The Type Of Butter Ina Garten Can't Stop Using
Anyone who watches her cooking show or reads her series of cookbooks knows that Ina Garten hardly ever settles for store-bought ingredients.
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When it comes to butter, however, Garten has a different approach. While you might assume that the queen of "store-bought is fine" uses homemade butter made with fresh cream, Garten actually has a preferred store-bought brand. "I often use Cabot unsalted butter, but there are many good brands of butters available," she shared on the Ask Ina section of the Barefoot Contessa blog. Cabot brand butter, however, isn't the only type of butter she uses. Garten also has another go-to that is so special it can, in many cases, only be purchased online.
Ina Garten considers truffle butter a pantry staple
For most people, unsalted and salted are the only varieties of butter they keep in the fridge, but for Ina Garten, it's unsalted and truffle butter. "It really turns up the volume on everything from simple scrambled eggs to elegant fettuccine," she told Food Network.
To make her truffle butter-based recipes, Garten told Today that she prefers using Urbani's white truffle butter, which is made of 100% Italian white truffles. According to the Urbani website, it costs nearly $50 for 12 ounces, but considering how expensive white truffles are, it's a relatively fair price. If you're not willing to drop that much on one ingredient, Garten also recommends D'Artagnan brand white truffle butter (via House Beautiful), which you can buy for around $30 for 16 ounces. Garten herself orders six tubs of truffle butter at a time and keeps them in the freezer, she revealed to Food Network.
