A recipe for zesty lemon garlic butter that's perfect on meat, fish or vegetables and will be great when bbq season starts. This beautiful citrus butter is so easy to make and really versatile too! We love it on freshly cooked corn on the cob.

This lemon garlic butter is such a simple recipe to make and it's brilliant on freshly barbecued corn on the cob! In fact, it's brilliant on so many things. You just have to make it in time for your next barbecue. Or next time you choose to air fry some corn!
Imagine this zesty butter with steak, veggie kebabs or beautifully charred fish! Go on! I know I've already tempted you just by that first picture.
Is this lemon garlic butter just for barbecued food?
Not at all! It's a brilliant butter recipe to make when barbecuing but it's also great on food cooked inside. It's perfect on boiled or steamed vegetables. You can also spread it on a chicken before roasting it to give it loads of flavour.
How do you make garlic lemon butter?
This compound butter is so easy to make. It only has 3 ingredients!
And they are of course butter, garlic and lemon. You don't need the whole lemon, just the zest. I never have a problem finding something else to squeeze the lemon juice onto though. I make a lot of recipes with lemons!
To make the lemon garlic butter you just need the butter to be at room temperature. You crush the garlic and then mash the garlic and lemon zest into the butter.
If you want to be able to slice it into rounds then put the butter on a sheet on cling film and wrap it up like a sausage. Put it in the fridge to harden.
Alternatively you can just put it in a ramekin and use a knife to scrape it out to spread on things.
Can you adapt this easy lemon garlic butter?
It's such a simple recipe with only three ingredients but yes, you can adapt it. Why not make it with lime instead of lemon zest? Add lots of black pepper for a black pepper and lemon butter.
You can even change it completely by adding spices. Use your favourite curry powder and serve it in exactly the same way!
How to store this butter?
You can keep this butter in the fridge for about 5 days. If you want to keep it for longer then it will freeze for about 6 months. Just defrost in the fridge overnight before using or on the kitchen counter if you need it to defrost more quickly.
Weber's American Barbecue
When I first made this lemon and garlic butter I was so into barbecuing. I'd just been sent a copy of Weber's American Barbecue and I was keen to be more adventurous. After all, normally we just cook burgers, sausages and veggie kebabs on ours!
If you've ever felt that your barbecues could be more exciting then just read this book and you will be inspired.
Gone are the days when going round for a bbq at someone's house meant just overcooked sausages and burgers. These days barbecuing has become trendy and an art form in itself.
Before you even start cooking there's a choice of different types of barbecue. Do you want a water smoker, a charcoal grill or a gas grill? And once you've chosen your barbecue, there's so much more that you can do with it than a simple burger or hot dog.

Weber's American Barbecue: A Modern Spin on the Classics is a fantastic resource for when the weather gets warm enough to cook outside again. Whatever type of barbecue you have there are recipes to suit it. The recipes are so varied too.
As you'd expect, there are fantastic recipes for red meat, chicken and seafood but also great ideas for starters and sides as well as a great selection of recipes for homemade sauces, brines, marinades and rubs. There is even a recipe for iced cinnamon buns!

As well as a recipe book with lots of practical tips, it's a great book to just sit down, relax and read. I especially enjoyed the special features about current barbecue techniques and trends across the US.
The US is undoubtedly way ahead of us in barbecuing but these trends are set to become popular over here too. The supermarkets are already stocking a range of wood chips to give a fantastic smoky flavour to your food.
My recipe for Lemon garlic butter
I personally can't wait for us to get some warm weather so I can try out some of the recipes at home. In the meantime I'd love to share my simple recipe for lemon garlic butter.
It's great on corn on the cob and green vegetables and I've also had it on white fish. It's a simple compound butter recipe that can lift a midweek meal or add something special next time you have a barbecue.

More Recipes you might like
If you're looking for more tasty flavoured butter recipes then do take a look at my Indian Spiced Butter. It's another real favourite of ours with corn on the cob.
If you just want to cook more recipes on the barbecue then how about one of these easy barbecue recipes?
