Vegan Butter Infused with Basil and Lime

How do you preserve basil? Add it to store-bought vegan butter and freeze it. This infused vegan butter will last for months. Use it in pasta or appetizers

Do you find your fresh basil going limp or about to die?  You spent a fortune on it or your friend gave you a whole bunch of it from their garden. 

You would hate to see it go to waste.

I found that the best way to preserve basil!

How to preserve fresh basil

• Put it into compound vegan butter
• Make pesto out of it
• Puree them and put them in ice cubes (like I did with pumpkin puree)
• Freeze the basil leaves in a freezer friendly bag
• Put it into a pickle veggies recipe like tomato pickles or veggie pickles.
• Put them into a compost pile (if they are starting to go bad)

Put vegan butter into…

• Herby, buttery pasta sauce
• Butternut squash risotto
• Buttered radish (radish chips)
• Garlic butter recipes
• Mexican corn on the cob
• Air Fryer Garlic Bread

Making vegan compound butter

Prepare: remove 1 + 1/2 vegan butter sticks from the fridge and let it warm up to room temperature

1) Take 2 cloves of garlic and slice them thinly

2) Add 1/4 tsp of coconut oil to these garlic and mix well. Coconut butter is better for roasting garlic in this recipe because it freezes better than olive oil

3) Place the garlic on a baking tray and roast in your mini oven.  Roast until they are light brown.  Mini ovens are different for everyone, so, choose a lower temperature like 200°.

4) While the garlic is roasting, cut the stalks off from 8 leaves of basil.  Chop the basil as finely as you can

5) Take half of a lime and juice it. Set aside

6) In a mini processor, add the chopped basil, roasted garlic, lime juice, 1 Tbsp of dried oregano, 1 Tbsp of parsley and the vegan butter.  You can slice the butter into smaller pieces to make it easier to add into the processor

7) Blend on low speed until everything is blended.  It will have a creamy consistency and that’s ok.

8) Cut a long piece of parchment paper.  Transfer the basil infused butter to the parchment.  Make a log shape, but, it doesn’t have to be a perfect log shape

9) If the butter is too creamy to roll, put the parchment paper and butter into the freezer for a few minutes

10) Remove it and roll it into a log and place it in the freezer for about two hours

Personally, I like leaving it in the parchment paper and in the freezer.  It is very easy to melt pieces of it when I need it.

Note: Do not add salt to the butter because the recipe it will be used in will have its own salt requirement

I am a huge fan of infusing butters. Recently, I made a lemon balm infused butter that is simply heavenly!

Basil and Lime Infused Vegan Butter

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How do you preserve basil? Add it to vegan butter and freeze it. Use store bought vegan butter, add fresh basil. Use it in pasta or appetizers in the winter

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Prep Time 2 mins

Cook Time 13 mins

Total Time 15 mins

Course Condiment

Cuisine American, Italian

Servings 2 cups

Calories 518 kcal

Ingredients

  

• 1.5 sticks vegan butter
• 2 cloves garlic thinly sliced
• 1/4 tsp coconut oil
• 8 leaves basil fresh
• 1/2 lime juiced
• 1 tsp lime zest
• 1 Tbsp oregano dried
• 1 Tbsp parsley dried

Instructions

 

Prepare: remove 1 + 1/2 vegan butter sticks from the fridge and let it warm up to room temperature

• Preheat mini oven to 200°F
• Mix coconut oil and garlic
• Place the garlic on a baking tray and roast until light brown
• While the garlic is roasting, chop the basil as finely as possible
• In a mini processor, add all the ingredients
• Blend on low speed until everything is blended. It will have a creamy consistency and that’s ok
• Cut a long piece of parchment paper. Transfer the basil infused butter to the parchment. Make a log shape, but, it doesn’t have to be a perfect log shape
• If the butter is too creamy to roll, put the parchment paper and butter into the freezer for a few minutes
• Remove it and roll it into a log and place it in the freezer for about two hours
• Keep the butter in the freezer in a parchment paper

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Notes

Do not add salt to the butter because the recipe it will be used in will have its own salt requirement

Nutrition info is approximate

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Recipe inspiration

I bought this recipe for my angel hair pomodoro because basil and tomatoes were meant to be together forever.  But, I knew I wasn’t going to be able to use up the whole recipe.

“What to do, what to do with all these basil?” I kept asking myself?

Then, I remembered that Martha Stewart had a butter recipe using basil and loved it.  I took her idea and turned it into a vegan recipe with a few added ingredients.

Voila!

I had the perfect butter recipe ever!

The best part is that this butter will last for months and your recipes will always have the aroma of fresh basil.