Drawn Butter

Name: Drawn Butter
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 3
Cuisine: american
Ingredients: 1 cup unsalted butter, cubed

Prep Time5 min
Total Time20 min
Makes3/4 cup

By Soo Kim

Seafood tower recipes: beer clams drizzled with drawn butter

Produced by Aimee Nishitoba; Photography by Carmen Cheung; Food Styling by Matthew Kimura; Prop Styling by Madeleine Johari; Illustrations by Emily Chu.

In this seafood dipping staple, butter is heated to remove the solids.—Soo Kim

Ingredients

1 cup unsalted butter, cubed

Instructions

Melt butter in a saucepan over low, without stirring, until it foams and solids sink, 10 min. Remove from heat and let cool for 5 min. Skim off foam and discard. Pour into a ramekin, leaving solids in the saucepan. Serve warm.

Kitchen tip

Add 1 minced garlic clove for a little kick.

Get more recipes to send the New Year off in style with our guide to building an epic seafood tower.

Soo Kim

Soo Kim is a professional recipe developer, recipe writer and bonafide fried egg aficionado.

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