Recipe

Lemon Garlic Butter
Ingredients
- 100 g butter at room temperature
- 1 lemon, zest only
- 2 cloves garlic crushed
Instructions
- Mash the garlic and lemon zest into the butter with a fork.
- Put the butter on some cling film and roll it up into a fat sausage shape.
- Put in the fridge until you need it.
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Claire
The butter is gorgeous! I've made it a few times and we especially like it on new potatoes.
Corina Blum
Thanks Claire! I think it's great on new potatoes too although I rarely do them as my family all prefer crispy ones!
Beth
I have been having fun with compound butters this summer, too! I love the sound of this lemon and garlic! Great on fish, too!
Corina
Oh yes, fish is wonderful with a good butter. I love simple butters like this!
Natalie Crossan
I like BBQ spare ribs 😀 xxx
Adrian Bold
Bratwurst basted in BBQ sauce is just lovely!
Robyn Clarke
We love marinading steak in a marinade made from tomato sauce, coke and barbeque sauce.
Shirley A Evans
LOVE HOME MADE LAMB KEBABS
Lyndsey Shingler
I love doing a spatchcock chicken on the barbecue. I normally make an Indian spiced butter and put that under the skin and it comes out so juicy. It'd also work great with your lemon garlic butter recipe!
Angela L Paull
Every Christmas Eve we cook a whole salmon on the BBQ. We stuff it with herbs and lemon, wrap it in water soaked newspaper and it tastes amazing!
Jo @ Jo's Kitchen Larder
It's got to be ribs. I tend to pre-cook them in the oven first and then finish on the bbq for the smoky touch! 🙂 Another one has got to be halloumi which I only discovered last year, absolutely in love with this squeaky cheese especially when cooked on bbq. Your lemon garlic butter is pretty much perfect accompaniment to any bbq veggies, will be definitely trying it out!
Corina
I love ribs too Jo but haven't ever done them on the bbq! That's got to be something for me to try this summer. We also love halloumi and it always makes a great vegetarian option too.
Stuart Payne
banana with chocolate and marshmallow wrapped in foil on the BBQ
Teresa sheldon
I my favourite BBQ recipe is my homemade chilli burgers just enough kick but not to much that it spoils the taste of the beef
GEORGE WILLIAMSON
marinated chicken
Sirley Young
I love marinated pork on the BBQ
Lorraine Stone
We use a Worcestershire sauce, mustard, oil dressing.
Victoria Thurgood
chicken and pineapple kebabs
Louise Ryves
I love making my own garlic and parsley Marin a deep for prawns and cooking them with veg on skewers
Matt Brasier
I like a good burger on the BBQ!
JUDITH LUSCOMBE
Chicken on skewers with satay sauce is my favourite.
laura stewart
BBQ salmon with honey & soy sounds yummy
julia Linsley
beer chicken bbq
Suzanne Brown
Not a recipe exactly, but I always have a pan full of fried mushrooms and another full of fried onions for adding to the burger buns, sausages, etc. delicious!
Amy Cray
Chicken breast stuffed with cheese and wrapped in bbq sauce and bacon
Sion Gibby
Trout with lemon and parsley !
Rebecca
Lamb mash mint sauce yum x
Tammy Neal
Marinated chicken Kebabs x
Hayley Todd
I absolutely love making Tamarind Squash and Halloumi Skewers to accompany our BBQ - they are so tasty and filled with a stunning mixture of sweet + savoury and they are a totally scrumptious accompaniment to BBQ ribs, steak and chops!
karen watt
minted lamb kebabs
Simon Keeping
My wife makes an amazing cajun rub which we use on chicken and pork steaks, simply gorgeous on the BBQ
Karen Dixon
Bbq lamb mixed together with fresh min and mayonaisse
Deborah Pettit
my hubby is a bbq fanatic, will be asking him to make this and more delicious recipes from the book, cant wait.
Miss Tracy Hanson
Beef burger topped with garlic mayo and then in a toasted brioche bun. Yum! Making me hungry now.
minnie
BBQ and garlic chicken
natalee gosiewski
i like to make home made marinade and marinade my different meats over night b4 bbq
Julie Camm
Lamb with middle Eastern spices....
