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.
Really really good! So worth it to use freshly grated cheese!
About how much did it make?
Restaurant quality recipe
I made this for my family and they flipped over nothing but praise they loved it thanks nicole
Delicious! I was nervous when I tasted the sauce by itself because it was incredibly salty (probably from the Parmesan) but it was perfect on the pasta. And we used shaved Parmesan instead of grated; it takes constant stirring until it melts but it was worth it. Definitely a hit! Thanks!
I use unsalted butter so it doesn’t end up too salty. You can always add but not take out. ?
Wow, this is seriously delicious! My new favorite Alfredo recipe and so easy to prepare. Thank you, thank you.
I changed this recipe a bit. Left out the Italian seasoning and used a combination of Romano, Asiago and parmesan. I also added a bit of shallot and lots of garlic. Delicious!
Delicious! My new go to. Added some chicken meatballs and wallaa!!!
Just made this for the first time and it’s a huge hit! I love how simple it is. No cooking of flour, etc. I didn’t have quite enough parmesan on hand…I was just a little short by maybe 1/4 c…but it was still delicious. Never buying Alfredo in the bottle again! (It always tastes terrible anyway.)
This recipe really is the best. Makes all the website popups worth it
Excellent recipe. Easy and delicious