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 sauce blew my whole family out of the water. It was absolutely amazing. Best Alfredo sauce ever! 🤤
Made a double portion and it tastes great. Consistency is looser than what you find in a jar, but still satisfying and sticks to the noodles.
I double the recipes and made two separate batches of shrimp Alfredo with it, one for me and the kids with regular thin spaghetti and the other one with chickpea spaghetti for my wife, the sauce came out amazing, I will never use any other recipe ever again this will be my go too for sure
I love this recipe! It turned out perfectly. I doubled it and it made four cups of sauce, which was plenty for 10 people. Easy to make and full of flavor.
Made this tonight and everyone loved it! Best we have ever tasted!! Insanely delicious!!
Delicious! I put the garlic in with the butter to sauté it a bit before I added the cream. Next time I will probably eliminate or reduce the extra salt since the butter and cheese were plenty salty. I recommend tasting before adding the additional salt. I also let it simmer for about 15 minutes stirring constantly while the pasta cooked (it did not split!) I’m from New Mexico so of course I added green chile. This is one of the best dishes I’ve ever prepared, thank you so much!
Love this recipe… has anyone had successfully canning, freezing or preserving it? I want to have this on hand.
Dairy items usually do not freeze well.
Perfect sauce! Thank you for this recipe it’s our go to! Thin sauce with perfect flavor. Authentic quality without fillers
Cooked it tonight. I added some rotisserie chicken to it. It was fabulous. Thanks for sharing.
Skipped the added salt. Still delicious!
I also added chicken and fresh asparagus.
Happy tummy!