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.
Awesome recipe.
Excellent recipe
Super delicious! Easy to make. Quick! Perfect to pour into 1 box/16oz of pasta. We make air fried shrimp to go with it! Thanks for this delicious sauce recipe!
I usually never comment on recipes but I made this for the first time tonight. Quick, easy and delicious. Usually I have to tweak the seasoning but this was spot on.
Hi which Italian seasoning did you use?
If you can find Alpine touch their Garlic and herb Italian seasoning is amazing with this recipe especially if you make chicken or shrimp
Complimented by many people for this recipe! Hands down best alfredo pasta i have tried. Thank you for a classic!
Wonderful sauce.Easy and delicious! Have you tried reheating the sauce
Everything about this recipe was awesome. Kids loved it and I feel like i have fussy eaters! Super easy to make.
You can reheat it! I also doubled the recipe and froze half! Pulled it out of the freezer a month later and still fresh and delicious!
I added this to your garlic mushroom pasta and WOW!
That sounds AMAZING! Great idea 🙂
I have tried so many recipes for alfredo and have never been happy…This is so easy and delicious.Thank you so much…
Easy, quick and tasty!
This was the easiest and best Alfredo sauce I’ve ever had, thank you so much for sharing with everyone! It is going to be made regularly for my family and I 🙂