Whipped Miso Butter
Miso butter is one of my all-time favorite kinds of butter. It’s salty, umami, and perfect on so many things. Since the butter is whipped, it’s light, airy, and melts beautifully. You can try it on toast or lather it on seared steak. One of my favorite things is to melt it and drizzle it on top of jammy eggs and yogurt.
How to Make Miso Butter
So, in this recipe, you aren’t making butter from scratch. You use already-made butter and miso and combine the two by melting and blending in a blender. At this point, you can periodically mix it as it cools and solidifies, but I prefer to whip the miso butter.
After you blend the melted butter and miso, place it in a bowl over another filled with ice. This will help cool it down faster as you whip it with a hand mixer. Whipped peaks will hold in the butter as the butter begins to solidify, and that’s how you know it’s done.
My Miso Butter Recipe
You only need three ingredients to make whipped miso butter: butter, miso, and olive oil. I’ve heard of people trying sesame oil to make miso butter. While I haven’t tried it, that is probably a delicious alternative to olive oil.
For this miso, I used homemade red bean and garlic miso that I teach students how to make in the Fermented Food Semester online course. It’s by far my favorite miso to make. So my butter has hints of garlic in it too. So good.
The Best Way to Whip Butter
After you blend the melted butter and miso, place it in a bowl over another filled with ice. This will help cool it down faster as you whip it with a hand mixer.
Whipped peaks will hold in the butter as the butter begins to solidify, and that’s how you know it’s done. After I scoop the butter into a container and place it in the fridge, I like to take a piece of bread and clean off the mixer attachments for a lovely taste test.
You can use a stand mixer to whip the butter, but you probably can’t set it over ice. So it will take longer than if you use a hand mixer.
More Recipes to Try
- How to Make One Year Fermented Miso
- Homemade Cultured Butter with Lemon and Herbs
- Oven-Baked Marinated Chicken Wings with Kimchi and Miso Sauce
- Jammy Eggs with Greek Yogurt and Miso Butter
Easy Whipped Miso Butter Recipe
It’s salty, umami, and perfect on so many things. With my whipped miso butter recipe, you’ll learn how to make miso butter, the most delicious butter you’ll ever try.
- Prep: 10 minutes
- Cook: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 cups butter
- 1/4 cup miso
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
Instructions
- Add the butter and the miso to a small saucepan and heat until the butter is just melted.
- Combine the melted butter, miso, and olive oil in a blender and blend until completely smooth.
- Pour the mixture into a large mixing bowl.
- Set the mixing bowl over another bowl filled with ice.
- Using a hand mixer, whip the butter as it cools.
- Transfer to an airtight container and store in the fridge.
Sounds delicious! Just a question. Is the olive oil incorporated as the butter is whipped or drizzled on top before serving?
The olive oil is incorporated. Thanks for pointing this out! I updated the recipe card. You can mix it in the blender step or add it in before you start whipping.
Have you ever tried double the amount of miso?