# Lemon Butter Sauce

A super easy and simple lemon butter sauce that anyone can make, perfect for fish or chicken.

- Category: Sauce & Condiment
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 cup wine
- 0.5 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1 lemon
- salt
- pepper
- cold butter

## Instructions

1. Pour wine into a pot and reduce by half, simmering away.
2. Add heavy whipping cream to the reduced wine and bring to a boil, reducing by half.
3. Squeeze quartered lemons into the boiling cream and wine mixture and let it come back to a boil.
4. Add salt and pepper to taste.
5. Whisk in cold butter a little bit at a time to emulsify with the cream and wine.
6. Strain the sauce to remove lemon pieces and any seeds.

## Equipment

- pot
- whisk
- strainer

## Tips

- If you walk away from the sauce, you're gonna burn it.
- The alcohol will burn off the wine during reduction.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=saved&v=539837005707591
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/eab7f3d5-e47f-4e9b-b3c1-d68d3262bebd
- Extracted: 2025-09-05

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