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.
Came out perfect.. 8 year loved it so it must be good! Thank u for the recipe. Definitely will be making this again.
How long does this keep in the fridge?
Best Alfredo recipe!
Excellent and easy. I have used it several times.
Made it 3 times, easy and restaurant quality. Great recipe!
Absolutely delicious. Easy to make. Foil proof recipe.
If I want to make this ahead of time for a large gathering, what can I do to make it keep its creaminess and not separate? Do I need to add a flour to the melted butter?
I have used this recipe for a few years and my family loves it!
I actually do this and been doing this for years. I make it ahead of time and put it into a container and leave it in fridge.and then when it comes time I just grab a tbs and add it to my pasta. It keeps for like 3 days in fridge. I also lay it in ziplock bags in freezer so I can have a thin sheet to just lay across the pan and melt with the hot pasta. Never had it separate.
Best alfedo sauce I’ve ever made from scratch. Printing this recipe for my favorite recipe book.
Amazing
Well of course it’s the best no other is better and I have tried many.. this one is so creamy, perfect fluidity, the parm cheese melts well into the the heavy cream and butter, and the spices is a perfect balance, not one spice outshine the other and can’t wait to make this for my kid when she gets back from college.. thank you much and I did add sautéed baby Bella’s to the end .. GREAT