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.
My goodness, this sauce turned out so delicious. It tasted exactly like the Alfredo that’s served at Olive Garden 👌
Fantastic, quick and far superior to any pre-made sauce. A new recipe for my family, but a keeper for sure, not too rich, just perfect.
My daughter made this for my birthday, adding grilled chicken strips. Yummmm! Our family rated this better than Olive Gardens!
Can you make this sauce a day before
It’s best served right after it’s made and does not reheat well
Absolutely incredible sauce!
So quick and easy to make, and most importantly yummy! Even my very picky 1 year old who isn’t a big pasta eater cleared her plate and asked for more!
Incredible recipe, it is my secret weapon! I add chicken and spinach and it’s amazing every time. Thank you!
I’m sorry if this is obvious to everyone but me, but does 2 Cups grated cheese refer to scooping out two cups of grated cheese from all the cheese I grated or 2 cups as in 16 oz of cheese block that I then grate?
I went with 2 cups of grated, not 16oz, came out nicely. 16oz would be a crazy amount of cheese. 2 cups volumetric was about 6 ounces grated on the largest grated I have, it would also be a lot more cheese if you use the finer grates as it will compact more in the measuring cup.
2 cups of scoops of cheese. 16 oz refers to the weight not fluid ounces.
Wonderful recipe! I made a dairy free version of this by swapping out all of the dairy and using the pan that I browned my seasoned chicken in for more flavor. It turned out amazing and I’m so grateful to have this back in my life even though I cannot have dairy.
Made this today/evening. Added previous cooked frozen shrimp, put shrimp in butter/cream to warm took shrimp out put with noodles then added grated Parmesan whisked in added noodles and shrimp back to pan, stirred. Taste wonderful.