Lemon Butter Fish Recipe

This easy Lemon Butter Fish recipe is a light, flavorful dinner featuring tender, flaky white fish in a rich homemade lemon butter sauce. Ready in about 20 minutes, it’s the perfect quick weeknight meal that’s both elegant enough for guests and simple enough for busy evenings. Fresh lemon juice, zest, butter, and garlic create a bright, savory sauce that pairs beautifully with rice, steamed vegetables, or a crisp green salad. Whether you use cod, haddock, mahi-mahi, or another mild white fish, this simple lemon butter fish recipe is sure to become a family favorite.

Lemon Butter Fish

This easy Lemon Butter Fish recipe is a light, flavorful dinner featuring tender, flaky white fish in a rich homemade lemon butter sauce. Ready in about 20 minutes, it's the perfect quick weeknight meal that's both elegant enough for guests and simple enough for busy evenings.

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Total Time 20 minutes mins

Servings: 6

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: American

Ingredients Method

Ingredients

  

• 6 thick, flaky white fish filets of your choice
• 1 lemon, zested and juiced
• 4 tbsp butter
• 1/2 cup broth
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• rice and salad or vegetables for serving

Method

 

1. Pat fish filets dry with a paper towel. Season both sides with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. In a large skillet, put a drizzle of oil. Cook the fish in this over medium to medium high heat for 2-3 minutes per side, until it is flaky and just opaque. Do not overcook. Remove from skillet.
2. In the same skillet, melt in butter, then pour in lemon juice, zest, and broth. Stir to combine over medium heat. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

   Return fish to skillet off heat. To serve, place fish filet over a bed of rice and spoon the lemon butter sauce over top. Pairs well with salad or steamed vegetables.