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:
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! If you love cooking from scratch, make some of this Homemade Pasta to go along with your sauce!
What is Alfredo Sauce?
Traditional Alfredo 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 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
Ingredients
- ½ Cup Butter
- 1 ½ Cups Heavy Whipping Cream
- 2 Teaspoons Garlic Minced
- ½ Teaspoon Italian Seasoning
- ½ Teaspoon Salt
- ¼ Teaspoon Pepper
- 2 Cups Freshly Grated Parmesan Cheese
Instructions
- Add the butter and cream to a large skillet.
- Simmer over low heat for 2 minutes.
- Whisk in the garlic, Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper for one minute.
- Whisk in the parmesan cheese until melted.
- Serve immediately.
So good!!! We've never liked the store-bought Alfredo Sauce and finally attempted a homemade recipe. Glad to have found this one!
Wow! I was worried how it would turn out. It took awhile for the Parmesan to melt and I did add a teensy bit of flour to thicken the sauce. It was restaurant quality. I will never by a jar of Alfredo again. Only wish I had found this recipe earlier, it was huge success with the entire family 🙂
Excellent
So simple -the best!!
Excellent! I didn't have enough heavy cream, so I used 2% milk and 1tbsp of corn starch and improvised adding Balderson cheese. So delicious!!! Thanks for the recipe!
I used the kraft grated parmesan but only used 1 cup instead of two and it was perfect. I had made the chicken prior to the sauce so when I took the chicken out I made the sauce in the same pan and it was delicious. When the kids like it I know that it's a good recipe .
It was a bit too salty for my taste and I think it’s because I used a pre grated cheese from the store! I was able to fix it with water and heavy cream.
Simple to make and delicious!
This is very good!! I didn’t have heavy cream so I used evaporated milk and a little more butter. Used to make chicken tetrazzini.
I did not realize how easy this is .
Perfect yummy
What can I use instead of cream?
Milk and cornstarch
Worked great, the family loved it and is much better than storebought. I am glad it was so easy, this will be my go to.
I’ve made this at least 2 times now
The only thing I added differently is some Slap Ya Mama seasoning and it’s so good
This was awesome.. I'm not good at seasoning so I used a pack Knorr Alfredo seasoning, shrimp and broccoli. Everyone thought it was from a restaurant.