This 2-ingredient miso butter is wealthy, nutty, and filled with umami taste. It immediately upgrades baked potatoes, roasted greens, pasta, and extra!

This miso butter recipe is 2-ingredient magic. A easy combination of softened butter and white miso paste, it’s wealthy, creamy, and bursting with umami. I like maintaining it readily available (or whipping it up on the final minute) to provide easy meals an prompt taste improve. I’m at the moment obsessive about miso butter on a baked candy potato, but it surely’s additionally great on roasted greens, noodles, and extra.
In case you’re used to consuming miso in miso soup, the mix of miso and butter would possibly shock you. However belief me—when you do this recipe, it’ll make good sense. The calmly candy, savory miso and velvety butter are a match made in heaven.

Varieties of Miso Paste
Miso is a Japanese fermented soybean paste. Search for it within the refrigerated part of your grocery retailer. Although numerous kinds of miso exist in Japan, within the US, you’ll probably discover these three varieties:
- White miso (shiro miso) – Fermented with rice for much less time than darker varieties, it has a light, barely candy, and salty taste.
- Yellow miso – Yellow miso is made by fermenting soybeans with barley. It’s bolder than white miso however nonetheless has slightly sweetness.
- Pink miso – Pink miso is probably the most pungent—and least candy—of those three forms of miso. It’s fermented with barley or different grains for longer than the paler varieties.
I like to recommend utilizing white miso on this recipe. Its sweeter, milder taste pairs splendidly with the butter! If it’s essential to substitute one other sort of miso, begin with half the quantity and add extra to style.
Learn how to Make Miso Butter
Making this compound butter couldn’t be simpler: simply combine 1 half white miso paste with 2 elements unsalted butter! You’ll find yourself with a creamy, thick paste.
Two ideas:
- Ensure that the butter is at room temperature in order that the 2 components are straightforward to mix. You’ll be able to combine them with a spatula or mash with a fork in case you have pockets of miso or butter which might be tough to interrupt up.
- Use unsalted butter. Miso has a reasonably excessive salt content material by itself. Ensure that to make use of unsalted butter for a balanced taste. Salted butter will likely be too salty right here.
Discover the entire recipe with measurements under.

Learn how to Use Miso Butter
The choices are infinite! Listed here are a couple of concepts to get you began:
How do you want to make use of this seasoned butter? Let me know within the feedback!
Storage Ideas
In case you’re not utilizing the butter immediately, dollop it onto a sheet of parchment paper, then roll it right into a log.
Retailer within the fridge for as much as every week, slicing off pats as wanted.
For longer storage, freeze for as much as 3 months.

Extra Compound Butter Recipes
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Miso Butter
Serves 6
This miso butter recipe immediately upgrades greens, potatoes, pasta, and extra! Simple to make with 2 components, it is wealthy, creamy, and stuffed with umami taste.
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In a small bowl, stir collectively the softened butter and miso paste.
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Serve instantly, or scoop the miso butter onto a bit of parchment paper or plastic wrap and roll right into a log. Twist the ends to shut. Retailer within the fridge for as much as every week or freeze for as much as 3 months. Discover serving solutions within the weblog publish above.
