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!
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
Ingredients
- 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
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.
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By far one of the easiest and best Alfredo sauces. A definite keeper!!
This is a tasty sauce, will be making it again. It’s super easy also. I added some parsley, a can of cream of mushroom soup and a little more whipping cream. It was a big hit iwitb my crew!
I googled “quick alfredo sauce” and this was the first listing… it is tasty, easy, and fast. I used it for crab and lobster ravioli and the flavor balance was perfect.
This is the best Alfredo Sauce! This will be made over and over in my home. I made a couple of changes. I added 2 Tablespoons of parsley, and 3 basil leaves chopped. I only had 5 ounces of shredded Parmesan cheese, and it was enough. I didn’t have any whipping cream, and used mike instead, which was just fine. I’m going to make it with 1/2 and 1/2 next time. I chopped and fried 3 pieces of maple bacon, steamed some broccoli, fried some sliced Crimini mushrooms in the bacon grease, and tossed in some cooked peeled jumbo shrimp, and served it all over linguini noodles. What an awesome dish!