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.
Wow!! SO GOOD!! Simple ingredients but the flavor is amazing!! My 14 yr old son helped me and he said it’s the best Alfredo sauce he’s ever had!!❤️ We used 5oz of Stella shredded Parmesan and then grated the remaining 8oz of Cello Parmesan cheese. Super cheesy, super flavorful and delicious!! Thank you so much for sharing this recipe!!!!
Wonderful!
Great and way better than jar stuff.Can confirm, works grate (pun intended) with store bought shredded parm in case (like me) you dont have a block of parm hanging around to fresh grate.
Great recipe! It turned out great
Very good. Not too garlicky and super cheesy
. I served this sauce on rotini and added extra cheese on top 😉
I’ve made this couple times, it’s easy it’s delicious, a staple in our home 🙂
Definitely make it to serve immediately, I tried to make it preemptively before my partner began our pasta and shrimp and it started to separate. Absolutely on me for not reading the whole instructions before making! It was still delicious honestly!
Delicious!! My Italian mother in law taught me to make Alfredo sauce a long time ago, but I couldn’t find the recipe so went online to find a recipe with the same ingredients she used and found your recipe. Thank you!! ❤️ I followed your recipe and added fresh basil, sliced mushrooms, and an extra dash of garlic, and it was just like my mother in law had made it, so delicious!! I’m printing and saving your recipe, this filled my kitchen with the aroma of Italy and treasured, happy family memories. 💕🙏🏻
I made your Alfredo sauce and it was the easiest and best.
I used parm Reggie and some reg parm.
Melted great.
I added fresh ground nutmeg also.
Thanks!
My family loooooves this dinner. BONUS, it’s super easy to make!!!