Grilled Fish in Lemon Butter Sauce
This restaurant style grilled fish can be prepared just under 20 minutes with a lemon butter sauce made with butter, lemon juice, salt, pepper and coriander leaves.
Ingredients
For marination
- 2 tbsp butter
- Juice from 1 lemon
- ¼ cup chopped coriander leaves
- ½ tsp red chilli flakes
- ½ tsp basil
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp pepper powder
- 300 g fish slices / fillet
- Salt to taste
For lemon butter sauce
- ⅓ cup butter
- 1 tsp minced garlic
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- ¼ tsp pepper
- ¼ cup chopped coriander leaves
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Melt butter in a pan and keep it aside.
- In a bowl add lemon juice, pepper powder, garlic powder, red chilli flakes, basil and chopped coriander leaves.
- Add the melted butter and mix well.
- Marinate the fish pieces in the butter mixture. You can leave it from 30 minutes to overnight. It tastes good even if you cook it immediately.
- In a grill pan or tawa cook the fish pieces along with e butter mixture. Cook for 7 minutes on medium flame on each side.
- Turn and cook the other side. Once done remove and place the cooked fish pieces on a plate.
- In the same pan add the butter for making the sauce. Be careful not to burn the butter.
- Once butter is melted add minced garlic cloves, lemon juice and cook on low flame for 3 minutes.
- Once the sauce thickens, add pepper powder and pour the sauce over the grilled fish pieces.
- Garnish with coriander leaves.
- Serve as such or with rice / rice of your choice.