Looking for a new experience or just to make things easier? Let’s try this Lemon butter sauce that will make any dish happier!
Lemon butter is exactly what it sounds like, Butter with lemon. Some, who are more adventurous, add additional spices and herbs, like garlic and parsley, that go hand in hand, or salt and black pepper essentially rendering lemon butter into a complex compound butter.
In its purest form Lemon butter is used on anything that requires only lemon and butter which most of the time is fish and sometimes chicken. We could, of course, just use the butter as it is to fry our meat with occasional vegetables and then squeeze a bit of lemon juice on top but then we wouldn’t have a sauce occupying space in the fridge and always ready to be pulled out when needed.
Sure lemon butter is slightly different than pure butter because it has been clarified just like ghee which process removes the impurities and leaves back only the fat with a characteristic nutty flavor which we all so love in butter popcorn too.
Now lemon juice is added too, further elevating the flavor portfolio to a completely different level where we can instantly see the endless possibilities this simple compound butter can provide.
Drizzled on salad, fish, chicken or soon anything that before considered incompatible with such trivia, could come under our scrutinizing creativity, exploring possibilities to the infinite and beyond.
Ingredients
- 2 sticks / 250g Butter
- 1 medium / 50g Lemon’s Juice
- 1 teaspoon / 5g Salt (optional)
How to make Lemon butter sauce
- Melt butter on medium heat.
- Cook the butter, stirring it carefully every now and then.
- Keep cooking it until the white foam disappears and the butter starts to bubble slightly.
- Once the butter turns golden, remove it from the heat immediately.
- Filter the hot butter through a kitchen towel lined sieve.
- Let it cool a bit then add the lemon juice and optional salt.
- Mix them together. Lemon butter sauce is ready to be used or poured into a container for later use.
Enjoy!
Lemon butter sauce recipe
Ingredients
- 2 sticks Butter
- 1 medium Lemon's Juice
- 1 teaspoon Salt optional
Instructions
- Melt butter on medium heat.
- Cook the butter, stirring it carefully every now and then.
- Keep cooking it until the white foam disappears and the butter starts to bubble slightly.
- Once the butter turns golden, remove it from the heat immediately.
- Filter the hot butter through a kitchen towel lined sieve.
- Let it cool a bit then add the lemon juice and optional salt.
- Mix them together. Lemon butter sauce is ready to be used or poured into a container for later use.
Notes
Nutrition
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