Poor Man’s Simple Garlic Sauce Recipe

Looking for a budget-friendly way to flavor your next meal? Here’s how to make a simple garlic sauce recipe with a handful of basic ingredients and no dairy!

Poor Man’s Simple Garlic Sauce Recipe

Lately, I’ve been trying to come up with more creative ways to use the food items that I already have on hand. We still love to have tasty meals, even though we don’t need to them be over-complicated.

Something I always have in my freezer is homemade chicken broth. I usually make this on a weekly or every-other-week basis depending on the meals that we are making. Chicken broth is good for so many different things and when you are making bone broth, it’s so healthy for you as well!

A few weeks ago, I wanted to come up with a very basic Garlic Sauce that I could use to favorite meals with chicken or pasta dishes. We can’t do dairy in our household because of allergies (not for all of us anyway) and I’m personally not a big fan of the milk alternatives although I do use them when I’m making things just for the kids.

So I thought, what if I could come up with a way to make a tasty sauce using very few ingredients? It would be very budget-friendly but still add that extra boost of flavor and creaminess I was looking for.

This Simple Garlic Sauce recipe is what I came up with and I will admit…I LOVE it. It’s so ridiculously easy to make and adds so much flavor to our meals! Plus it’s so simple to make, using just 5 ingredients. I hope you like it and use it as much as we do right now!

Simple Garlic Sauce Recipe

What You Need:

• 2 cups Chicken Broth
• 1 1/2 teaspoons Salt
• 4 Garlic cloves, chopped
• 3 Tablespoons Olive Oil (another oil would work too)
• Arrowroot powder (or another starch)

Start by peeling and chopping your garlic. I have trouble with my hands when I peel my garlic so I recently discovered this handy Garlic Peeler and I can’t rave about this thing enough! It really does peel the garlic without having to get your hands smelling like garlic for the next 10 days and it makes quick work of it too.

Once peeled, chop the garlic and place it into a small saucepan with about 1 tablespoon of oil.

Cook the garlic on the stove on a low/medium heat until fragrant, then add in the broth and the additional oil.

It’s going to look a little odd (especially if you burned the garlic a bit *cough cough*) but this weird oily concoction is just what you want. Let it cook until it comes to a simmer. Add in the salt.

Once the mixture is simmering, remove it from the stove and place it into your blender. THE SAUCE WILL BE HOT. Blend it in a high powered blender (I have a Blendtec) for about 30 seconds. I cover the top with a cloth while I’m holding the lid on because the mixture will be very hot and it will splash. USE CAUTION.

Pour the creamy mixture back into the saucepan and put it back on a low/medium heat to bring it to a simmer. Mix a small amount (about a teaspoon or less, we don’t want to make a thick gravy!) of arrowroot powder into a little water and then slowly stir it into the simmering sauce just to thicken it up a little bit.

That’s it! Now you have a yummy, creamy sauce that you can add to your meals or put over noodles. Since we make it with only tiny amounts of ingredients and chicken broth (which is technically a “leftover” anyways) this sauce costs very little to make, hence the name Poor Man’s Garlic Sauce!

I hope that you enjoy this cheap recipe as much as we do.

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Simple Garlic Sauce Recipe

How to make a creamy simple garlic sauce without any dairy!

Course Main Course

Cuisine Italian

Keyword simple garlic sauce

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 cups Chicken Broth
• 1 1/2 teaspoons Salt
• 4 Garlic cloves chopped
• 3 Tablespoons Olive Oil
• Arrowroot powder

Instructions

1. Start by peeling and chopping your garlic.
2. Once peeled, chop the garlic and place it into a small saucepan with about 1 tablespoon of oil.
3. Cook the garlic on the stove on a low/medium heat until fragrant, then add in the broth and the additional oil.
4. Let it cook until it comes to a simmer. Add in the salt.
5. Once the mixture is simmering, remove it from the stove and place it into your blender. THE SAUCE WILL BE HOT. Blend it in a high powered blender for about 30 seconds. I cover the top with a cloth while I'm holding the lid on because the mixture will be very hot and it will splash. USE CAUTION.
6. Pour the creamy mixture back into the saucepan and put it back on a low/medium heat to bring it to a simmer. Mix a small amount (about a teaspoon or less, we don't want to make a thick gravy!) of arrowroot powder into a little water and then slowly stir it into the simmering sauce just to thicken it up a little bit.

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