Garlic Butter Sauce for Seafood, Pasta, Steak and More
This recipe for garlic butter sauce with lemon yields a bit shy of a cup. Feel free to flavor the sauce with extra seasonings beyond the listed ingredients. Cajun or Old Bay spice blends, hot sauce, fresh thyme or oregano all work well as additions.
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Servings: 8
Calories: 276kcal
Ingredients
- 8 oz unsalted butter 2 sticks*
- 4 cloves garlic minced**
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- salt to taste
- 1 tablespoon finley chopped fresh Italian parsley
Instructions
- Cut the butter into pieces and bring it to room temperature. Prepare the rest of the ingredients.
- In a sauce pan over medium-low heat (or low if your stove tends to be strong) melt 2 tablespoon butter and add the minced garlic to it.
- Stir the garlic around as it softens and once fragrant (about 60 seconds) add the rest of the butter pieces.
- Once most of the butter has melted stir in the garlic powder (it will add a different garlicky dimension to the overall flavor).
- Turn off the heat once all the butter has melted and white foam appears on top (it is simply water bubbling before it evaporates). Add salt (to taste), the lemon juice and stir. Fold in the parsley. Serve.
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Notes
*The better the quality of the butter, the better the sauce will taste. Use Irish or European style if possible.
**Medium sized, the sauce will taste garlicky but not too much because its flavor mellows down during the initial softening. If you crave stronger taste increase the amount of cloves.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 276kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 31g | Saturated Fat: 19g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 10g | Cholesterol: 81mg | Sodium: 103mg
