Garlic Butter Sauce

Here’s how to Make Garlic Butter Sauce with variations off a basic Garlic Butter Sauce recipe. It’s extremely versatile and can accompany many dishes such as seafood, pasta, steak. You can just about try it with any dish and it will go perfectly. You NEED this sauce in your life!!

Why you need Garlic Butter Sauce

Knowing how to make a garlic butter sauce you can put with any dish is a must for giving dishes that something special.

This sauce adds a lovely buttery garlic taste while bringing out the natural flavors in the main dish. It’s also a great sauce to have in your recipe book for drier dishes that you want to balance out with a sauce.

I lately made this terrific Sockeye Salmon With Lemon Butter Sauce (with video) and used the sauce base to boost it up into a gourmet salmon recipe with minimal effort!

The sauce can be made ahead of time and stored in the fridge or even freezer for a quick fix to your meals!

I use olive oil to cook the garlic and butter to make the sauce, however the olive oil is ABSOLUTELY deliciously infused with garlic! For the record, my favorite olive oil is the one I use in this Tuna Salad Recipe with Olive Oil Dressing and Olive Oil Cake.

Through the videos and images, I share my favorite flavor combos to use with every meal for the basic sauce. However, you can totally swap herbs, zests, cheeses, and spices to suit your taste.

The best things is to probably start with the basic recipe and then keep on playing with it until you find which flavors work best for your meals.

How to Make Garlic Butter Sauce

To start making your garlic sauce peel and half your garlic and cook them in olive oil.

Once cooked strain the garlic from the olive oil but keep the olive oil for later use in other dishes (trust me garlic-infused olive oil is delicious!).

Blend the garlic in a food processor with the butter and granulated garlic as well as pepper and salt.

Blend until well combined and there you have a smooth texture. Serve with your desired meal.

After you’ve made the basic sauce you can really make it your own and adapt it to the dish you are cooking by adding in lots of other flavors.

Lemon Garlic Butter Sauce/Garlic Butter Sauce for Seafood

While seafood on its own is lovely,  it’s absolutely delicious paired with this garlic butter sauce.

You can adapt this recipe with added lemon juice to add a tangy flavor that traditionally goes so well with seafood. If you want an extra-strong lemon flavor to go with your seafood then adding lemon zest will do the trick.

For a more herby flavor then adding thyme to this sauce is a lovely addition that goes well with seafood. 

Now, if you’re looking for some heat with your seafood then you can’t go wrong sprinkling some chili flakes into the recipe.

Imagine using this on Seared Salmon with Blue Cheese recipe and the Sockeye Salmon With Lemon Butter Sauce or even the Baked Mahi Mahi and  Cooking Mussels with lemon sauce. 

Garlic Butter Sauce for Pasta

Pair your pasta dish with this sauce for a really flavorsome and rich pasta experience.

It’s utterly mouthwatering.   You can also add parmesan cheese directly into the garlic sauce for an even richer dish. Adding other flavors like thyme adds a refreshing twist to this pairing. If you are looking for something on the hotter side then you can’t go wrong with a few chilies flakes.

Try it on this Quick Shrimp Pasta with Garlic Feta Sauce.

Garlic Butter Sauce for Steak

This sauce and steak go hand in hand and are a match made in heaven. Adding fresh herbs like rosemary can give the garlic butter sauce and steak combination an added dimension that takes this pairing to the next level.

We also know pepper and steak go so well together, so adding some extra pepper into this sauce will also go down a treat.

Parmesan cheese is another option to put in this sauce to pair with steak that really enriches this dish and is very enjoyable.

Without a doubt, this sauce works wonders on these Steak Bites with Parmesan Cheese and Grilled Steak with Rosemary Lemon Butter.

Variations and Tips:

• Don’t overcook the garlic in the olive oil.
• The olive oil that you strain is amazing and flavorful to use separately. 
• That garlic will be soft and sweet and full of flavor once cooked.
• A food processor is your best friend to make the sauce, however you can use a mortar and pestle.
• Use endless variations and flavoring to make this sauce super versatile.
• BEST way to use this sauce is to melt it and spoon it over the food. You can likewise throw it in your pan while cooking and it will melt well to create the sauce.
• Make double and triple batches and store them in your freezer portioned for elevating your everyday meals!

Creamy Garlic Butter Sauce:

If you want to make this garlic butter sauce even more creamy then you can add cream to it. To do this effectively just add the cream to the sauce and simmer it all for a few minutes string to make sure its all well combined.

Garlic Butter Dipping Sauce:

You can also adapt this garlic butter sauce so you have a moreish garlic dipping sauce that you can dip just about anything in for a garlicky kick. All you need to do is melt the butter and you have your dipping sauce.

Garlic Butter Sauce for Pizza:

Pizza and garlic are lovely together so you can adapt this sauce just for pizza. Just melt the sauce and add a hint of oregano for a lovely pizza garlic butter dipping sauce. 

While we’re on the pizza topic, feel free to try my famous No Knead Overnight Pizza Dough.  Or, my classic Best Pizza Dough and for a fun recipe that’s adult and kid approved, try this Pizza Bites recipe!

Storing the Garlic Butter Sauce:

The best way to store the sauce is to wrap it in parchment paper.

At that point, you can refrigerate the sauce and use it within a month. Or freeze it and use it within 6 months.

ENJOY

This is a really delicious but super easy garlic butter sauce to make that will really enhance almost any dish you choose to use it with be it pasta, steak, seafood, or anything else for that matter.