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 absolutely love your Alfredo sauce recipe!! I made it for my family of 12. It was a hit!! Can I make it ahead and freeze it?
THE BEST HOMEMADE SAUCE EVER! Wow, truly impressed by the flavorful taste & it was so simple! Family loved it, will save for the future! Thank you so much for sharing your secret!
Absolutely delicious. This is one of the easiest recipes I’ve ever made. Thanks!
That was delicious!
I added 5 chees tortellini and then topped it off with some spicy panko, then broiled til golden.
We don’t have any leftovers!!
Thank you
I have made this a bunch of times now thank you for posting a good recipe. I worked at Olive garden and this is very similar but no shallots. It is better without! I just add a tiny bit extra Parmesan on top and it’s perfect.
Absolutely fabulous!
Great recipe. Easy and delicious!!!!!
Easy to follow. Meal came out great 👍
Delicious! I only needed to add some of the pasta water to it to thin it out a bit otherwise the recipe was exactly made as noted and it was fantastic!
So good!! I put in on homemade fettuccine and cooked up some chicken with the garlic, Italian seasoning and some salt and pepper. My husband said it was his favorite part of the day. ☺️
This recipe was perfect! I’ve been failing at my Alfredo attempts for years. It’s a lot of butter so I won’t be making it often but it was fantastic! Thank you!
It works without the butter, because the heavy cream is the pre-butter already there, try it!