How to Prepare Perfect Lemon Butter Sauce for Roasted Chicken

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Lemon Butter Sauce for Roasted Chicken. Begin by preparing a lemon butter. Season with salt and pepper and mix well. The chicken is then smothered in a lemon butter sauce with garlic that adds so much flavor to the chicken.

Lemon Butter Sauce for Roasted Chicken Cauliflower rice would also be a good healthier alternative to the orzo. I love how that bit of extra sauce goes with the orzo, perfect match. Plus orzo is so lazy and easy. You can have Lemon Butter Sauce for Roasted Chicken using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Lemon Butter Sauce for Roasted Chicken

  1. You need 1/4 cup of or 57 gram butter.
  2. You need 1/4 cup of honey.
  3. It's 4 cloves of garlic, minced.
  4. Prepare 2 tbsp of freshly squeezed lemon juice.
  5. It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
  6. It's 1 tbsp of fresh chopped parsley.

After I posted my Chicken Francaise recipe, I got a little addicted to the buttery, lemony chicken pasta, but I wanted a quicker, easier version for weeknights. So this Chicken in White Wine Lemon Butter Sauce was born. To make the lemon butter sauce, add some more butter to the skillet. There will still be some brown bits from the chicken, but that's fine - that's flavor!

Lemon Butter Sauce for Roasted Chicken step by step

  1. Preheat the oven to 150°C (300°F). In the small pan, melt the butter, mix all other ingredients together until well-combined.
  2. Pour the sauce over store-bought roasted chicken (I use roasted honey chicken).
  3. Bake 150°C (300°F), 15–20 minutes..
  4. Ready to serve. This sauce really elevates the taste of the chicken..

To the butter add some minced garlic and stir and cook for about a minute or two before adding the lemon juice and zest, chicken broth, heavy cream and parsley. A professional chef's secret weapon, this nutty brown butter sauce is ready in mere minutes and works citrusy magic on fish, chicken, or vegetables. Lemon butter sauce is phenomenal on Pan Seared Scallops, a fillet of grilled salmon, or Baked Cod and Lemon Rice Pilaf. Tender, juicy chicken breasts bathing in a creamy lemon butter sauce that (impossible though it may sound) contains no cream, this easy chicken dinner is Paleo friendly, keto friendly, and people-who-love-delicious-food extra friendly. This recipe also includes two healthy food groups, making it a complete meal.