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
- 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.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Does this make enough for a pound of pasta?
Yes
Absolutely delicious!
I sautéed onions in the butter with about 3Tbsp Chablis wine. Then quickly cooked shrimp in the same pan. Removed cooked shrimp, added garlic, cream, herbs and cheese. Simmered for a couple minutes then added shrimp back in the skillet to reheat. I will definitely make this again.
Made this when I didn’t have any of the canned sauce I normally use it was absolutely delicious I don’t see me buying any more jars of sauce
Just perfect!!!!!
So good i added some pepper flakes for a bit of a kick. Could this be made in a large batch and frozen for a later date.
7/11/25 Very good, fast and easy. Next time I will back on the salt, just a little. Served over fettuccine noodles and added crab meat to the sauce. A keeper!
Love this recipe never let’s me down simple, quick, pocket friendly, almost everything you use on a daily in your home delicious, kid friendly. Would recommend any day of the week.
This recipe was super and so delicious. I used it to make Stuffed Crust Spinach Pizza with Alfredo sauce and my family LOVED it!!! It was 100% better then any restaurant.