Recipe for homemade ramson butter

Homemade ramson butter is together with ramson pesto one of those recipes that is absolutely fantastic to make if you have freshly picked ramsons. Ramson butter is incredibly easy to conjure up if you manage to get your hands on fresh ramsons. It only contains three ingredients: butter, shallots and salt. Once you have washed your picked ramsons, simply chop them finely before mixing them with soft butter and seasoning with salt. You can use regular butter for the recipe, which you simply let soften by leaving it on the kitchen counter for an hour. However, if you want to make a really luxurious ramson butter, you can try making your own homemade butter from scratch.   

Spiced butter with ramsons

The delicious ramson butter is a spice butter that can be used in countless ways. Use it just like garlic butter or chive butter, over a steak or with potatoes. Or use it for roasting meat or . You can also serve your herb butter with ramsons on freshly baked bread (maybe baked with sourdough, if you want it to be extra delicious) as a simple snack before dinner or as an addition to a larger buffet. 

TIP: Try using your herb butter with ramsons in this delicious pull apart bread.

Where and how do you pick ramsons?

You can find wild garlic in the Danish forests in the spring. They grow on the forest floor, where there is moisture, shade and good soil. When you go wild garlic hunting, it is important that you do not confuse wild garlic with lily of the valley, which is very poisonous. However, it is quite easy to tell them apart if you use your sense of smell. If you take a wild garlic leaf and rub it between your fingers, you will be able to smell a strong onion scent, a bit like garlic or chives. In addition, I would also recommend that you go a little further into the forest, away from cars, away from roads and paths, where dogs may be walking and may have urinated on them. 

Can herb butter be frozen?

You can easily freeze your ramson butter. Just like other spiced butter, it's a good idea to put the butter roll with baking paper in a freezer bag and then freeze it. However, you can also cut the roll into smaller pieces and freeze them individually. This is a good idea if, for example, you want to use ramson to add flavor to dishes where butter is used for frying. Then you can easily take a piece of frozen ramson butter from the freezer and throw it directly into the pan.