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.
We love this recipe, I make it with TJ’S porcini truffle and mushroom ravioli, put about a dozen shrimp on top of it and have that with cheesy garlic bread, my little girl loves it and requests it weekly!! Truly Divine!
I could t believe how fast this sauce came together! It is so good!! I love garlic Alfredo so I did add an additional clove and loved the flavor. Next time I will start my fettuccini pasta before making the sauce! The pasta took longer than the sauce for a change.😁
Thank you for your recipe. My grandkids adore it and ask for it every time they visit!
this sauce is restaurant and company over worthy. It was better than anything i have purchased and love the fact that i know everything that has gone into it. I will definitely be making this again.
Soooo GOODDDD!!!!! AND EASY! Why anyone would buy Alfredo sauce in a jar is beyond me!
This is the best ever and so easy to make. A really good Parmesan is key. Thanks
Excellent! Halved & used 1T minced garlic from jar, FGP and less salt. Grated the parm reggiano with a microplane. Skipped the Italian seasoning only bc it didn’t go with our protein. Thank you!! Will only make from scratch in the future. 😋
I followed this recipie, and only made half a serving which was perfect for some chicken and tortellini Alfredo for two.
I used 1 cup of parmesan and it was a little too thick so I had to mix in more cream, but it turned out Delicious! Thank you for this recipie.
How many people does it feed?