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!
What is Alfredo Sauce?
Traditional Alfredo sauce 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 sauce 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
I make this all the time for my family. We like to add lemon pepper top it. It brings it over the top delicious.
How long will this keep in this refrigerator?
i loved it!! one note: if you like onions, adding diced onions in with the garlic adds a whole new flavor and i really like it! great recipe 🙂
My husband love this and told me I now have to make this weekly! I did leave out the Italian seasoning as I want more of an authentic flavor. I did change up the cheese adding a Parmesan and Fontina mix and more garlic! (we love garlic). Used half and half as I read others did and added blackened chicken. This sauce is so easy and delicious. Thanks for sharing this great recipe.
After tasting jar alfredo, I decided to look up a recipe and I must say….AWESOME SAUCE. I will continue to walk pass the jars of alfredo on the shelf and buy the ingredients to make this sauce.
OMG Delish!!
This was absolutely delicious! My step daughter asked for chicken Alfredo for her birthday dinner and decided on this recipe. I could have licked my plate clean. Definite thumbs up from this family!!
I made this tonight and everybody loved it!! I will never buy jarred Alfredo Sauce again! Thank so much for this delicious recipe.
This was really great and I shared the recipe with my friend and her family loved it as well. I will not buy another jar of Alfredo sauce
Looked up this recipe on google and saw the rating. I decided to give it a go. My wife and I were gardening all day and when I broke to make dinner I was too tired to grind the parmesan block we had. I cheated and went against the recommendations on using the shaker style cheese (in my case, Kraft parmesan). I made sure I broke down the few lumps I had as I incorporated the cheese into the recipe. Also, I only had half & half and not heavy cream but I went ahead anyway as lots of times I substitute the half & half when I don’t have the heavy cream (35%). It worked fine. I had no problem with lumpiness with either the cheese or the bottled minced garlic I used ….I know, another cheat. Anyway, this recipe was terrific! I will make it again. Thank you salty marshmallow for this.
DELICIOUS Can you freeze this recipe please
I have before, it kept well for me.
Made this last night for my family of 5 and everyone loved it! My husband enjoyed this after a long and hot day of work (108 here in phx) it’s creamy and delicious! Thank you!
your alfredo sauce recipe is very delicious!
thank you for sharing.
made this for this first time and was a big hit. I will cut back on garlic for the next time, but was so good
This was absolutely delicious! I made a quick dinner cutting up a ready to eat roasted chicken, a bag of mixed vegetables and two 9 oz packages of fresh prosciutto and cheese tortellini. The tortellini cooked in 2 minutes so this meal was ready in no time. Poured the sauce over it, gave it a toss and the family LOVED it. One suggestion, I’d say parmesan is a salty cheese, so I didn’t add any salt. I also found half a teaspoon of garlic powder was enough..so add a little at a time..you can always add more, but can’t take it back! Thanks for sharing this recipe! A definite keeper!
“I also found half a teaspoon of garlic powder was enough” recipe called for minced garlic, so cutting back on powdered garlic would make sense
I tried this recipe and it is the best!!!
I had a favorite Alfredo recipe that I’ve been making for 15 years, which my family all loved. Decided to try this recipe to change it up a bit. DELICIOUS!! Our new family favorite Alfredo recipe. Tastes so much like authentic restaurant sauce. Added French bread and olive oil with pesto dip to complete the meal. ❤️