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.
Taste great and easy to make 😍
My family loves when I make this. My oldest never cared for Alfredo before this! Now he gets excited for Alfredo night! It’s never any leftovers.
I made this today and hands down, it’s simply the best and easiest alfredo sauce ever. I made more than usual pasta and my family ate all, no leftovers. Yep, no more buying jarred alfredo from now on. Thank you
im a terrible cook (only 17 so i still have time to learn lol) and this was my 1st time making alfredo, and i dont usually like alfredo, but this was really good!
i didn’t have a block of parmesan to grate tho so i just used pre-grated parmesan and it came out great!
it was also super easy to make (even for someone who only knows how to make frozen meals..)
So easy and awesome! Swap the cheese and it changes the flavor!
So easy and so delicious! Will be using this one again. We put ours over chicken and I sautéed mushrooms. It was a hit!
Recipe was easy to follow and quickly had dinner ready to go for the family! Taste came out great as well! Will definitely keep this one to make again!
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!
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!