Garlic Butter Sauce
Here's how to Make Garlic Butter Sauce with variations off a basic Garlic Butter Sauce recipe. It's extremely delicious and versatile!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Garlic cloves, peeled
- 3/4 cup olive oil
- 1 stick butter soft, unsalted
- 1 teaspoon Granulated garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon each of salt and pepper
Variations to add on
- 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
- 1 teaspoon chilli flakes
- 1 lemon zest
- 2 tablespoons herbs thyme or rosemary
Instructions
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Gather your ingredients for the sauce.
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In a small pot over medium heat add the garlic cloves and olive oil and cook for a 10-12 minutes until the garlic starts to look slightly golden.
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Strain the garlic and keep the garlic olive oil in a separate container.
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In a food processor, add the butter, the cooked garlic, seasoning and puree.
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It's smooth and ready at that point to melt over your cooked food.
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To make variations, see the post and variations and uses.
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Store the sauce wrapped in parchment paper in the fridge or freezer.
Recipe Video
Recipe Notes
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.