4 Minute Garlic Butter Sauce

Garlic butter sauce in a small glass bowl, with a gold spoon with sauce on it, on a grey marble background.

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4 Minute Garlic Butter Sauce

This super easy garlic butter sauce takes less than 5 minutes to make and upgrades any dish. Serve with steak, drizzle over potatoes, salmon, prawns, chicken, roasted veggies, toss through pasta or use it as a dipping sauce. You're going to love it!

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Course: sauces

Cuisine: Mediterranean

Keyword: butter sauce, garlic butter

Servings: /4 cup

Calories: 77kcal

Author: Kate Phillips

Ingredients

125 g unsalted butter ½ cup
6 garlic cloves peeled
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon fish sauce optional
½ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley

Instructions

Prepare the garlic.
If you prefer chunkier pieces of garlic, chop them finely with a knife, otherwise, use a garlic press or grate the cloves using a fine grater like a microplane.
Make the sauce.
Add the butter to a small pan over medium heat and let it melt, stirring. Turn the heat to low and add the garlic, 1 tablespoon of lemon juice, 1 teaspoon of fish sauce (if you're using it) and ½ teaspoon of salt.
Cook, stirring, until the garlic is starting to smell deliciously fragrant. This should take 2 minutes. Keep the heat on low and make sure you’re watching the sauce because you don’t want the garlic to burn. You also don't want the butter to start browning.
Finish the sauce. Remove the pan from the heat and stir through the chopped parsley. And you’re done! It’s now ready to be used however you like. This sauce is gorgeous with steak, fish, and chicken, drizzled over roasted vegetables or tossed through garlic butter potatoes.

Notes

INGREDIENT NOTES: The fish sauce adds a lovely deep, savoury element to the sauce (and I promise it's not fishy at all), but you can leave it out if you like. Swap the parsley for fresh rosemary, thyme or oregano, or use dried herbs. We're using unsalted butter so that it's easier to control the level of salt in the sauce, but you can use regular salted butter. Give it a taste before starting so you know how salty it is, then you can reduce the salt you add if you like.

STORAGE INSTRUCTIONS: Store the sauce in an airtight container in the fridge for 1 week. To reheat, pop in the microwave and heat at 30-second intervals, stirring, until melted.

SERVING SUGGESTIONS: There are so many things you can use this sauce for. I love it with steak, drizzled over chicken, fish, shrimp, or tossed through roasted vegetables or potatoes. It's also fabulous as a dipping sauce with flatbreads, quick dinner rolls or pita, and delicious for dunking your pizza crusts into!

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