Butter Canola Spread Recipe 425

Steps:

• Leave butter to soften for several hours or overnight. Blend together butter, oil, and salt. Pour into container and refrigerate.

Steps:

• In a lidded, plastic storage container stir butter until it has a smooth, frosting-like consistency.
• Slowly, one tablespoon at a time, stir in the first 1/2 cup of oil; mix until smooth. Stir in the remaining oil a little more quickly, mixing well.
• Refrigerate for 3 hours, or until set.
• Store in refrigerator. If the 'butter' melts after being left out, refrigerate to restore solidified quality.

Steps:

• 1. Allow the butter to soften completely, it needs to be very soft.
• 2. Blend the butter, canola oil and salt. The key is whipping air into the butter to get it fluffy. You can I use a handheld Baun type stick mixer for this task.Or a hand mixer or blender or stand mixer would work as well.
• 3. It is at this step I add things to flavor the butter. Herbs, garlic, fruit etc. Depending on what I am adding it can be by hand or with the mixer on. Usually do it in the container it is going in if it is just folded in.
• 4. Pour into containers and refrigerate or freeze. It will keep the fridge as long as the expiration date on the butter you use. So I put in smaller containers and freeze some as usually there is just me at home.
• 5. It will get thin if you leave it out, but will firm right back up in the refrigerator.
• 6. Remember do not use in recipes won't work well. I do use it for cooking eggs and sauteing things calling for butter sometimes.

Steps:

• In a food processor, process the room temperature butter for a couple of seconds.
• With the machine running, slowly pour in the oil, then the water in a thin stream to allow the butter to absorb the liquids (this may take several minutes of pulsing and the mixture will be very "loose" like a pudding texture).
• Pour into a crock or bowl.
• Freeze or refrigerate until it firms up.