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    Best Garlic Lemon Butter Sauce Recipe

    Published: Jan 16, 2022 Modified: Mar 21, 2022 by Isabel Laessig

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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.

    Pouring creamy lemon butter sauce over chicken cutlets on a plate
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    • Lemon Butter Sauce Ingredients
    • How to Make Lemon Butter 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

    What is garlic lemon butter sauce made of?

    Lemon butter sauce is made of minced garlic or garlic paste, fresh lemon juice, white wine, butter, salt and pepper, and heavy cream. This easy white wine cream sauce is richly flavorful and pairs well with every protein.Pouring cream into skillet with lemon and butter

    Is lemon butter sauce keto-friendly?

    Lemon butter sauce is keto-friendly and therefore a great choice for a low carb meal plan.

    Is lemon butter sauce gluten-free?

    Garlic lemon butter sauce is gluten-free.

    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.

    Check out my all-time favorite sauce recipes here: Easy Sauce Recipes

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    Garlic Lemon Butter Sauce

    Isabel Laessig
    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.
    4.83 from 17 votes
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    Cook Time 10 mins
    Total Time 10 mins
    Course Sauce
    Cuisine American
    Servings 2 cups
    Calories 546 kcal

    Equipment

    • Skillet

    Ingredients
      

    • 1 lemon
    • 8 Tablespoons butter divided into 4 tablespoons and 2 tablespoons
    • 1 Tablespoon garlic minced
    • 1 cup white wine or chicken broth
    • ½ cup heavy cream or half & half
    • salt and pepper to taste

    Instructions
     

    • In a skillet over medium heat, melt butter and add minced garlic.
      8 Tablespoons butter, 1 Tablespoon garlic
      Melting butter in a skillet
    • Cook garlic down for 2-3 minutes, then squeeze in lemon juice.
      1 lemon
      Squeezing lemon juice into a skillet of butter
    • Continue cooking for 2-3 minutes, before adding white wine. Stir.
      1 cup white wine
      Adding white wine to skillet
    • Simmer down for 2-3 minutes, then add in remaining butter and season with salt and pepper.
      8 Tablespoons butter, salt and pepper
      Simmering down sauce
    • Slowly stir in the heavy cream, and mix well. Serve, and enjoy!
      ½ cup heavy cream
      Pouring cream into skillet with lemon and butter

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    Nutrition

    Calories: 546kcalCarbohydrates: 11gProtein: 2gFat: 47gSaturated Fat: 30gCholesterol: 136mgSodium: 336mgPotassium: 212mgFiber: 2gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 1545IUVitamin C: 31mgCalcium: 68mgIron: 1mg
    Keyword garlic lemon butter sauce, garlic lemon sauce, lemon butter sauce, lemon garlic sauce
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    1. Monica says

      March 28, 2022 at 10:42 pm

      4 stars
      Came out amazing!!!

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      • Isabel Laessig says

        March 31, 2022 at 3:54 pm

        Thanks so much, Monica! We're glad you enjoyed it!

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