Bacon-Blue Cheese Compound Butter

By lorik

Perfect for a steak with little marbling, like tenderloin or triangle steak, compound butter adds flavor and a little sauce as it melts.

Ingredients

• Cook:
• 4 strips thick sliced bacon, diced
• Combine:
• 1 stick unsalted butter, softened
• 2 Tbsp crumbled blue cheese
• 2 Tbsp minced shallots
• 2 Tbsp chopped fresh parsley
• 2 Tbsp minced walnuts
• 1/2 tsp lemon zest
• 1/2 tsp Worchestershire sauce
• Salt and pepper to taste

Preparation

Step 1

Cook bacon in a skillet until crisp. Transfer bacon to a paper towel lined plate and reserve 1 Tbsp drippings. Once cool, finely chop bacon.

Combine butter, reserve drippings, blue cheese, shallots, parsley, walnuts, zest, and Worchestershire; season with salt and pepper.

Mound butter mixture onto a piece of plastic wrap. Roll plastic wrap around butter to form a tight cylinder, then tightly twist ends of plastic wrap. Freeze butter until firm, 30 minutes.

Sprinkle bacon on top of the butter once placed onto steaks.