.
Sriracha butter is a beautiful, spicy bit of heaven. The flavor is incredible and it’s so easy to make. You can make sriracha butter quickly and easily at home. It’s delicious spread on a grilled cheese sandwich, on pasta, or even on eggs. Warning: Once you’ve tried it, you’ll want to spread it on everything!
BONUS: Packaged in pretty jars it makes a great hostess/birthday/Christmas gift!
Key ingredients
There are only two ingredients for this Sriracha butter! Here is more information on what to look for:
- Salted butter: I love the flavor of salted butter, but if you prefer unsalted then you can use that instead.
- Sriracha: I’ve only tested this recipe using sriracha. That said, another hot sauce should work well.
How to make homemade sriracha butter
Making this deliciously spicy butter is about the easiest thing in the world. Here’s what you are going to do:
- Take your butter out of the fridge and let it come to room temperature. Don’t rush this step; you want the butter nice and soft.
- Mix the sriracha into the soft butter.
- Now take that deliciousness and slather it on everything.
Ways to use sriracha butter
- Spread it on a grilled cheese sandwich.
- Toss it with spaghetti noodles.
- Let it melt on top of a bowl of vegetables.
- Created a little sriracha butter crater in mashed potatoes.
- Cook your eggs in it.
And to really take this to the next level, try making it with homemade butter!
How to soften butter quickly
If you don’t have the patience to wait for the butter to slowly come to room temperature, here’s what to do:
Cut the butter into small pieces and spread them out in a single layer on your cutting board. The small pieces will soften MUCH faster than a block of butter. Easy!
Storage
We find that it is best stored in a wide jar so you can easily scoop some out when you need it. Sriracha butter will keep well for at least a month if kept in your fridge. If you want soft sriracha butter on hand, only keep out enough that you’ll use within 2 days.
Sriracha Butter Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup salted butter (softened)
- ¼ cup sriracha
Instructions
- In a medium-sized bowl, mix together the butter with the sriracha. It takes a few minutes, so be patient.1 cup salted butter, ¼ cup sriracha
- Store the butter in the fridge. It will last for several weeks. Enjoy!
Nutrition
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Kristen, this looks amazing! The photography is so on point as is the recipe. Sriracha butter would be the perfect addition to a warm grilled cheese sandwich.
Thank you so much! It really is delicious. 🙂
Oh no … this would have gone perfectly! Good thing that garlicky pasta is a staple so you’ll have plenty more opportunities to pair it with the sriracha butter. 🙂
WOW! I am going to make this and try it on grilled cheese sandwiches.
You should! It’s so good. 🙂
We do too! And we use this butter on everything. 🙂
I love the sound of this Kristen! I’ve never seen Sriracha in a jar. Where does one find this?
Hi Lorraine,
What I’ve actually used for the sriracha butter in the photos is sabmal oelek. That was before I figured out there was a difference between that and sriracha (embarrassing!) I have made it since with actual sriracha and it works great too 🙂
The term you’re looking for is Sambal Oelek. That’s the chunky pepper sauce.
It is! I wish I had known that when writing this post (hanging head in shame 🙂 )
So… I’m loving this idea and am thinking of making (refrigerated) holiday gift jars this year. I do, however, have a question in regards to the photo you’ve included here. It looks as if there is additional particulate that I would not expect from simply blending these two ingredients. Maybe it’s an illusion, but the pic appears to have seeds and little red bits. (If I had to guess, it looks like a cheesy dip with bacon, maybe some corn, & pepper seeds!) Is this just the way it looks when you blend? Hopefully, so! I just want to make sure I’m not missing something.
Hi Lisa,
You just reminded me that I should probably update this recipe! It’s old but has been getting tons of press on Huffington Post lately.
So … I made this with the chunky sriracha that you buy in a jar with the twist off lid, rather than the stuff in a bottle that you squeeze out. It will work great with whichever kind you have in your fridge though!
Great idea about giving it away as gifts btw. I love homemade gifts for Christmas and was actually thinking of giving away some homemade sriracha myself 🙂
So are the pics above of the butter? It looks like some yummy crunchy casserole that I would love the recipe to.
If you like Sriracha butter you ought to try Sriracha Mayo….I mix it 50-50 with Cains in a restaurant style catsup bottle that lives in my fridge I can’t make a sandwich without it.
That sounds amazing!
Next time I make a sandwich there’s going to be sriracha mayo on it 🙂
New York here. What a great gift you are. I love this stuff and have always had a bottle but very few ideas about its use so the butter is being made tomorrow. Love to get some of your recipes if you’d be so kind. My bottle just sits there in the fridge with a saucy smile daring me to put it to use so finding you is a real godsend plus you look very spicy your self.
Maybe I should just move to Irwindale for the atmosphere!
What a great site!
Sounds like a great way to use up extra Sriracha – I found a recipe for making Srirach oil (basically fill an empty, non-washed bottle full of oil) and have been looking for ways to eat through my bottle so I can make it!
Sriracha oil sounds awesome! I will definitely have to try that once the bottle in the fridge is empty 🙂
You love sriracha. A woman after my own heart. I buy mine at Costco, two big 740ml bottles for $8.00 or something like that. I’ve got some recipes I’d love to share with you, do you have an email I can send them to?
Hey Doug,
Costco is awesome for buying huge quantities of things you love. I’ll be hunting down sriracha next time I’m there 🙂
I always love new recipes.