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

Bread and butter pudding served with custard

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.

Butter dishes and foods

Buttermilk pie is a traditional pie of the southern United States.^[1]

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
• Beurre noir – French butter dish
• Beurre noisette – Sauce used in French cuisine
• Bread and butter pudding – Traditional sweet British pudding
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• Butter cake – Type of cake
• Butter cookie – Biscuit 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 drink mainly consisting of butter churned with tea
• Butterbrot – Buttered bread, a German staple food
• Buttercream
• 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 – Flaky, crescent-shaped 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 cake
• 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.^[2]
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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

References

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