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.
When you make this, do you use salted or unsalted butter?
I made this tonite it was very good this recipe is a keeper Thanks for sharing !
This was amazing!
The alfredo sauce has a nice flavor but it turned out very thick. It was kind of pasty. The only thing I changed was swapping heavy cream for light. I am going to try this recipe again but this time add some pasta water to thin the sauce.
All I have to say is YUMMY!
Such an easy and delicious recipe. The only thing I did differently was added some fresh ground Nutmeg. This will definitely be my to go Alfredo recipe from now on
THE BEST alfredo sauce, don't look anywhere else!
Hi I would love to try this but can I use regular table cream if I don't have whipping cream
Hi! I actually had to google about table cream because I had never heard of it before! From what I can see, it's just not a commonly used item in the US. Anyway, it does look like it has slightly less fat than whipping cream, but still enough fat that it should be interchangeable. So, it should work fine 🙂
Wow! So simple and absolutely delicious
Love love love this recipe! It is my go-to recipe & I don’t use the canned stuff anymore. Is it possible to freeze it for future meals??
I make a similar recipe and am trying this recipe tonight. I freeze mine each time I make it. I’ll also freeze single serving sizes so I can make a quick lunch.
I made this today and didn't have the correct cheese. I used cheddar and it's just as good as any that I've eaten.
Will this keep in a crockpot, on warm, once made?
This was amazing!! My family loved it
Very good Nice and creamy.
My go to alfredo sauce that I will prepare just as easy as making a sandwich. So so good. Thank you!
I am not one to leave reviews but this was AH-mazing!!! Thank you so much! I love Alfredo but never found any in a jar that I liked. My family loved it and thought it was as good or even better than a restaurant! I didn’t make any changes to the recipe…perfect as is!