List of butter dishes

This is a list of notable butter dishes and foods in which butter is used as a primary ingredient or as a significant component of a dish or a food. Butter is a dairy product that consists of butterfat, milk proteins, and water. It is made by churning fresh or fermented cream or milk.

The Indian dish butter chicken is rich in butter and cream.

Bread and butter pudding served with custard

Butter dishes and foods

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Buttermilk pie is a traditional pie of the southern United States.

A pastry with a filling of remonce

• Beurre blanc – Emulsified butter sauce
• Beurre fondue – Food prepared by melting butter in water
• Beurre Maître d'Hôtel – Type of compound butter
• Beurre manié – Thickening agent
• Beurre monté – Melted butter sauce
• Beurre noir – French butter dish
• Beurre noisette – Sauce used in French cuisine
• Bread and butter pudding – Traditional sweet British pudding
• Buttered rice – Burmese butter and lentil ricePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Butter cake – Type of cake
• Butter chicken – Indian gravy chicken dish prepared with butter
• Butter cookie – Cookie originating in Denmark
• Butter pecan – Flavor of ice cream, cakes, and cookies
• Butter pie – English savoury pie
• Butter tart – Canadian dessert pastry
• Butter tea – South Asian and Tibetan drink
• Butterbrot – Buttered bread, a German staple food
• Buttercream – Sweet filling made with butter
• Butterkuchen – German butter cake
• Buttermilk pie – Type of desperation pie
• Butterscotch – Type of confectionery
• Buttery (bread) – Savoury bread roll originating from Aberdeen, Scotland.
• Chicken Kiev – Chicken dish associated with Russian and Ukrainian cuisines
• Compound butter – Butter mixed with other ingredients, or beurre composé
• Cookie butter – Food paste made from speculoos cookie crumb
• Croissant – Crescent-shaped viennoiserie pastry
• Danish pastry – Multilayered, laminated sweet pastry
• Deep-fried butter – Snack food made of butter
• Egg butter – Mixture of butter and chopped hard boiled eggs, eaten in Finland and Estonia
• Garlic butter – Compound butter, or beurre à la bourguignonne
• Gooey butter cake – Cake originally from St. Louis, Missouri
• Hard sauce – Dessert sauce of sugar, butter, and spirits
• Hollandaise sauce – Sauce made of egg, butter, and lemon
• Karelian pasty – Traditional food from Karelia
• Kouign-amann – Breton pastry
• Linzer torte – Austrian pastry
• Pain aux raisins – French pastry
• Pozharsky cutlet – Russian dish of breaded ground meat
• Popcorn – Type of corn kernel which expands and puffs up on heating
• Puff pastry – Light, flaky pastry
• Remonce – Traditional Danish pastry filling
• Torpedo dessert – Bread roll filled with pastry cream

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  A layer cake with buttercream icing and decorations
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  A Butter tart is a type of small pastry tart highly regarded in Canadian cuisine and considered one of Canada's quintessential desserts. The tart consists of butter, sugar, syrup, and egg filled into a flaky pastry and baked until the filling is semi-solid with a crunchy top.
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  Butter tea is prepared with tea leaves, yak butter, and salt.
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  Karelian pasties topped with egg butter
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  Croissants

See also

• List of dairy products
• List of pastries
• List of spreads
• Mound of Butter (Vollon) – famous painting depicting butter