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.
Just ran across this recipe and all I have is 4lbs of the shaker type (kraft) from Sam’s Club. If I use 2 cups of this type, am I going to ruin my meal?
Hi, I haven’t tried making this with the shaker style parmesan. I can say that freshly shredded is best, so my best advice is to wait until you have that on hand for best results 🙂
My 12 yo made this sauce while I made the chicken to go with it. It is super easy and restaurant quality! She’s a foodie and said she loves the combination of spices.
Wonderful flavor and very easy to make! Made 1/4 recipe to top chicken and broccoli for a rich keto supper #Amazing!!
Why would you ever buy the store brand. This is so easy to make and it’s amazing. Thanks for the recipe
This recipe was fantastic. Not only easy but so yummy. I am going to try your Instant Pot Pulled Pork recipe today and the M&M cookie recipe next weekend.
The IP pulled pork is heavenly!
Love it. Restaurant quality. My favorite to go dish. Quick andeasy. I added chicken to it.
Hello Nicole;
I want to take a moment to thank you for the Alfredo recipe you posted I am inspiring foodie and I only started recently because my son has became a certified executive chef and on Sunday is family day considering I’ve been cooking for a couple decades for the family just on Sundays mostly steak pasta hamburgers and I have mastered Smoking on my new pellet grill but I know there are five master sauces & If this isn’t one of them I’m going to make it so again thank you for your time best of luck and Pinterest sincerely
Love this recipe. We love it with chicken to make a chicken alfredo. Its also great to toss in chicken wings! Thanks for the recipe.
Great recipe I’ll be using this tonight to really spice things up in the kitchen. (The wife says my cooking life has gotten a little stale lol)
Delicious, the whole family loved it. I have made it twice now. So easy and quick!
The bitterness could be coming from the garlic, if it is old, or perhaps burned a little in the pan.
I have been making this recipe semi-regularly for a while. I get a hint of bitterness as an aftertaste at times. Anybody have any suggestions? Making it again tomorrow.
I love this recipe. I do, however, switch the parmesan cheese for a 3 or 4 cheese blend (fresh from the deli section).
Possibly the garlic … Do you ever cook the garlic first? Like to sweat it? Or could it possibly be old? Otherwise I’m not sure what would make it bitter.
My husband loved it! I did too cause it was so easy to make and it’s one I can remember by heart!
Thank you
Just randomly looked for an Alfredo sauce recipe and this one popped up! Tried it tonight and made garlic shrimp and noodles and the husband and kids all loved it!! Definitely keeping this recipe for future use! Thank you for sharing!