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.
very delicious
I love this recipe. It’s very simple, comes together beautifully and it’s delicious.
This recipe is awesome, I made a chicken Alfredo and the sauce was perfect for this. I used a 1/2 pound of linguine pasta as well for this recipe and didn’t change a thing, perfect for my partner and I with a little leftover. I didn’t measure my cheese but I just gradually added it in until my sauce was the consistency I liked:)
For me the Italian seasoning flavor was a little too dominant (more just a personal preference). Next time I think I will make it without it or only like 1/4 tsp. Maybe that flavor would have balanced out more with a protein like chicken added. Overall, great recipe and super easy! Thanks!!!!
Very quick & an amazing flavour!! This will be my Alfredo sauce moving forward.
Thankyou
So simple to make and wonderfully delicious! My entire family enjoyed it. I will be making this one again!
OMG delicious! I followed the recipe and thought the sauce was so thin. Well, I added the noodles and let it sit for 10 minutes. Dreamy, creamy, silky. Perfection!
OMG! The best. Very easy to make. I did add a couple of tablespoons of cream cheese and added leftover chicken. I will use this recipe again.
Hi,
I’ve made this recipe a few times. And twice now it’s separated on me? Do you have any advice for preventing this?
Make sure the cream is at room temperature when you blend it in. This will keep the cream from seperating. Good luck.
I make this recipe often and vary how I make it. I find less separation when filling the above comment, as well as adding in the parmesan slowly. Little bits til it’s mixed in before adding more. Takes a hair longer but results are worth it!
Simple and perfect.
OMG best!