What Is Garlic butter and How Can I Use It?

If garlic butter has turned up in a recipe or caught your eye at the store, here's what you need to use it with confidence and how to choose it, cook it, store it, what to substitute, and 4 recipes to try it in.

Recipes using garlic butter

There are 4 recipes that contain this ingredient.

Barbecued Squid

Barbecued squid grilled hot and fast over hardwood coals, served with lemon-garlic butter and Thai sweet-hot chili sauce. The simplest seafood preparation that turns out tender, smoky, and never rubbery.

Shrimp or Scallops Provencal

Plump shrimp or scallops seared in garlic butter with sweet red pepper strips and a bright squeeze of lemon. This 5-ingredient Provencal-style seafood dinner is on the table in 30 minutes over steamed rice.

Pesto Salmon & Sea Scallops with Garlic

Pesto-crusted salmon and sea scallops bake together over a bed of garlic butter sauce. A 5-ingredient seafood dinner with herby green pesto, golden breadcrumbs, and silky scallop sweetness.

Red Lobster Garlic Cheese Rolls

Surprise your family at the next gathering with these scrumptious appetizers that are sure to put a smile on everyone's face.

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