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.
Approximately how many people would this feed? I’m cooking for a large group of around 50 and am wondering how many times I should double it? Thanks!
I think you should double it about 5x. I think 1 batch of this sauce will feed about 5 people.
Never use jar alfredo sauce anymore this the best grandson love make shrimp linguine
This is the best Alfredo sauce I’ve ever had. And I’ve eaten a lot of Alfredo sauce!
Very creamy and seasoned well.
This is so easy to make it was a winner
Quick, easy and delicious. Beats restaurant Alfredo any day. Thank you for sharing this recipe!
So easy to make and so delicious! I have picky eaters and it was a hit..
Absolutely amazing, my boyfriend loved it. I have never made it before and it was a last minute decision. Had to add a little extra heavy cream after the cheese cause it was very thick but after mixing that in it thinned out well. Added broccoli and fettuccini noodles to it.
Best Alfredo sauce I’ve ever made! Super easy and flavorful!
This was fabulous!! 😍. I couldn’t stop eating it…omg! So easy and SO DELICIOUS! My husband said this was better than ice cream (and he LOVES ice cream!).
Thanks for the great recipe!!