How To Make Lemon Butter

This rich, flavorful lemon butter sauce is delicious on pasta, roasted veggies, and more than. Made with 5 ingredients, it comes together in minutes.

Earlier this bound, I started making this lemon butter sauce to serve with steamed artichokes. Since then, I've started serving it with so much more – pasta, roasted veggies, couscous. It's deliciously buttery and rich, with a vivid, savory flavor from lemon juice and garlic. You just need 5 ingredients to arrive, and it comes together in less than 5 minutes. I mean, why nondrizzle it over everything?

Lemon Butter Sauce Recipe Ingredients

Y'all but need 5 ingredients to make this recipe:

Butter, of form! I recommend using unsalted butter here. That way, you have complete control over the seasoning. If yous utilise salted butter, or if you make this recipe with vegan butter, omit the salt and season to sense of taste.
Fresh lemon juice – Its bright flavor cuts the butter'south richness.
Garlic – For savory depth of flavor.
And salt and pepper – To make all the flavors popular.

Find the complete recipe with measurements below.

How to Use Lemon Butter Sauce

Once you lot take this lemon butter sauce recipe in your dorsum pocket, accept fun experimenting with different ways to use it. It's amazingly versatile, and I call back you'll find that it tastes great on all sorts of dishes. Here are a few serving suggestions to get yous started:

Toss it with pasta. I phone call for this lemon garlic butter sauce specifically in my artichoke pasta recipe, but don't feel like you need a recipe to utilise it. Make a quick weeknight dinner by tossing information technology with any pasta shape, sautéed greens, and Parmesan cheese, or use it to dress up your adjacent batch of homemade pasta.
Mix information technology with couscous or riceto make an piece of cake side dish for any protein you like.
Serve it as a dipping sauce. I especially similar it with steamed artichoke leaves or roasted baby artichokes.
Drizzle it over simply cooked veggies. You'll love it on dark-green beans, roasted asparagus, roasted radishes, and cauliflower.

How do you like to serve this lemon sauce? Permit me know in the comments!

More Favorite Sauce Recipes

If you dearest this recipe, endeavor one of these easy sauces side by side:

Artichoke Dipping Sauce
Flossy Dill Sauce
Tartar Sauce
Basil Pesto
Marinara Sauce
Alfredo Sauce

Lemon Butter Sauce

Serves four

This lemon garlic butter sauce is rich, flavorful, and SO easy to make! Serve information technology on pasta, couscous, roasted veggies, and more than.

¼ loving cup unsalted butter, cut into pieces
1 garlic clove, grated
¼ teaspoon sea salt
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Freshly ground black pepper
Parsley, for garnish
Pinch crimson pepper flakes, optional

Melt the butter in a pocket-sized saucepan over low heat. Add the garlic and salt and cook for 1 infinitesimal. Remove from the heat and add together the lemon juice. Season with freshly ground pepper and sprinkle with parsley and red pepper flakes, if using.
Serve with steamed artichokes for dipping or toss with pasta. See the blog mail service above for additional serving suggestions.

Make this recipe vegan past using vegan butter. Considering vegan butter is already salted, omit the salt, and flavour to taste.