Best Garlic Lemon Butter Sauce Recipe

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My Garlic Lemon Butter Sauce recipe is an easy way to make any meal gourmet. It's ready in just 10 minutes using 5 simple ingredients plus salt and pepper. Try creamy lemon butter sauce on everything from chicken to seafood! It's even keto-friendly.

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• How to Make Lemon Butter Sauce
• Creamy Lemon Butter Sauce FAQs
• Lemon Butter Sauce Variations
• Lemon Garlic Butter Sauce Recipe Tips
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• What to Serve with Lemon Garlic Sauce
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Best Creamy Lemon Garlic Butter Sauce

My creamy garlic lemon butter sauce is the sauce dreams are made of. It's the type of buttery garlic sauce you can add to anything to make it restaurant-quality. Garlicky and lemony with a splash of heavy cream, this is a truly rich sauce recipe my family loves on everything from chicken to seafood.

If you know me, you know how obsessed I am with my Garlic Butter Sauce (and trust me, if you try it, you will be too!). It seemed natural to add lemon and cream to the equation to bring it to a whole new level of deliciousness.

Give this sauce recipe a try with chicken tenders, steak, salmon, or even roasted vegetables, and let me know what you think in the comments. I guarantee you and your family will love it! If you've ever had Carrabba's lemon butter sauce, you will enjoy mine just as much.

Lemon Butter Sauce Ingredients

• Lemon
• Butter 
• Garlic, minced
• White wine or chicken broth
• Heavy cream or half & half
• Salt and pepper 

How to Make Lemon Butter Sauce

1. In a skillet over medium heat, melt butter and add minced garlic.
2. Cook garlic down for 2-3 minutes, then squeeze in lemon juice.
3. Continue cooking for 2-3 minutes, before adding white wine. Stir.
4. Simmer down for 2-3 minutes, then add in remaining butter and season with salt and pepper.
5. Slowly stir in the heavy cream, and mix well. Serve, and enjoy!

Creamy Lemon Butter Sauce FAQs

Lemon Butter Sauce Variations

• Add fresh or dried herbs such as parsley, rosemary, or thyme.
• Capers add an additional tang that pairs well with this sauce.
• Our mushroom and onions would be delicious cooked in garlic lemon butter sauce.

Lemon Garlic Butter Sauce Recipe Tips

• Always slowly add the cream when making creamy lemon butter sauce, or any sauce using dairy. If you add it too quickly it may heat too fast and curdle.
• If you want to add herbs, you can use dried herbs instead of fresh. Use 1 teaspoon of dried herbs for every 1 tablespoon fresh herbs.
• Light cream can be used instead of heavy cream if you need the sauce to be a little lighter, but please note the consistency won't be the same.

Amazing Creamy Sauce Recipes

• Creamy Alfredo Sauce Recipe
• Garlic Parmesan Sauce
• Garlic White Sauce

Try more of my favorite cream sauce recipes:

If you love lemon flavor, you will love our Aioli Sauce!

What to Serve with Lemon Garlic Sauce

• Serve as a lemon butter sauce for pasta.
• This is a perfect lemon butter sauce for steak. I love it with Tomahawk Steak.
• Lemon butter sauce for salmon is incomparable. Try this Sous Vide Salmon.
• I love garlic lemon butter sauce for crab legs.
• In fact, there is nothing like creamy lemon butter sauce for seafood - try it with shrimp, too!
• Lemon garlic sauce for chicken is a must. Try this Lemon Butter Sauce Chicken.

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