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.
This recipe is a keeper! Very easy to make and worked well with my Ham Alfredo. Delicious and I will be making this sauce going forward.
I’ve made this several times and love it!! I’ll never go back to store bought sauce!! 😍
This alfredo sauce is delicious! So easy & so flavorful! I added chicken & fettuccine which made a wonderful main dish!
Simple and flavorful.
Very tasty and quick to make!!!
This is my goto every single time. I add shrimp or chicken. Sometimes shredded carrots or broccoli. Sometimes bacon crumbles. But the base is this ALWAYS!
So easy and so yummy!
Wonderful recipe that was a huge hit with the Alfredo lovers in our house. My only tweak will be to add less salt to the recipe. We don’t cook with much salt, so the amount required hit us a little hard! Super easy, super quick. Thank you!
Always my go-to. My 13 year old even made it in cooking class for their school food truck project!
I usually sauté garlic and Italian seasoning in butter for couple of minutes prior to adding cream. The best Alfredo sauce ever!!!!
Wow, made this with ground sweet Italian sausage, over bow tie pasta. It was amazing, I added a 1/4 tsp of crushed red pepper.
Thank you for keeping it simple.
Delicious! I halved the recipe because it was just for 2, worked out great for me, I love that you kept it simple. I minced 1 clove of garlic, eyeballed the italian seasoning (s&p as well), and, only needed 2/3 cup parm adding slowly. I used Kraft pre-shredded bagged parm as there was not a single wedge of Parmasean in the store I could grate fresh. I say that in case you have the same misfortune 😉 Overall it came out rich creamy and wonderful. I used 2/3 cup of the bag parm, likely the anti-caking thickened the sauce. Thanks so much!
How can something so simple taste so delicious? This is a super easy recipe and even with heating and stirring it longer than the recipe states, it still only took 10 minutes from start to finish. The extra heating and stirring made for a thick, velvety Alfredo sauce. This will be the only Alfredo sauce I’ll use in the future. Thanks for the easy, excellent recipe.