If you are like me you love the garlic dipping sauce from Papa John’s. I love this buttery garlic sauce; it is the perfect dipping sauce for pizza. Delicious yes, healthy well, chances are you aren’t eating pizza to start with.
You might wonder how you can make your garlic dipping sauce for pizza that is similar to Papa John’s. I have a recipe for you. Papa John’s garlic dipping sauce is a creamy garlic sauce that is perfect to dip those pizza crusts into. When you make it from scratch, you can use it for so many more things. You can spread it on bread for a simple garlic toast, or even spread some on a steak just before serving.
Now, let me first say, their dipping sauce is vegan, so if you want to duplicate what they do truly, I suggest you use a brand of buttery like sauce like Smart Balance which is vegan. It has good flavor and will make an excellent sauce. I know a lot of recipes online suggest that you use margarine. I personally dislike margarine. I tend to feel that if you are going to enjoy a buttery sauce, why not use butter.
What’s the problem? Butter separates and gets weird. I have a suggestion for you though. We are going to make our sauce with clarified butter. By taking this extra step, you will end up with a creamy, buttery sauce that you can use to dip pizza into or even spread on some bread or a piece of steak. When you clarify butter, you will separate out the milk solids so what you are left with is butter with only that is entirely clear, and it won’t separate.
When you make clarified butter, you will lose some of the butter in the process. So you will end up with about 25% less. You will end up with a rich, intense butter flavor that will be amazing, and you will be certain to love dipping your pizza slices into this sauce.
Better Than Papa John's Garlic Dipping Sauce
Ingredients
- 1/4 pound salted butter
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Place butter into a small sauce pan over low heat. Allow the butter to gently melt. Do not stir the butter while it is melting. The butter will separate into three different layers. The butter will become foamy on top. There will be clear layer in the middle. Towards the bottom of the pan will be a layer of the milk solids.When the foamy layer forms. Spoon off the foamy layer and discard. Gently decant the middle layer of the butter into a small dish. You should end up with about a tablespoon of milk solids in the bottom of the pan. Discard the milk solids.Stir in garlic powder and salt until dissolved. The garlic butter is now shelf stable and does not need refrigeration.
Carrie says
May 16, 2019 at 8:46 pmI love garlic, but we made this and two teaspoons was completely overwhelming. The idea was good but the proportions were way off for us and didn’t taste like the Papa John’s sauce we were craving.
Stephanie says
May 17, 2019 at 4:04 amI am sorry you didn’t like it.
Chrissy says
May 13, 2019 at 6:32 pmI loved it, I could drink it by the gallon.
*Facepalm* says
January 18, 2019 at 3:04 pmSome of these comments show more peolpe need to cook IN rather than eat OUT all the time.
No, garlic powder, granulated, or fresh will NOT mix with the oil from the clarified butter. However if you let it sit for a day or two, or use infused evoo, the oils will take on the garlic flavor. Then you have to strain it to remove the garlic. Now you have something more like PJ’s dip.
Amy Yanda says
September 28, 2018 at 9:19 amI mix 1/2 olive oil, 1/2 butter
Minced garlic
Parmesan
And a pinch of oregano
Salt and pepper to taste
DanielDan says
September 17, 2018 at 3:20 amNow no one has to fight over the garlic butter. Yes!
MWHstd says
May 28, 2018 at 7:14 pmI would like to mention that Papa John’s sauce is not vegan. Lactic acid comes from milk. Very misleading.
107643 says
June 17, 2018 at 8:47 amIndustry lactic acid does not come from milk, bacteria produce it. Many vegan products contain it.
Loser says
May 19, 2018 at 6:42 pmThis recipe sucks. It does not work
Lizzyizzy says
May 9, 2018 at 12:56 pmI found that the most effective way to recreate the sauce is to not entirely melt the butter, so it remains partially a solid. This way, when you mid your Salt and garlic powder in, nothing falls to the bottom. The soft, sticky butter hold all the seasonings the same.
Thomas says
February 10, 2018 at 5:25 amWill salted butter suffice?
Stephanie says
February 10, 2018 at 6:48 amYes it will work.
HashBoy says
December 24, 2017 at 12:17 pmSome of the confusion in the comments in regards to the garlic not mixing in a probably due to semantics. Many people call granualized garlic, garlic powder when they are 2 very different things. I would not expect granualized garlic to mix very well, where as garlic power would.
Trina says
August 23, 2017 at 7:48 pmYou have a typo… you put you instead of your.
Nick says
May 2, 2019 at 10:23 amGet a life.
Tom says
July 21, 2017 at 2:43 pmThe picture can’t be correct. The garlic powder doesn’t dissolve and just sits as a brown powder below the clarified butter. This was a waste of butter.
Glen says
August 3, 2017 at 8:03 pmTry a different form of garlic instead of the garlic powder. I used a garlic paste out of a tube since I didn’t have any powder on hand, and it worked fine. Also, if using salted butter, it doesn’t really need any more salt. I have also created it just using Smart Balance in a microwave, and that was much less of a hassle, too.
Glen says
August 3, 2017 at 8:04 pmLemon butter works too 🙂
Ole says
October 6, 2017 at 5:02 pmYou should try a different brand then!
Judith Morrison says
January 25, 2017 at 9:06 pmIf you use crushed garlic rather than garlic powder, how much would you use? Thank you