THE CLAIM
When Lemon Butter Chicken (from the blog Damn Delicious) hit Facebook a few weeks ago, it was a tidal wave of shares. Touitng a butter sauce good enough to drink, and this mouth-watering photo, it's not hard to see why. Click the link in the photo caption to see photo and recipe source.
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THE TEST
No doubt, this recipe LOOKED delicious when making it. Imagine our surprise when it really wasn't that great. Says Guinea Pig Kathy, "Maybe I used too much garlic [...], but the sauce never really thickened up and I am not quite sure what the wilted spinach did for the sauce. As for wanting to drink it? Not so much!!"
This recipe used a lot of garlic, but that seems to be the extent of the flavor complexity. If you don't have a lot of the ingredients on hand already, it seems like a somewhat expensive sauce for so little payoff. Guinea Pig Kathy says she would not attempt to make this again, even with recipe adjustments.
If you want to make something like this at home, you may want to check out this chicken scampi recipe from Allrecipes.com. It seems to be crowd favorite, with a similar concept.
CONCLUSION
Not as good as we hoped. As much as we love garlic butter sauces, this one wasn't our favorite.
