Best Homemade Alfredo Sauce is rich, creamy, and packed with garlic parmesan flavor! This Alfredo Sauce is easy to make and perfect with your favorite pasta!
Alfredo sauce is one of my favorite things to have with a big bowl of pasta! It’s a very rich and indulgent treat for dinner. I also love that it only takes about 5-10 minutes to whip up a batch! This recipe will yield about two cups of sauce total. It can easily be doubled if you are feeding a crowd or want extra for later. The bottled Alfredo just doesn’t compare to this delicious homemade version!
What is Alfredo Sauce?
Traditional Alfredo sauce is a simple white/cream sauce. It is made from butter, heavy cream, and parmesan cheese. While the original style is great, I simply like to add garlic, salt, pepper, and Italian seasoning to make Alfredo sauce taste even better!
How to Make Alfredo Sauce:
- The first step to making Alfredo sauce is to warm your butter and cream in a large saucepan over low heat. You will let it simmer (but not boil) for about 2 minutes.
- Next, you will whisk in your garlic and seasonings. Whisking constantly for about one minute just to let the garlic cook.
- Lastly, you will add your parmesan cheese and stir just until the cheese has melted and your sauce is smooth.
Note that it is best to use freshly grated parmesan cheese right off of the block so that your sauce isn’t grainy. I do not recommend using the “shaker” style container grated cheese for this recipe.
The Parmesan will thicken this sauce up. If it isn’t quite thick enough, allow the sauce to stand for 2-3 minutes before serving.
If you love making your own pasta sauce at home, be sure to try out my Easy Homemade Pesto as well!
Enjoy!
~Nichole
Best Homemade Alfredo Sauce is rich, creamy, and packed with garlic parmesan flavor! This Alfredo Sauce is easy to make and perfect with your favorite pasta!
- 1/2 Cup Butter
- 1 1/2 Cups Heavy Whipping Cream
- 2 Teaspoons Garlic Minced
- 1/2 Teaspoon Italian Seasoning
- 1/2 Teaspoon Salt
- 1/4 Teaspoon Pepper
- 2 Cups Freshly Grated Parmesan Cheese
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Add the butter and cream to a large skillet.
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Simmer over low heat for 2 minutes.
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Whisk in the garlic, Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper for one minute.
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Whisk in the parmesan cheese until melted.
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Serve immediately.
I love a good alfredo sauce and this is by far the best!
My kids literally go CRAZY for alfredo!!!
My kids literally go crazy for alfredo sauce!!
Homemade sauces are always so much better than store bought! So flavorful!
I love alfredo sauce so much!
I love alfredo. I cannot wait to try this!
All that glorious butter, cream and cheese, this is the sauce of the gods!
Love how easy this is and that it comes out so creamy.
This does look like the best! I have to make it this week!
OMG! This is fabulous
The best Ever!!!
Thanks, Michelle! 🙂
So simple. So delicious.
I cannot wait to try this tonight!
Me and my husband had the sauce last night for dinner and it was awesome homemade sauces that I’ve made I got thumbs up from my whole family that night made me feel good thank you
This is such a great Alfredo sauce! I added green peas and I cut up a ham steak and mixed it together before serving. I think it was a great combination.
Great sauce with lots of flavor. I would leave out the salt as the butter and parm have enough salt content.
Awesome Alfredo recipe! Yes, by far the best!!! I like how fresh grated parmesan cheese is in this recipe and NOT the sprinkle kind you would use on spahgetti. I also added shrimp scampi from Sams club in mine and it was amazing! Better than the restaurant. Im always skeptical of trying new recipes because I have tried so many and they weren’t that great BUT, I’m glad I tried this because it’s perfect
I just recently became allergic to milk. Do you think replacing the milk products with a non dairy alternative would be good?
Yes! I’ve tried this using non-dairy Smart Balance butter, non-dairy milk (I used unsweetened almond milk), Violife parmesan cheese (dairy-free block), and a scoop of Tofutti non-dairy cream cheese for added creaminess and thickness. Very delicious.
Wow!! This is “by far!” The absolute best Alfredo sauce my family has ever had! Thank you!
Sooo good
Used 1 cup cheddar in a double recipe, also used 1 T of rosted garlic, Italian spice rosted tomato oil with the butter. Added a handful of bacon at the end and OMG THIS WAS AMAZING! I even got my partner to eat spaghetti squash with this sauce on top!
Awesome Alfredo sauce the best yet I ever tasted and I get control the sodium just love it.
I literally made this on a 30 min lunch break and it came out fabulous. My family has been making alfredo sauce from scratch for over a year now and we appreciate quick and easy recipes. Thank you so much!
Love that you could get it done over your lunch break. Quick and easy is my favorite too! 🙂
This recipe is absolutely delicious! I will never try another. 😘
Well, thank you so much! 🙂
I Made this recipe and it was a great success . I am wondering if you could freeze it.
Hi! Glad you liked it! You could try freezing it if you’d like. But, I have to say I’ve never had great luck freezing cream-based sauces like this, the texture just isn’t the same after.
how many servings is this recipe for?