Lemon Butter Sauce

This EASY Lemon Butter Sauce recipe is an elegant, smooth sauce you’ll want to drizzle all over proteins, pasta, veggies!

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Course: Sauce

Cuisine: American

Keyword: lemon butter sauce

Cook Time: 5

Total Time: 5

Servings: cup

Calories: 1716kcal

Ingredients

1 cup unsalted butter
1 fresh lemon zest and juice, divided
1 clove garlic grated
1/2 teaspoon coarse kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
1 tablespoon heavy cream
2 teaspoon flat parsley chopped, optional

Instructions

Melt the butter in a small saucepan over low heat. Add the lemon zest, garlic, salt and pepper. Simmer for 3-4 minutes.
Take the sauce off the heat and whisk in the lemon juice, heavy cream and parsley, if using.
Use immediately or set aside and reheat when ready to use.
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Notes

This sauce will have little white floaters, these are the milks solids and totally normal to not 100% emulsify. Either whisk again or reheat. Using clarified butter and no cream will prevent this from happening, but will not impact the flavor- it tastes better with both, YOU ARE WELCOME :)

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