The Best Cajun Butter Sauce

This is the best cajun butter sauce recipe! Also know as seafood boil sauce this sauce is so easy to make with butter, garlic, onion, honey, and cajun seasoning. Use it as a seafood dipping sauce, as a sauce for crab legs or as a marinade. 

Why you will love this recipe:

• This homemade seafood butter sauce has the most incredible flavour and is so tasty! 
• This authentic seafood boil sauce is so quick and easy to make! It's ready in just a few minutes.
• It's made with simple, pantry staple ingredients including butter, garlic, honey, and onion. 
• This Lobster cajun butter sauce can be used for shrimp, as a dipping sauce for crab legs, for seafood, for chicken, and for other meats. 
• This simple sauce can be used in so many ways - as a dip, for a seafood boil, or as a marinade. 
• This cajun garlic butter sauce is really versatile and I've included options for making it dairy free and vegan too. 
• This sauce recipe is made with no cream and is naturally gluten free and refined sugar free.
• You can make this sauce as mild or as spicy as you like.
• It keeps really well and can also be frozen for later so it's great for meal prep. 
• This sauce is great to serve at parties, potlucks, cookouts and picnics.

Taste and texture:

This tasty butter sauce is a little spicy, a little sweet, and so creamy and buttery. The chopped onions add a delicious savoury flavour and a little texture to the smooth, melted butter to make this sauce a little thicker. This sauce melts in your mouth with every bite!

Key ingredients and substitutions: 

• Unsalted butter - unsalted butter forms the base of this delicious butter sauce. I recommend using unsalted butter rather than salted butter. If you are dairy free or vegan use a vegan butter instead. 
• Onion - freshly chopped onion helps add delicious flavour and texture to this cajun sauce. 
• Garlic - fresh garlic adds even more savoury flavour to this sauce recipe. 
• Apple cider vinegar - this helps contrast the other flavours in this butter sauce. Instead of apple cider vinegar you can also use lemon juice. 
• Honey - honey adds the perfect amount of sweetness to this sauce. I recommend using raw, unpasteurized honey for the most health benefits. If you are vegan, you can use maple syrup instead. 
• Cajun seasoning - it wouldn't be a cajun sauce without cajun seasoning! You can either make your own cajun seasoning or use a store bought cajun seasoning. Instead of cajun seasoning you can also use creole seasoning too. 

How to make this recipe: 

Step one:

First, in a small saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat on the stovetop.

Step two:

Once the butter is melted turn the heat down to low and add the onion and garlic and simmer for about 5 minutes, until the onion is translucent.

Step three:

Then stir in the cajun seasoning, honey and apple cider vinegar and simmer for few minutes, until the sauce has the thickness or consistency that you prefer.

Step four:

Lastly, remove the pot from the heat and serve!

Recipe tips:

• If you prefer a thicker sauce, allow the sauce to simmer for even longer to thicken even more. 
• Instead of cajun seasoning you can use creole seasoning to turn this into creole butter sauce. 
• You can use any type of onion that you like for this sauce including white onion, yellow onion or sweet onion. 
• I recommend using unsalted butter for this recipe rather than salted butter.
• If you don't have apple cider vinegar you can use another vinegar of your choice such as white vinegar or rice vinegar or lemon juice.
• If you are serving a crowd feel free to double or triple this recipe.

Recipe variations: 

• To make this into a vegan cajun butter sauce: use a vegan butter and maple syrup instead of honey. 
• To make this sauce dairy free and lactose free use a vegan butter.
• If you like a less spicy sauce, decrease the amount of cajun seasoning you add. 
• If you like a sweeter sauce, add a bit more honey. 
• To turn this into lemon cajun butter sauce use lemon juice instead of apple cider vinegar. 

How to use this sauce:

This homemade sauce can be used in so many ways! Here are some of my favourites.

• Dipping Sauce - the easiest way to use this sauce is as a dipping sauce for seafood. Serve it with grilled shrimp, pan fried shrimp or baked shrimp, vegan shrimp, cooked crab legs, cooked lobster, or any other cooked seafood. You could also use it as a dipping sauce for vegetables or meats. 
• Marinade - you can use this sauce as a marinade for crab, shrimp, lobster tails, chicken, steak, chicken wings, salmon, corn, other vegetables, and other fish or meats. 
• Seafood Boil Butter Sauce - use this sauce to make a seafood boil or crawfish boil. Place your seafood in a large pot, cover it with water and then boil it for the recommended amount of time. Save some of the boiling water and mix it with the butter sauce. Then drain the seafood and toss it in the cajun sauce. Then serve and enjoy!
• Use it as a sauce for pasta!

How to store:

Store any leftover crab boil sauce in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 7 days. 

It can also be frozen and freezes well for up to 6 months. 

Frequently asked questions: 

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