The Adventures of Ate Chechebells: kombu butter singapore

When the people from Sanbox asked if I wanted to try the Kombu butter from Spread with Syle, my initial thought was.. Kombu, what?

As always, Google to my rescue.

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Kombu (pronounced KOM-boo) is an edible sea vegetable. Hailing from Japan, it's most historically used as one of the three main ingredients in 'dashi' noodle broth as a flavor enhancer (and can pretty much be used in most broths for the same benefit). It can be found dried (which is how it's used in broths), pickled in vinegar, or eaten fresh.

And apparently, there are tons of benefits when you include Kombu into your diet, read this article from Dr. Axe HERE.

So now this got me curious, I love Japanese food and butter,,, guess putting them together will be interesting. So I said yes! Thank you, Ms. Mandy, for sending me your lovely Kombu butter to try.

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Locally made in Singapore. Spread with style kombu butter is handcrafted by the couple, Gerard & Mandy, since 2018. Having been in the F&B industry for several years.

Their scrumptious kombu butter is derived from a union of two countries, Japan and France. Kombu originates from Japan.

So, when I received the tub of spread with style Kombu butter, I have to think of how I could use it aside from just spreading it on a piece of bread and toast it. Decided to put my not so good culinary skills to the test, you guys know I wake up at 5am for work and haven't been cooking as often as I used to. I will share with you how I used the spread with style Kombu butter with minimal effort. 😂😂

I had to try it with the bread, of course, I spread it on a bun and toasted it so I could get a taste of the butter on its own before I experiment it on other things haha haha.

I love how creamy it was, and the Kombu is not overpowering; it has this mild nutty sweetness into it, I could see myself eating tons of buns with this spread on it. Lucky me, I only had 3 pcs of buns, so I had to stop myself.

I usually do my video editing for my YouTube channel or writing my blog posts on Friday nights. And you guessed it I need to have something to eat so that the inspiration will get flowing, hahaha. I tried to put cheese on top of the toasted bun with spread with style Kombu butter, and the combination was perfect, the saltiness from the cheese and creamy sweet nutty from the butter..haiz! I am salivating now.

I don't have time to cook dinner, and usually, I am just eating by myself when Hubbyness is working the night shift at Jollibee. I decided to put it on my tomato soup, you know those canned tomato soups have this over tangy taste, and if I put some butter, it will make it creamy and will lessen the tanginess of the soup. Well, I am right! Not only did the spread with style Kombu butter gave it the creaminess that I am looking for, but it added sweet and nutty flavor to it..mind you it didn't make it seaweedy (if this is even a term).

Did I mention that Hubbyness works at Jollibee? One of the perks you might say is that he gets to bring home Jollibee chicken joy 😍 most of the time. ( and Yes! I don't get tired of eating chicken joy and their spaghetti). Being a Filipino, I love my rice and grew up eating rice with margarine, specifically Star margarine. So I added the spread with style Kombu butter with the rice put it on the microwave for 30 seconds and kaboom! Buttered rice, this version is the adult version of the rice that I grew up eating, again loved the flavor that it gave the rice. And it went well with the chicken, now I want to make chicken rice from spread with style Kombu butter.

This is the most work of all the food that I tried to make with the spread with style Kombu butter. I made pasta with tuna. I am a saucy type of pasta person, but having tried it with bread, soup, and rice made me a little adventurous 😂 , and it didn't disappoint. Kombu being a seaweed it will pair well with seafood, right? Ms. Mandy did suggest that I used it with shrimp and pasta, but since I don't have it, I decided to do the next thing I have, which is canned tuna.

I sauteed the tuna and Spread with style Kombu butter added a few green bell peppers and tossed in my pasta, and I had my dinner. I was pleasantly surprised that I thought it will be dry. It was creamy, and again the Kombu butter flavor was not overpowering, I did put about 2 tablespoons. And it went well with the tuna. Oh, I did add salt and pepper.

And yes, with most experiments, there will be fails, hahaha. I did try to put it on a Japanese noodle that I bought from Don Don Donki, and it didn't work out well, and it's my fault I shouldn't have put the seasonings that came with the packet. The seasoning overpowered the spread with style Kombu butter; it made it creamy, though.

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They do recommend storing the opened tub in a chiller and is best consumed within 3 weeks of opening, but trust me, 1 tub will not even last you a week 😂😂😂.

After all the experiments, Spread with style Kombu butter get a 5-star Happy Tummy from us, Hubbyness was able to try the pasta with tuna, and he liked it too, not because I cooked it.

Spread with style Kombu butter is versatile; you could use it on almost anything, and if you checked their Facebook page and Instagram, they share on ways that you could use it too, toink! On me that I only looked on their social media accounts while I am writing this review, it never occurred to me to put it on a steak!!!! How could I not have thought of that...me being a carnivore!!!

I love how creamy, sweet, and nutty it is, and it does not taste seaweedy at all. The spread with style Kombu butter sells for $12.00 sgd per 120g tub.

And the question is, will I purchase a tub for myself? YES! after doing all those tests with good results and discovered other ways I could use it, and school break is just around the corner, I have time to cook, diet goes out of the window.

Ready to get yourself a tub? The details on how to order below.