This is a list of notable butter dishes and foods in which butter is used as a primary ingredient or as a significant component of a dish or a food. Butter is a dairy product that consists of butterfat, milk proteins, and water. It is made by churning fresh or fermented cream or milk.
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Butter dishes and foods
edit- Beurre blanc – Emulsified butter sauce
- Beurre fondue – Food prepared by melting butter in water
- Beurre Maître d'Hôtel – Type of compound butter
- Beurre manié – Thickening agent
- Beurre monté – Melted butter sauce
- Beurre noir – French butter dish
- Beurre noisette – Sauce used in French cuisine
- Bread and butter pudding – Traditional sweet British pudding
- Buttered rice – Burmese butter and lentil rice
- Butter cake – Type of cake
- Butter chicken – Indian gravy chicken dish prepared with butter
- Butter cookie – Cookie originating in Denmark
- Butter pecan – Flavor of ice cream, cakes, and cookies
- Butter pie – English savoury pie
- Butter tart – Canadian dessert pastry
- Butter tea – South Asian and Tibetan drink mainly consisting of butter churned with tea
- Butterbrot – Buttered bread, a German staple food
- Buttercream – Sweet filling made with butter
- Butterkuchen – German butter cake
- Buttermilk pie – Type of desperation pie
- Butterscotch – Type of confectionery
- Buttery (bread) – Savoury bread roll originating from Aberdeen, Scotland.
- Chicken Kiev – Chicken dish associated with Russian and Ukrainian cuisines
- Compound butter – Butter mixed with other ingredients, or beurre composé
- Cookie butter – Food paste made from speculoos cookie crumb
- Croissant – Flaky, crescent-shaped pastry
- Danish pastry – Multilayered, laminated sweet pastry
- Deep-fried butter – Snack food made of butter
- Egg butter – Mixture of butter and chopped hard boiled eggs, eaten in Finland and Estonia
- Garlic butter – Compound butter, or beurre à la bourguignonne
- Gooey butter cake – Cake originally from St. Louis, Missouri
- Hard sauce – Dessert sauce of sugar, butter, and spirits
- Hollandaise sauce – Sauce made of egg, butter, and lemon
- Karelian pasty – Traditional food from Karelia
- Kouign-amann – Breton pastry
- Linzer torte – Austrian pastry
- Pain aux raisins – French pastry
- Pozharsky cutlet – Russian dish of breaded ground meat
- Popcorn – Type of corn kernel which expands and puffs up on heating
- Puff pastry – Light, flaky pastry
- Remonce – Traditional Danish pastry filling
- Torpedo dessert – Bread roll filled with pastry cream
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A layer cake with buttercream icing and decorations
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A Butter tart is a type of small pastry tart highly regarded in Canadian cuisine and considered one of Canada's quintessential desserts. The tart consists of butter, sugar, syrup, and egg filled into a flaky pastry and baked until the filling is semi-solid with a crunchy top.[2]
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Karelian pasties topped with egg butter
See also
edit- List of dairy products
- List of pastries
- List of spreads
- Mound of Butter (Vollon) – famous painting depicting butter
References
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Butter-based food.
- ^ Moore, Natalie Y. (15 February 2006). "Buttermilk Pie: An Unexpectedly Sweet Treat". NPR. NPR. Retrieved 2013-05-13.
- ^ Presenter:Peter Gzowski Guests:Max Burns, Marion Kane, Charles Pachter (December 5, 1991). "What makes a great butter tart?". Morningside. Moose Jaw. CBC Radio. CBC Radio One.