I made this very simple butter garlic lemon sauce for some Barramundi fish I had picked up from the store. You can use this very easy flavorful sauce with any fish or I think it would be great over most proteins. Where the sauce uses just a few ingredients, make them the best ingredients you can. Basically fresh lemon for the lemon juice, good quality butter will help make it taste even better.
The fish I used here is called Barramundi is a mild white flaky buttery fish from Australia; it is also called The Sustainable Seabass. I am a flaky white fish kind of person. I prefer to stay clear of anything too fishy tasting so I am one of the few that do not like salmon. I wish I liked it but it is what it is.
Barramundi with a Lemon Butter Garlic sauce
a very flavorful sauce that would go over any fish or other protein
Ingredients
fish
- Kosher salt and black pepper
sauce
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon ½ lemon squeezed
Instructions
- Dry the fish on both sides and lightly salt and pepper. Heat skillet on medium high add olive oil, place fish in skillet cook for about 5 minutes, turning once cook on the other side for another 3-5 minutes till just done, do not overcook it will become dry. remove to plate to make the sauce
- Melt butter on low, once melted add the garlic and cook for about 1 minute. Be careful to not burn the garlic. Feel free to add an herb such as thyme, rosemary or even basil and simmer to meld together. At the end add the lemon juice. Add the fish back to the sauce just to reheat it a bit and serve warm, pour sauce over the fish and enjoy.