The most amazing 5-ingredient Honey Garlic Butter sauce ready in minutes with only a few simple ingredients!
Honey Garlic Butter is fast, EASY to make and versatile! Pair it with anything, from this incredibly popular and reader favourite honey garlic butter roasted carrots, to browned butter honey garlic chicken or buttery honey garlic shrimp! Dinner has never been easier!
How to Make Honey Garlic Butter
This sauce/marinade has been one of your favourite sauces/marinades on Cafe Delites. Since sharing this Honey Garlic Butter Salmon back in 2016, I have received countless emails from readers asking for more ideas and serving suggestions to use this sauce!
All you need is 5 ingredients. FIVE:
- Butter — use unsalted and adjust the amount of salt when taste testing.
- Honey — any honey is fine to use.
- Garlic — fresh garlic is best but you can use store bought minced garlic if pressed for time.
- Lemon juice (or vinegar) — cuts through the sweetness of the honey. You can leave it out if you wish, but the acidity adds another depth of flavour in the sauce. If using vinegar, you can use white or apple cider!
- Parsley — swap out parsley for rosemary or thyme to add another flavour profile to this incredible Honey Garlic Butter!
Throw everything in a small saucepan or pot so all of the ingredients blend and melt through each other! EASY!
When To Use This Honey Garlic Butter Sauce
For Salmon or Fish:
You can use this honey garlic butter salmon in foil recipe, and if you wish, swap for your fish of choice. You can also sear them straight on a pan and drizzle with sauce, similar to my Browned Butter Honey Garlic Salmon.
For Chicken Breasts or Thighs:
Pan-fry or bake chicken with half of the sauce until cooked through, then pour the remaining sauce over the chicken for maximum flavour. If you’d like me to publish a recipe for chicken, please let me know in the comment section below! For a different spin on this sauce, try my Browned Butter Honey Garlic Chicken. You could also substitute for pork in my Easy Honey Garlic Pork Chops
For Shrimp:
Pan-fry or grill them on skewers like in this honey garlic butter shrimp and pineapple skewers recipe! If you don’t want to use skewers, pan fry your shrimp with half of the honey garlic butter, then drizzle over the remaining sauce when your shrimp are cooked! If you’d like me to publish a recipe for shrimp, please let me know in the comment section below!
With the perfect balance of sweet and savoury, this honey garlic butter sauce is so addictive you’ll want to drizzle it over anything and everything, or even drink it straight out of the pan!
Honey Garlic Butter Recipe
Ingredients
- ¼ cup unsalted butter melted
- ¼ cup honey
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice fresh squeezed, or 1 tablespoon white vinegar
- ¼-1/2 teaspoon salt adjust to taste
- 1 tablespoons fresh parsley chopped
Instructions
- In a small saucepan, melt the butter over low-medium heat. Add the honey and garlic; whisk until the honey has melted through the butter and the mixture is well combined. Pour in the lemon juice (or vinegar), season with salt and add parsley.
- Best cooked or served with salmon, chicken, shrimp, fish, scallops, oysters.
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Karen J says
I made this using tempura fried shrimp. Served over steamed rice, it was great and the shrimp stayed crispy.. The sauce was a bit too sweet for us, so I think I will reduce the amount of honey and increase the lemon juice or vinegar next time.
Mark says
Good sauce, but I added soy in order to get that rich brown color.
Lisa C. says
Ooooh, this was good!! Did the carrots (they were a hit), but I can see how this sauce would be great on a many things. I like the shrimp idea! Thanks
Barb says
I used this butter to cook sweet potato noodles. It is fantastic! I made the sauce in one pan and added the noodles from 1 large sweet potato. Easy clean up and so delicious! I also use it on carrots almost every week. I roast a big batch and then snack on them cold for a few days after. Thank you for such a versatile recipe.
Carla Griffis says
AWESOME!!!!!! This is the “bomb” for shrimp!!!!
Miracle says
Can you post a recipe for chicken using this garlic honey buttery.
Thanks
mark says
Your recipes look great and nice page too! I am actually doing the chicken wings today but I have no rack so I am sure they will still be great. I am looking forward to making the Honey Garlic Butter sometime and maybe even for the shrimp or something. Nice job! Cheers!
Melissa says
Coukd you sub olive oil or coconut oil for butter for a vegan version?
Karina says
Yes, of course! Thank you for choosing one of my recipes! XO
Heidi says
This sauce is so amazing! I’m so glad you finally put it up here. I was a huge fan of it with the salmon and would love to see how exactly you make it with shrimp. Thanks.