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.
My favorite Alfredo Sauce EVER!! Been using this recipe for 8 years now and my family loves it! I’ve used different recipes in the past and they just aren’t as good. Salty Marshmallow has the best banana bread recipe as well. Anytime I need a recipe Salty Marshmallow is my go to source I know it will be great based on all the ones I’ve used! Thankyou for providing such awesome recipes!
Amazing recipe and it’s definitely a family favorite 🤩
I have made this now at least 20 times and it is a hit every time!
This is the recipe that made me realize how easy it was to make homemade alfredo and I haven’t bought jarred sauce for about two years now.
Occasionally I sub half the parmesan for asiago but that’s all the modifications I have made.
Thank you!!!
Thank you! It is delicious!!
This came out so good. I cooked some rotini pasta and breaded chicken cutlets and used the sauce. My family smashed it, no leftovers. Easy, breezy, simple recipe.😊❤️❤️
Hear me out. This might be my new base for sausage gravy. Amazing over pasta so I’m already thinking of what else I could combine it with.
If I wanted to add.some lemon, at what stage should I do that, or should I just add zest? I don’t want it to separate. Thanks!
The Salty Mushroom makes the BEST FETTUCCINE ALFREDO SAUCE ever!
It’s easy and simple to make, especially if you prep ahead of time. I used unsalted butter, cut it into cubes and let it soften through the day. The butter mixed with the cream and grated cheese quickly. Instead of garlic, I used garlic powder and added tiny broccoli sprigs and cubed chicken. Guess we could call it FETTUCCINE CHICKEN ALFREDO PRIMAVERA…
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a winner and keeper!!!
How much pasta?
Easy to make and delicious on pasta!
Yummy! My favorite recipe