Lemon Butter Sauce for Fish

Recipe VIDEO above (helpful for pre-post browned butter). A Lemon Butter Sauce with Crispy Pan Fried Fish that would be perfectly at home in a posh restaurant, yet is so quick to make at home! Browning the butter gives the sauce a rich, nutty aroma which pairs beautifully with fresh lemon, as well as thickening the sauce and giving it a gorgeous golden colour.

This Lemon Butter Sauce for fish is outrageous – 3 minutes, 2 ingredients, totally restaurant worthy.

The secret is browned butter – called Beurre noisette in French. Learn how to pronounce it so you can loftily tell your family and friends “we’re having French tonight!” 

And so I present to you, your new favourite posh-yet-easy-and-super-quick way with fish: Pan fried until golden then drizzled with a 3 minute Lemon Butter Sauce that you’re going to go nuts over.The Lemon Butter Sauce is just made with butter and lemon. But it’s not “just” butter and lemon.

It’s brown butter and lemon.If you’re new to brown butter, this is going to change your world – it’s addictive. Brown butter is everything you love about melted butter, boosted with an incredible nutty, toasty aroma.

The French call it Beurre noisette. The literal translation is “hazelnut butter”, and even though hazelnuts don’t come into the equation at all, we get it. 

LEMON BUTTER SAUCE FOR FISH

Author : Nagi

Prep : 5 mins

Cook : 10 mins

Total : 15 mins

Servings : 2

INGREDIENTS

LEMON BUTTER SAUCE

• 60 g / 4 tbsp unsalted butter , cut into pieces
• 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
• Salt and finely ground pepper

CRISPY PAN FRIED FISH

• 2 x thin white fish fillets (120-150g / 4-5oz each), skinless boneless (I used Bream, Note 1)
• Salt and pepper
• 2 tbsp white flour
• 2 tbsp oil (I use canola)

SERVING

• Lemon wedges
• Finely chopped parsley, optional

INSTRUCTIONS

Get the full instruction @recipetineats.com

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