Butter on bread is good, but have you tried Smoked Garlic Butter? You don’t even need a smoker to make it, just a grill. For more ideas on what to eat with this, check out all of our grilling recipes.
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Whenever I get the chance, I like to dress things up a little bit. Sure, we could serve butter with bread. But when you’re serving a good bread, you want to serve a good butter. And I don’t mean an expensive butter. I mean a dressed up smoked garlic butter made on the grill.
Yes, that sounds extra. I get it. But trust me, this butter is so worth it.
It takes about twenty minutes to prep and cook on the grill, but then a couple hours to let it cool and complete.
This Smoked Garlic Butter Recipe is made using a gas grill, not a smoker.
If you’re new to grilling, be sure to check out our Gas Grilling Tips For Beginners post before you start cooking.
Smoked Garlic Butter Recipe
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Smoked Garlic Butter Ingredients:
You can get the full list of ingredients with measurements in the recipe card below.
- Unsalted butter – You’re going to add salt, so you don’t want the butter to already start with salt.
- Garlic – Fresh garlic that you grate yourself adds more flavor than minced, jarred garlic.
- Seasoning – You’ll need salt and garlic powder.
How To Make Smoked Garlic Butter:
Fill a pellet smoker tube with hardwood pellets.
Any flavor of pellets is fine.
Lift the grill’s grates and put the pellet smoker tube under the grates. Put the grates back in place.
Pre-heat the grill to about 350 F. The grill’s temperature will fluctuate, but you want to try to keep it around 350 F.
Cut the butter into eight pieces and put them in a grill-safe pan.
Grate four cloves of garlic and add them to the pan.
Quick note: We use a microplane grater to grate the garlic. You want to use that, or something similar, to finely grate the garlic.
You don’t want to chop it because large chunks of garlic won’t distribute evenly.
Sprinkle the salt on top.
Add the garlic powder.
Put the pan on the grill and close the grill.
Cook it about 15 minutes, stirring the butter and checking on it every three minutes.
You want make sure that the garlic is cooking and the butter isn’t burning.
When the garlic is browned and cooked through, and the butter is completely bubbly, remove it from the heat.
Let it sit and cool for about two hours until the butter is coagulated, but not completely hardened.
Scoop the butter into a piece of parchment paper.
Roll it into a log and let it sit in the fridge overnight.
The next day, serve it with your favorite bread.
Smoked Garlic Butter: Frequently Asked Questions
You don’t need a smoker to make smoked butter. We don’t have one. We simply use our pellet smoker tube to turn our propane grill into a smoker.
Store smoked butter in an airtight container in the fridge.
Smoked garlic butter can last pretty much indefinitely in the fridge. We’ve kept some for months without it going bad, as long as you rewrap it and keep it in an airtight container.
I’ve seen sites online reference the USDA saying salted butter can last up to five months, provided it is kept wrapped all that time. I can’t find that specifically on the USDA’s website, so do with that as you will.
What To Serve With Smoked Garlic Butter:
Smoked Garlic Butter would also be a really good compliment to Grilled Corn on the Cob or Baked Potatoes on the grill. Plus, since you’re already making this butter on the grill, adding the corn or potato is easy.
We served our smoked garlic butter in these photos with a loaf of sourdough bread. The smoked garlic butter spread on really easily when the bread was warm or fresh out of the toaster. It still pairs really well with cold bread.
Smoked Garlic Butter
Butter on bread is good, but have you tried Smoked Garlic Butter? You don’t even need a smoker to make it, just a grill.
Ingredients
- 1 stick unsalted butter
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
Instructions
- Fill a pellet smoker tube with hardwood pellets. Lift the grill’s grates and put the pellet smoker tube under the grates. Put the grates back in place.
- Pre-heat the grill to about 350 F.
- Cut the butter into eight pieces and put them in a grill-safe pan.
- Grate four cloves of garlic and add them to the pan.
- Sprinkle the salt on top.
- Add the garlic powder.
- Put the pan on the grill and close the grill. Cook it about 15 minutes, stirring the butter and checking on it every three minutes.
- When the garlic is browned and cooked through, and the butter is completely bubbly, remove it from the heat.
- Let it sit and cool for about two hours until the butter is coagulated, but not completely hardened. Scoop the butter into a piece of parchment paper. Roll it into a log and let it sit in the fridge overnight.
Notes
The grill’s temperature will fluctuate, but you want to try to keep it around 350 F.
Nutrition Information
Yield
16Serving Size
1Amount Per Serving Calories 52Total Fat 6gSaturated Fat 4gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 2gCholesterol 15mgSodium 34mgCarbohydrates 0gFiber 0gSugar 0gProtein 0g
Have you made this Smoked Garlic Butter Recipe? Let us know in the comments.
Laurie
Thursday 28th of July 2022
This sounds like it would be delicious on toasted bread! I love roasted garlic. Gonna have to try this one.
Jhuls @ The Not So Creative Cook
Wednesday 27th of July 2022
Sounds interesting and yum!
Patricia
Friday 22nd of July 2022
Honestly, I've never heard of a pellet smoker tube, but will be on the lookout for one! I cannot wait to try this recipe - sounds wonderful (I'm a garlic fiend!) AND easy to make.
Jere Cassidy
Friday 22nd of July 2022
I don't have a smoker, but I put my cast iron skillet on the grill and made the recipe that way. This butter is amazing and perfect on top of so many things, including my everything bagel!
Donna B Reidland
Thursday 21st of July 2022
This sounds delicious!