Carol Boffey
Hot dogs
Karen Painter
Fruity Skewers made with chunks of pineapple, banana, apple and mango
EMMA KINSEY
MINTED LAMB BURGERS
adrian price
chicken wings with maple syrup
Kirsty Sparks
I love chicken legs on a BBQ 🙂
Josie Bicknell
You can't beat a good old fashioned leg of lamb with a mint and rosemary rub cooked slowly on the barbecue with a green salad and fresh bread
karen Howden
I just love plain sausages cooked on a bbq
A.E. ADKINS
Has to be a good rare ribeye
Sarah Austin
I love chicken kebabs
MICHELLE Stewart
chocolate bananas wrapped in foil
Karl Borowy
spicey chicken
Tracey S Anderson
A firm favourite of ours is cajun chicken thighs and drumsticks marianted overnight served with garlic butter chargrilled corn on the cob ... Yum! x
Joanna Kasznicki
beef kebabs marinated in a bbq sauce are yummy
Christopher Read
My favourite is BBQ chicken wings
Tasha
Chicken in BBQ sauce
Lauren Old
Mine is pulled pork in barbecue sauce
Donna Caldwell
My favourite BBQ recipe is strawberries in amerretto and a little sugar heated on the BBQ for about 5 mins serve with vanilla ice cream
Anne Alexis O
Family favourite for those with a sweet tooth.....BBQ bananas and pineapple with cinnamon & brown sugar....delish with ice cream!
Sheila Reeves
I love halloumi and spicy pork kebabs, so tasty
Aaron Milne
BBQ -Can't beat a BURGER
Susan B
I make parsley butter and garlic butter before the BBQ, chill it then and add it generously to the foil-wrapped , sliced jacket potatoes which we drop into the embers to cook. Yummy.
Rebecca Howells (@PeanutHog)
Salmon and lemon with chargrilled veg kebabs
Dale Dow
I have to admit, I love making chicken kebabs x
carole n
chicken legs are always my favourite
Lisa Pond
Who doesn't love BBQ ribs? Yum yum 🙂
Allan Fullarton
Slow roast cooked pork with a lot of BBQ sauce.
Jo Hutchings
Honey and mustard chicken on the BBQ is lovely.
Sarah Williams
It looks a fab recipe. I would love to win a barbecue.
Zoe Graham
I love jerk bbq chicken
lynn neal
Chunky veg on a skewer brushed with garlic butter !
Samantha R
Grilled halloumi with mushroom... it's delicious!
Rachel Low
Pumpkin sprinkled with rock salt, balsamic glaze and coconut. Wrap in foil and BBQ!
Angela Macdonald
langoustines coated in garlic butter
greig spencer
Peri peri burgers mmmmmmmmmmmm
Keith Hunt
Tabasco Grilled Veggie Skewers
Kim M
Love pulled pork x
Tania Atfield
Chicken marinaded in teriyaki sauce
Victoria Prince
My favourite BBQ "recipe" would be salmon wrapped in foil with some lemon 🙂 As you can tell I don't really have any - so this book would be great!
Kathryn Cox
Good old steak with a good strong cheddar melted on the top and some chunky homemade coleslaw on the side
T. Brailey
I love ribs covered in BBQ sauce and cooked on BBQ. It is so easy and smells like a true bbq as it's cooking.
Sheri Darby
Simple barbecued burgers
Colin Gault
Chutney
Gemma Cook
Peri peri chicken burgers #nomnomnom
Danni Cresswell
Chicken and pineapple skewers with a jerk marinade
Emily
Chicken thighs with a spicy marinade!
janine atkin
i like to bbq marinated chicken
David Pithie
Grilled trout or salmon steaks on mesquite chips.
Allan Wilson
Banana's barbequed and served in the skin, sliced with fresh cream, a flake bar and brandy filling the sliced area. - Lush
Christina Palmer
Mince marinated in mint sauce then made into home made burgers but with cheese in the centre
Natalie Turner
A simple honey glaze on some babyback ribs, so good and sweet! Yum
Isabell Whitenstall
I put bananas on the BBQ so they are ready when we have finished out burgers and sausages.
