Carrabbas Italian Butter Food

LEMON BUTTER SAUCE

Steps:

• Place a medium non-stick skillet over medium heat, add 1 tablespoon of butter. Allow the butter to melt, add onion and garlic and cook stirring frequently. Cook until onion is translucent, about 3 minutes. Add the wine and lemon juice and bring to a boil over high heat. Continue to cook until the liquid is reduced to about 1/4 cup, about 3-5 minutes.
• Reduce the heat to low, add 3 tablespoons of butter at a time and whisk the butter in until it is completely melted. You want the butter to slowly soften into an emulsified sauce, not quickly melting; it is a process. Add the remaining butter 3 tablespoons at a time until all the butter has been added into the sauce. The last addition will be just 2 tbsp. Season the sauce with salt and pepper, then remove from heat.
• Serve immediately or store sauce up to 2 hours at room temperature. If you are to reheat the sauce, do it over a low setting otherwise the sauce will separate.
• If it does separate remember the sauce will still taste the same, just not have the same look, it will look more like melted butter. After a few times of making the sauce, you will get the hang of it.
• Cooking this sauce on low heat is key.

CARRABBA'S LEMON BUTTER SAUCE

Steps:

• To clarify butter; Melt 1/2 stick of butter over low heat. When melted, remove from heat and set aside for several minutes to allow the milk solids to settle to the bottom. Skim the clear (clarified) butter from the top, and discard sediment. (This can be done ahead of time).
• To make the sauce: Heat clarified butter, add onion and garlic, and saute until transparent. Add lemon juice and white wine, and season to taste with salt and pepper. Simmer 2-3 minutes to reduce liquid. Remove from heat and swirl in cold butter until sauce is smooth and emulsified.

CARRABBA'S ITALIAN BUTTER CLONE

Steps:

• Mix together herbs and spices.
• Place on a saucer.
• Add crushed garlic and mix well.
• Add melted butter; pour olive oil over mixture.
• Use as a dip for Italian bread.

CARRABBA'S ITALIAN BUTTER

Steps:

• Mix together your dry spices. Add crushed garlic to the dry spices. Place on small saucer. Pour olive oil over mixture. Dip with your favorite hot French bread.

CARRABBA'S ITALIAN GRILL BRUSCHETTE CARRABBA

Steps:

• Bake loaf of Italian bread in oven until lightly browned. Slice the bread into ½" slices and discard end pieces. Cut larger middle slices into equal halves.
• Mix softened butter with chopped garlic and garlic powder. Spread garlic butter over six of the smaller pieces of bread.
• Place fontina slices on 3 buttered slices of bread.
• Place mozzarella on the three remaining pieces of buttered bread.
• Place sauteed mushrooms on top of the fontina cheese. Top the mozzarella cheese with the tomato slices and Pesto.
• Place all six slices on a baking pan and bake in a preheated 500ºF oven for 4 minutes, or until cheese has melted.
• Remove from oven and top fontina-mushroom bruschette with a drizzle of olive oil.
• Do not add olive oil to the tomato-pesto bruschette. Sprinkle all bruschette with the thinly sliced basil leaves.

CARRABBA'S ITALIAN DIP MIX

Steps:

• Grind together and put 1 tablespoon of mixture on plate.
• Pour extra virgin olive oil over and mix together with mixture.
• Dip warm french bread in the mixture.