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.
By far the tastiest Alfredo sauce recipe out there! Would recommend simmering the cream and butter for a few minutes to heat through and after adding parmesan cheese, increase heat to med-low and allow it to thicken.
Easily the best alfredo recipe I have ever made/eaten. My kids and girlfriend request it regularly and guests have raved about it, too.
This is a fail safe and very tasty Alfredo!!
I mixed it up a little by putting yellow bell peppers and didn’t add any salt. The cheese I buy is very salty, so I opted out of adding.
I doubled the recipe and it fed 10 adults!!
Probably one of the best Alfredo sauce I’ve ever had. First time making it, and it was so easy.
I have good news, and bad news. The good news is _everyone_ loved it. Everyone, from the 8 year old picky eater to the 58 year old who “doesn’t like white sauce”. The bad news is that they all essentially told me absolutely no more frozen chicken alfredo. Also while this dish isn’t terribly expensive, I bought the fancy parmesan to make this and the difference between ye olde generic and this is…huge. I guess I splurge from now on because I would not ever have believed a few dollars could make such a difference until I tasted it.
That is the easiest and best tasting Alfredo sauce I’ve ever had. I will be making this from now on and no longer buying it.
This recipe is so easy and turns out perfectly every time!
Outstanding and easy to make.
Hands down, best I’ve ever had! My picky 10yr old asks for this every week.
This was a great recipe! I would definitely be placing this in my keepsake recipe book.
I just made it last night. It was amazing!