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Garlic butter fish is one of the best fish recipes, pan-fried with garlic butter sauce. This garlic butter fish recipe takes 20 mins. Serve alone or with pasta for a wholesome dinner.
Fish Recipes
I love fish and enjoy all kinds of fish recipes such as baked cod, swai fish and tilapia recipes.
Halibut is one of my favorite firm white fish. It has a mild and delicate taste, with a perfect texture for homemade fish recipes.
I went to a seafood market and got some fresh halibut fillets because they are so delicious.
I made two recipes from the fish: Ginger Soy Fish and this easy Garlic Butter Fish.
Garlic and butter are two magic ingredients that go well with all kinds of proteins, including fish recipes.
Looking for more easy and delicious fish recipes? Check out my Lemon Butter Swai Fish recipe!
Garlic Butter Sauce
How to make garlic butter sauce for fish recipes?
This magical sauce is very easy to make and calls for four simple ingredients:
- Minced garlic
- Melted butter
- Lemon juice
- Chopped parsley
A perfect ratio of each ingredient is important for the best Garlic Butter Sauce recipe, which you can get from my recipe card below.
Please refer to the recipe card at the bottom of this post for full details on each ingredient.
This Garlic Butter Fish recipe is just like the ones served at seafood restaurants, except that it’s homemade and much cheaper.
The dish is perfect as a main course; it also pairs well with a simple pasta dish.
Cooking Tips
- Use a firm white fish. Other than halibut, you can also use cod, mahi mahi or pollock.
- Use a wooden spatula to gently flip the fish over while cooking. Try not to break the fish.
Frequently Asked Questions
Fish are extremely healthy and low calories. This recipe is only 355 calories per serving.
What To Serve With Garlic Butter Fish
This meal is best served as an main dish with garlic butter dipping sauce. For a wholesome meal and easy weeknight dinner, I recommend the following recipes.
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Garlic Butter Fish
Ingredients
- 12 oz. (350g) firm white fish fillet , halibut, cod or pollock fillet
- salt
- ground black pepper
- 3 dashes cayenne pepper
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons cooking oil
- lemon wedges
Garlic Butter Sauce
- 1/2 stick salted butter, 4 tablespoons, melted
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
Instructions
- Cut the fish into pieces, not too thin, for easy pan-frying. Season the fish with salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper. Coat the fish with cornstarch. Set aside.
- Prepare the garlic butter sauce by mixing all the ingredients together. Set aside.
- Heat a skillet (preferably non-stick) over medium heat. Add the cooking oil, and once the oil is heated, pan-fry the fish in a single layer until both sides are crispy and golden brown.
- Use a wooden spatula or tongs to gently flip the fish over. Try not to break the fish.
- Remove the fish from the skillet and drain on paper towels. Toss the fish with the garlic butter sauce and serve immediately with lemon wedges.
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Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I made this for a quick Wednesday dinner. It was really good. Definitely going to add this to my list of easy recipes.
Thanks.
Do you have Brazilian garlic chicken recipe ( frango passarinho recipe?
I don’t.
Cooked this tonight, delicious! Bought Tilapia fillets, common at the stores here in San Diego. Just my wife and I, two fillets (2.5lbs) no left overs. Paired with the one pot spinach tomato pasta. We used the Barilla Veggie Spaghetti. Thank you!
Sounds yummy!! Thanks for trying my recipe.
Hi there, can I use frozen fish?
Yes you can!
I used catfish nuggets as it is firm enough to hold up. Catfish is a mild fish so I used a little more salt and pepper. Wonderful outcome. It saves on the pocket book also as our supermarket has them year round for $2.35 per lbs.
Awesome!
I made this dish tonight with pieces of halibut I got relatively inexpensively from an online seafood seller. I made “lobster rolls” with it and added a spicy mayo– altho it didn’t need it. It was so delicious! I get most of my recipes online and some are good, some don’t come out quite right, and some–like this one– are AMAZING! I can totally see serving this with a side of pasta. My husband and I have a saying for meals like this: “I would order this in a restaurant”. PS: you can cut down the amount of butter if you want–I did and it came out just fine!
Awesome Linda, please try more recipes on my site!
Linda don’t think my comment went thru but could you email to me address of fish market online. Thak you.
Can I use full size fillets or must it be cut up in pieces?
You can use full size fillet but it’s not going to taste as good if you don’t cut up.
Omg this was soooo delicious! My bf and I loved it! And not to mention, the recipe was super simple! Thank you!
Awesome please try more recipes!
Excellent recipes always, I am new at cooking all over again as I did in my younger days. Now with the home restriction Im addicted to internet recipes, and am tring this with the recommended dimple pasta. Love you! My email address is available for other good reciped I live in Panama neat the bog ditch. Arthur and Tatiana Marohl, amarohls@gmail.com
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I just discovered your website yesterday and made this! Fantastic! Also made the marinated tomatoes, which were also so yummy! Thank you, Thank you!!!