Jason Osborn
Great prize!
Jo Hutchinson
Jerk pork and pineapple kebabs
Matthew Warman
Jerk chicken is my favourite new food!
Angie McDonald
Steaks rubbed with black pepper, mustard and paprika then barbequed!
Samantha Atherton
Barbecued Pineapple with sweet chilli & lime glaze
Natalie Thomason
Bananas drizzle d with honey and coconut wrapped in foil
cheryl hadfield
My fave bbq recipe is chicken and chorizo skewers with Cajun marinade
Ashley @ Big Flavors from a Tiny Kitchen
I am *so* ready for grilling season! We just dusted our grill off yesterday and cooked up tons of meat. This butter sounds like it'd go well on SO many different things - especially corn!
Corina
We're beginning to get some good weather but still not quite good enough to cook outside yet! I am so looking forward to it though!
Derek Campanile
So excited to be grilling again, I better get a huge batch of butter, lemon and garlic, because I'll be using it all summer long!
Corina
I'm definitely going to be using it a lot!
Allison Hanson
Oh just the picture of corn reminds me Summer is so close! Looking forward to trying this.
Steve Dickinson
Lamb chops marinated in mint and pomegranate molasses
Jacqueline Piper | PiperCooks.com
We have a little charcoal grill and I love it. We use the bag gas one too though. Can't wait for grilling season so I can try this out, I bet it would be really good on shrimp!
Amy J
i love chicken and vegetable kebabs!
Claire Woods
halloumi is great and my Mum's favourite.
Solange
I love sticky BBQ ribs.
Melissa Lee
I love chargrilled veggie kebabs on skewers, with some halloumi cheese
tamsin
honey roasted chicken
Lisa Conn
Texan style brisket slowly cooked on the BBQ is my favourite food of all time!
Traditionallymodernfood
Being vegetarian vegetables and fruit kebabs r my favorite
Amy
I'm definitely looking forward to the weather being nice (it keeps raining!) so we can grill again! Will most definitely need to try out this lemon garlic butter as it sounds fantastic!
Corina
Thanks! It was so easy and really delicious - It's amazing how a butter can make food taste so good!
Sarah Ann
I like a good burger on the BBQ! Topped with salad and a spicy tomato relish.
Sonali- The Foodie Physician
Sounds like this book is one I should check out! And I can think of so many great ways to use lemon garlic butter! Thanks for sharing!
Simon Vanbecelaere
Why don't I live in the UK? I want to win this book haha!
Always good to get inspired! Nice recipe btw! Grilled corn is awesome!
Corina
Ah such a shame you can't win it!
Sarah James @ Tales From The Kitchen Shed
We love chicken kebabs on the BBQ and we often have fish so your lemon garlic butter sounds perfect . Really looking forward to the BBQ season this year.
Kirsty Hijacked By Twins
We LOVE BBQ's as soon as the weather is good enough we have our BBQ fired up and ready to go! Our favourite BBQ food has to be my homemade burgers. Part of the fun of a BBQ is also having a great buffet too to nibble at. Great giveaway and thank you for sharing with #CookBlogShare x
Gloria @ Homemade & Yummy
I love making compounded butters. It is great on so many things. A fun way to make it different each time. This sounds delicious...and I am already thinking of all the things I could use it on.
Paul Halling
only just got a bbq but we really like sweetcorn and kebabs in a light/spicy marinade
Gillian Thompson
Simple and delicious. Would be wonderful on Corn on the cob and on fish.
Nia Clark
Beer chicken is great on a bbq
Andy Davison
Great competition 🙂
Kat Lucas
I grew up in Texas and love proper BBQ Pork burnt ends
Nico @ yumsome
I love garlic butter but I've never added lemon to it. Parsley, yes, lemon, no! I shall have to remember to do this next time I make some. Thanks for the inspo, Corina!
Ruth Harwood
Quick steak on a bun with plenty of BBQ sauce 🙂
Citra Kale @Citra's Home Diary
Yaayyy...welcome summer! Lovvee your lemon garlic butter recipe..can't wait to try it soon.
