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: it's addictive!
Welcome to the 7th edition of Throw Back Thursdays here on TEM! The posts in this #tbt series – like this Sriracha butter – have become some of my favourites.
Once a month I go through The Endless Meal to find old recipes that I want to re-share with you. Most of these recipes are hidden far away on TEM and have some pretty atrocious photos attached to them.
The photos of this spicy Sriracha butter are some of the worst, or depending on how you look at it, most hilarious, photos on the blog. Seriously, they're so bad I can hardly believe I'm sharing them with you. But we're friends, right? So I figured it's ok if you laugh at me.
I've hidden them after the recipe so you'll have to scroll down to have your chuckle. 🙂
Original post date: February 22nd, 2012
The sun is shining into my apartment, and I've got the heat cranked up. If I ignore the calendar at the bottom of my computer screen, I could almost believe it was summer. This is the time of the year on Canada's west coast where spring is just around the corner. This week I've seen crocuses pop their heads out of the chilly soil and tiny buds start to form on the toughest trees. It's making me dream of beaches and bike rides and lazy afternoons spent sitting on a patio sipping chilled white wine. While I'll likely ride my bike down to the beach today, I'll be bundled in a sweater and jacket. It's not nearly as carefree as summer.
As I wait for the sun to warm me up, I'll keep slathering everything I make in sriracha butter. This spicy butter seems to know no limits. I've used it to coat spaghetti, spread it on grilled cheese sandwiches, let it melt on top of a bowl of vegetables and created a little sriracha butter crater in my mashed potatoes. I think I'll use it tonight when I make a white bean and chorizo sausage cassoulet. Try making it with homemade butter!
If you make this Spicy Sriracha Butter make sure to snap a pic and tag @theendlessmeal on Instagram so I can like and comment on them. I love seeing TEM recipes you create!
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Spicy Sriracha Butter
Yield: 1 1/4 cups 1x
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You can make sriracha butter quickly and easily at home. It's great spread on a grilled cheese sandwich, on pasta or even on eggs. Warning: it's addictive!
Ingredients
- 1 cup salted butter, softened
- 1/4 cup sriracha
Instructions
- In a medium sized bowl mix together the butter with the sriracha. It takes a few minutes, so be patient. Store in the fridge for several weeks
- Enjoy!
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Here are the hilarious (embarrassing!) old photos. I hope you're laughing at them as much as I am!
If you want to learn about some of the tricks I did to improve my food photography, check out the post 10 Food Photography Tips for New Food Bloggers and The Food Photography Equipment I Use.
Some more tasty recipes with sriracha
Long Green Beans with Anchovies and Sriracha
Thai Coconut Turkey Soup
Grilled Cheese and Apple Sandwich with Sriracha Butter
Soy Ginger Noodles
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Haley D Williams says
March 10, 2016 at 4:14 pmKristen, 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.
Kristen says
March 13, 2016 at 10:21 amThank you so much! It really is delicious. 🙂
Abby ( says
March 5, 2016 at 11:03 amWOW! I am going to make this and try it on grilled cheese sandwiches.
Kristen says
March 5, 2016 at 6:44 pmYou should! It’s so good. 🙂
Jeff the Chef says
March 4, 2016 at 11:01 amDarn it! I just made a really austere garlic pasta dinner last night, and this would have been perfect for it! No worries, though – it’s one of my go-to weeknight dishes, so I’ll have an opportunity soon enough. Thanks!
Kristen says
March 8, 2016 at 12:00 pmOh 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. 🙂
Kelly says
March 3, 2016 at 10:44 pmWhat a great idea! We love sriracha and would probably want to slather this butter on everything!
Kristen says
March 4, 2016 at 6:58 amWe do too! And we use this butter on everything. 🙂
Lorraine says
March 6, 2014 at 9:32 amI love the sound of this Kristen! I’ve never seen Sriracha in a jar. Where does one find this?
Kristen says
March 10, 2014 at 5:40 pmHi 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 🙂
Rex Miller says
February 10, 2014 at 10:48 amThe term you’re looking for is Sambal Oelek. That’s the chunky pepper sauce.
Kristen says
February 12, 2014 at 2:02 pmIt is! I wish I had known that when writing this post (hanging head in shame 🙂 )
LisaP says
November 29, 2013 at 8:36 amSo… 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.
Kristen says
November 29, 2013 at 12:42 pmHi 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 🙂
Kathy says
November 24, 2013 at 7:01 amSo are the pics above of the butter? It looks like some yummy crunchy casserole that I would love the recipe to.
Tony says
November 11, 2013 at 1:32 pmIf 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.
Kristen says
November 13, 2013 at 6:11 pmThat sounds amazing!
Next time I make a sandwich there’s going to be sriracha mayo on it 🙂
Michael says
October 31, 2013 at 3:14 pmNew 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!
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Michael says
October 31, 2013 at 3:00 pmWhat a great site!
emily (a nutritionist eats) says
October 9, 2012 at 8:12 pmOMG, you are a genius!!! Love this idea and love your pictures, gorgeous.
Kristen says
October 11, 2012 at 9:11 amHey Emily,
Thank you so much!! It’s pretty hard to go wrong with srircha, I love that stuff! 🙂
Sara C says
July 24, 2012 at 3:04 pmSounds 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!
Kristen says
July 25, 2012 at 9:36 amSriracha oil sounds awesome! I will definitely have to try that once the bottle in the fridge is empty 🙂
Doug says
February 28, 2012 at 3:47 pmYou 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?
Kristen says
February 29, 2012 at 7:07 pmHey 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. That’s super great of you to share some of yours with me! My email address is [email protected]