Garlic Butter Sauce

Name: Garlic Butter Sauce
Ingredients: 2 sticks (½ cup) unsalted butter, divided; Splash of heavy cream; 3 tbsp minced garlic; 1 medium shallot, very finely minced; Pinch of salt; ¼ tsp freshly ground black pepper

This garlic butter sauce is great on filets, seafood, and fried chicken!

Ingredients

2 sticks (½ cup) unsalted butter, divided
Splash of heavy cream
3 tbsp minced garlic
1 medium shallot, very finely minced
Pinch of salt
¼ tsp freshly ground black pepper

Steps

Melt 2 tbsp butter in large straight-sided sauté pan over medium high heat. Add garlic and shallot, and cook until garlic is golden.
Add remaining ingredients, and cook just until butter is melted. Remove from heat and allow to come down to room temperature.
Purée sauce in batches until smooth. Return to pan and heat through on low heat.

More recipes with butter, cream, garlic or shallot

Adapted from “Garlic Butter Sauce” in the Wikibooks Cookbook by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Reformatted for this site; this page's recipe text is shared under the same license.