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.
I personally would cut the salt to 1/4 teaspoon, other than that, absolutely delicious. Added cheese stuffed tortellini.
Delicious!! Will be making it again
Superb Alfredo sauce recipe! I wanted a last-minute idea for Valentine’s Day dinner and found this recipe. I had all of the ingredients already and making it was very easy. I added lobster meat at the end. The dish was delicious and special. A keeper!!!!!
OMG… THIS is my new Alfredo sauce…. Super simple and A B S O L U T E L Y delicious.
I put the remains sauce in the refrigerator for a couple of days. When I reheated it the butter and the cheese would not mix. Any suggestions?
Cream sauces have a tendency to break when you reheat them especially if you heat them quickly in the microwave. I like to heat mine in a saucepan, midheat, stirring, continually and adding a bit more cream to keep the sauce from breaking. Cream cheese or sour cream is great for this. Taste as you go adding a little bit more salt or cheese if the extra cream dilute the flavor. This works for previously frozen cream sauce too after a proper defrosting.
Warm it slowly over lower heat and stir constantly, and you should be able to re incorporate everything again., You might need to add a little more heavy cream and cheese.
Easy and delicious!
Easy and delicious
Will this freeze well if you make a big batch?
No it does not freeze well
I am making this tonight Valentines Day, for my hubby, the love of my life. I will be adding langostinos to his and grilled chicken for me. Very excited to try this! I will let you know.
Is this enough sauce for one pound of pasta?
Or how much pasta would you suggest?
And can this be made a day ahead and kept in the fridge. Would I reheat in the oven?
Thanks for you help!
Diane Pretak
It’s enough for one pound of pasta and it doesn’t reheat well.