What to cook with buttermilk

73 recipes in the Saucepan catalog use buttermilk. 9 of them are built around it. It turns up most in American, Irish and Southern recipes.

recipes use it
73
are built around it
9
median total time
55 min
ready in 30 minutes or less
8

Recipes built around buttermilk

With buttermilk, in 30 minutes or less

What goes with buttermilk

Ingredients that most often share a recipe with buttermilk, out of 73 recipes.

  • Eggs62% of recipes
  • Butter56% of recipes
  • Cornmeal11% of recipes
  • Vanilla extract26% of recipes
  • Garlic powder18% of recipes
  • Cocoa powder11% of recipes
  • Onion powder11% of recipes
  • Honey11% of recipes

How much recipes use

Across 61 recipes that give an amount, the median is 1 cup. Half of them fall between ¾ to 1¾ cups.

Where buttermilk shows up

Cuisines

  • American36
  • Irish11
  • Southern6
  • South African5

Courses

  • Bread15
  • Dinner14
  • Dessert14

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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.