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.
I use this recipe all the time! I get so many compliments and even the pickiest of eaters love it!
This recipe was simple and delicious. I’m not a fan of Alfredo but I loved it and so did my family. It’s definitely a must try.
We bought too much cream and had leftover chicken breast from earlier in the week. The rest of the ingredients are staples in our house. I threw this together and added the cut up breast and some broccoli. Poured it over rotini noodles and everyone loved it! Shopping the pantry for the win!
Can this be made a few days prior to serving and kept in the refrigerator?
It's best fresh!
Yes!
This is hands-down the best recipe! Full of rich flavor. My family absolutely loved it! We ate most deliciously! 🙂
Can this be canned?
No, it is best fresh 🙂
Made this tonight everyone loved it, it was my 1st time making homemade Alfredo, recipe was easy that my 5 year old helped me make it. Will definitely be on our supper list from now on. thanks
It was sooooo delicious! I added pasta, chicken & spinach 🥰 Thank you for the recipe, first time I’ve ever made Alfredo sauce and I’m glad I picked yours! The Italian seasoning & garlic I’m a huge fan of! Will definitely share with family & friends.
Perfect Alfredo! Served over farfalle and my family loved it.
Best sauce we have ever had. Works perfect for 1 lb of your favorite pasta!!
Great recipe as is. We use Satori Parmesan cheese, so if you are using a good cheese, the recipe will come out delicious.
Can this be frozen?
My family "LOVED" this sauce, even though we missed an ingredient! My son was helping me in the kitchen and thought I had already added the butter. I thought he had added it, so the sauce was made sans butter. Everyone raved over supper about how this recipe was a keeper. During kitchen clean-up I found the butter and we realized our mistake! Next time we'll try it with the butter. ;0)
OMG! Awesome recipe! My first time making alfredo- so easy. Cubed and fried boneless chicken, fresh shrooms and some broccoli and cauliflower, set that aside and made the sauce in the same pan. Just a few minutes before it was finished I mixed everything in the sauce as well as some bite size shrimp! Fabulous and so fast and easy, Thank you for sharing this recipe!
So good & very easy to make! I mixed sauce with pasta & added cooked mushrooms, chicken & shrimp. Yum!
This was the bomb. I made this vegan and subbed unsweetened plain almond milk for heavy cream, used a little corn starch and left out the butter. Added some nutritional yeast instead of parmesan.
This was absolutely delicious and so easy to make quickly!! I added sautéed onions, yellow peppers and shitake mushrooms at the end to the mix. My family stuffed themselves!!