5 Minute Homemade Cultured Butter
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 0 minutes
- 300ml/10.6ozs. sour cream (full fat only)
- 1/4 teaspoon or 1.5grams fine salt
Step 1 - Place the sour cream in a mixer fitted with a balloon whisk. Cover with a teatowel as the buttermilk will separate and spit out. Whisk for 3-4 minutes until it separates (the higher the fat level, the faster it will separate).
Step 2 - Thermomix method: Insert the butterfly attachment. Add sour cream and mix for 3-4 minutes at speed 3.5. The sound will change and you can hear more liquid sloshing about inside as the buttermilk separates.
Step 3 - Place in a sieve sitting over a jug and scoop out the butter and drain the buttermilk from the butter. Keep the buttermilk in the jug as it is great in baking. Using only cold water rinse the butter under the tap pressing down gently on the butter with a spatula (do not use your hands as the heat will melt the butter) until the water runs clear. This rinsing process takes time and you can wash the butter anything from 6-8 times or more.
Step 4 - Mix with the salt and place on some parchment paper and shape and place in the fridge or enjoy straight away.