Becky John
Homemade lamb burgers with sundried tomatoes and basil.
Lorna Ledger
Home made burgers on the BBBQ, with home made salsa and salad x
Chris S
I love home made beef burgers with haloumi cheese in a bun with bananas cooked in tin foil with brown sugar and rum
Mandy
Yummy, I love garlic butter and love the sound of it with lemon too.
Corina
It is delicious and perfect on veggies!
Lorraine Kirk
I love to make a Chicken Mango marinade; mango sauce, lemon, balsamic vinegar oil and honey.
Rebecca Smith
sweet chilli king prawn skewers
ROBERT MCINTOSH
Homemade venison burgers, homemade rolls and a touch of rhubarb chutney - delicious every time
Corina
Sounds lovely! I'd love to try it but unfortunately my husband is not a big fan of venison or rhubarb!
pete c
Bananas bbq`d in tinfoil.........delicious!
Corina
I've had bbbq'd bananas years ago and they were delicious, especially with a little chocolate tucked inside too!
sarah rees
vegetable and fruit kebabs
Corina
I often do veggie ones but haven't tried fruit ones! That'll have to be something for this summer!
clair downham
large mushrooms with either stilton or garlic
Corina
I love mushrooms with garlic but I'm not a big fan of stilton. Garlicy mushrooms are always so tasty though!
amy pest
pork fillet with jerk seasoning is amazing on the bbq
Corina
I've never tried that but I'll have to!
Susan Smith
Homemade BBQ sauce with the meat marinated over night in it
Corina
We also love homemade bbq sauce!
Ray Dodds
A nice well cooked steak
Corina
Can't go wrong with a good steak!
PenoirB
Portobello mushrooms turned upside down and filled with garlic butter. Make a little tray out of tinfoil and place on the grill for about 20 mins. Lush!
Corina
Sounds delicious!
Peter Watson
Monkfish is great on the barbie.
Corina
It's ages since I've had monkfish - I'll have to try it again!
Katie
My husband does the barbequing as well. It means I get my dinner cooked! I love a spicy chicken thigh or salmon with lemon and pepper.
Corina
I'd be happy with either of those too!
Amy Fidler
Slow roast cooked pork,with Mop sauce,as great BBQ cooking ingredient x
Corina
That sounds lovely!
A S,Edinburgh
My favourite is halloumi, simply sliced and grilled with a sprinkle of lemon juice. I'd love to try cooking something a little more involved, though!
Corina
I love halloumi too. It's what I always do as my vegetarian option!
Kelly Hirst
Peri peri chicken burgers are my favourite BBQ recipe
Corina
They sound delicious!
Ann-Marie Gould
i love to marinade some chicken pieces and then put them on skewers with peppers, onion and tomato, cook over the barbecue. Lovely!
Corina
That's one of my favourite things to do too! It's always good but I'm hoping to be a bit more adventurous this year!
Morowa
Homemade Marinaded Jerk Lobster.
Corina
I've never cooked a lobster at home before but I imagine it's wonderful on the bbq!
laura banks
my hubby does marinated chicken kebabs
Corina
They sound yummy!
frances hopkins
I love trout cooked with lemon and fresh herbs
Corina
I love fresh herbs too!
Tracey Peach
I don't have a favourite BBQ recipe so I'm hoping the Weber’s American BBQ book will help me 🙂 x
Corina
Good luck!
Tracy Nixon
I love grilled Tuna steaks in a garlic marinade!
Corina
I haven't had tuna for ages! I'll have to try that.
Katie Skeoch
Live BBQ salmon with honey & soy
Corina
I bet that's delicious!
Tara Clover
Diced lamb baked in foil parcels with mint sauce.
Corina
I'll have to try that!
Harline parkin
My husbands the BBQ man in our house but I love it when he cooks a simple trout in lemon and butter wrapped in foil simple food at its best
Corina
Sounds lovely! My husband also does the bbqs normally but I'm hoping to take over a little this summer to try out some of the recipes in this book!