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Garlic Butter Sauce is made in minutes for herby, garlicky, and delightfully buttery flavor. With just 5 ingredients, this incredible sauce goes great on seafood, pasta, pizza, as a dipping sauce, and more!
5 ingredients and less than 5 minutes of work? Sign me up! Sign you up? Any takers? Excuse my excitement for today’s garlic butter sauce. It’s so easy to make, packed full of flavor, and goes great on pizza, pasta, seafood, and as a great dip for appetizers aplenty!
Pretty soon, you’ll be pouring this sauce over everything, and finding excuses to dip anything you can in it. Let’s make this!
Garlic Butter Sauce Ingredients
The ingredients to make garlic butter sauce are so simple it’s kind of hard to believe. But something truly so delicious is possible with so few steps and ingredients!
- Butter – unsalted is best so you can set the just-right amount of salt for you. But if all you have is salted butter, you may not need to add any additional salt.
- Garlic
- Lemon Juice – use freshly-squeezed for the best flavor of garlic and butter sauce
- Salt and Pepper
- Parsley – fresh parsley is a beautiful touch, but if you don’t have it, you can skip it.
How to Make Garlic Butter Sauce
How do you make garlic butter sauce, anyway? Well, it takes just a few easy steps.
First, melt the butter in a small skillet, or in a microwave.
Second, stir in garlic and lemon juice.
Third, add salt and pepper to your personal taste.
Lastly, remove from heat and stir in parsley. That’s truly it!
What to Serve with Garlic Butter Sauce
Since we’ve just learned how to make garlic butter sauce, let’s use it for seafood, pasta, pizza, as a dipping sauce, and more! Here are a few ideas.
- Pasta: pour over cooked pasta, or kick up the buttery flavor in tomato basil pasta, garlic butter pasta, or pesto pasta.
- Breads: dip roasted garlic bread, toasted crackers, or triple the buttery garlic delight in garlic toast with this sauce and garlic confit.
- Pizza Night: use this garlic butter sauce as a pizza sauce!
- Appetizers: dip air fryer onion rings, french fries, and potato wedges.
- Seafood: pour or dip this sauce over lobster, fish sticks, and more.
- On a Dip Flight: along with creamy ranch dressing, spicy onion ring sauce or chipotle aioli, tangy dill pickle dip, and delish tartar sauce for sauce loving guests.
Sending you all my love and maybe even a dove, xo Demeter ❤️
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Garlic Butter Sauce
Ingredients
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, if using salted, adjust salt to taste
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- Salt and pepper to taste, – I started with 1/8 teaspoon each
- 1-2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
Instructions
- Melt butter in the microwave or in a small skillet over medium heat.
- Stir in garlic and lemon juice. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Remove from heat and stir in parsley before serving. Enjoy!
This Garlic Butter Sauce recipe is wonderful! It’s easy to make and adds a rich, savory flavor to any dish. Perfect for pasta, seafood, or as a dipping sauce. Thank you!
I am right there with you on all the things to dip into this sauce, Heather! I’m seriously so happy you’re enjoying it!
Absolutely delicious! Served it with homemade pizza (my husband is a dip guy) and it was perfection!
That’s so awesome! As a dip gal myself, I’m glad he liked it. 🙂
This was perfect served with our fish last night!!!
So glad to hear you two liked it!
This butter sauce is so simple yet so flavorful! We used this on steaks and even as a dipping sauce for french fries!
Okay, you’re totally speaking my language with the fries! 😄