Lemon Garlic Butter Sauce for Seafood

January 26th, 2013 in Sauces & Dips & Spreads by Julia Volhina

Total cooking time: 15min

Nice and quick recipe for simple sauce to serve with seafood: crab legs, mussels, clams, lobsters, etc.

You can use use fresh garlic or garlic powder, as well as fresh lemon or lemon juice, whatever is at your disposal.

When served, make sure it can be kept warm enough to prevent butter from thickening.

Prepare ingredients: if you use salted butter you can skip on salt, unless you like sauce to be more salty than the butter is:
Lemon Garlic Butter Sauce for Seafood Recipe: Step 1
Melt butter in microwave, peel and press both garlic cloves in:
Lemon Garlic Butter Sauce for Seafood Recipe: Step 2
Squeeze juice from the lemon slice:
Lemon Garlic Butter Sauce for Seafood Recipe: Step 3
And add salt (or skip on it if butter is salty enough):
Lemon Garlic Butter Sauce for Seafood Recipe: Step 4
Season with black pepper to taste:
Lemon Garlic Butter Sauce for Seafood Recipe: Step 5
And mix:
Lemon Garlic Butter Sauce for Seafood Recipe: Step 6
Serve in warmed up dish (or a dish which can be kept warm so butter doesn’t thicken; goes good with any kind of seafood crab legs, mussels, clams, lobsters, etc:
Lemon Garlic Butter Sauce for Seafood Recipe: Step 7

Enjoy!

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