Clean Eating Butter Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What can I use instead of butter for toast on a Mediterranean diet? ›

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends the Mediterranean diet to promote health and prevent disease. This diet includes: Replacing butter with healthy fats, such as olive oil. Eating primarily plant-based foods, like fruits and vegetables, whole grains, beans and nuts.

Grass-fed butter offers some health benefits to counteract the health risks it poses. It appears to have lower levels of saturated fats and more unsaturated fats than standard butter. This is because grass-fed butter is made from the milk of cows that are allowed to graze instead of being fed high-grain diets.

Butter is avoided by some clean eaters, but not by others, while most who eat it suggest it should be organic and grass-fed – attributes that don't change the fact it is high in saturated fat. There is similar inconsistency over sugar.

Avoid peanut, safflower, corn and soybean oils. You can also use avocado oil, which can withstand higher temperatures than olive oil. Eliminate margarine; avoid butter, but if you do use it, opt for a high quality butter made from grass-fed milk, such as Kerrygold. Eat a handful of nuts every day.

Grass-fed butter is rich in important nutrients like Vitamin K2, and it contains a type of fat called butyric acid, which helps maintain colon health. It's also rich in conjugated linoleic acid, a type of fat that may actually help protect against weight gain.

Yes, you can substitute regular Smart Balance Buttery Spreads and Better Butters for butter or margarine in exactly the same amounts called for in your recipes. Please note that due to lower fat content, our “Light” varieties of buttery spreads are not intended for cooking or baking and should be used only as spreads.

Sweet (Not Sour) Cream Butter

But back when Land O'Lakes was founded, most butter was made from sour cream and sold in tubs. Land O'Lakes was the first to make butter from fresh, sweet cream, and sell it in individually wrapped sticks.

The texture of homemade butter is softer, creamier, and fluffier than regular stick butter. The flavor of the plain butter differs on the type of heavy cream you use.

How long does homemade butter last? Homemade butter has a shelf life of up to 2 – 3 weeks when kept in the fridge. You can also keep your homemade butter in the freezer for up to 9 months.

Why do people wash homemade butter? ›

Did you know your butter was dirty? It isn't, per se, the washing of the butter is meant to clean the remaining buttermilk out of the butter to help with preservation of the butter. The more buttermilk you are able to take out of the butter, the less chance the butter has of going rancid.

Yogurt & Cheese-based

Labneh, or yogurt-cheese, is a tangy, thick and creamy spread consumed widely in the Eastern part of the Mediterranean. Labneh can be jazzed up with a splash of extra virgin olive oil and any number of herbs and spices, such as za'atar or sumac.

Consider combining whole grains, fruit, yogurt and vegetables. For example, you can have whole grain toast with tomato slices, apple slices dipped in peanut butter and yogurt. Although the Mediterranean diet focuses on reducing dairy, it is allowed on a limited basis.