What to cook with butter

1,204 recipes in the Saucepan catalog use butter. 44 of them are built around it. It turns up most in American, French and Italian recipes.

recipes use it
1,204
are built around it
44
median total time
1 hr
ready in 30 minutes or less
223

Recipes built around butter

With butter, in 30 minutes or less

What goes with butter

Ingredients that most often share a recipe with butter, out of 1,204 recipes.

How much recipes use

Across 541 recipes that give an amount, the median is 2 tablespoons. Half of them fall between 2 to 4 tablespoons.

Where butter shows up

Cuisines

  • American255
  • French63
  • Italian62
  • Irish42

Courses

  • Dessert368
  • Dinner294
  • Breakfast144

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Counted from 5,756 public recipes, updated 2026-11-04. A recipe is built around an ingredient when it is in the title or among the first two lines of the ingredient list.