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 15 yo son said, “Oh my God! How did you do this? You could be a 5-star chef!” I didn’t tell him how easy it was. 🙂
This was THE BEST Alfredo sauce I’ve ever had. So easy and delicious. I’ll never buy jar sauce again!
I’ll never buy jar sauce again either, this was like sauce from a restaurant! Delicious!!
This was my very first time making Alfredo Sauce. Omg, it was wonderful. I will never have to pay to get Chicken Alfredo again. Thank you so much.
I love how quick and easy this was! And delicious,too! Going to demonstrate to my husband how fast he/we can throw this together so he quits buying jarred sauce at the supermarket! I did a side-by-side taste test with your recipe and his name-brand highly-processed sauce, and he liked it just fine. I love, love, love it. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent!
I usually don’t comment on a lot of things, but after trying this I had to. This is the best Alfredo sauce I’ve ever had in my life! I will never buy sauce again…this is such an easy recipe. Thank you so much! I hope you have other recipes because I will be trying them next.
Awesome and simple. I wish I didn’t add the salt because my parmesan is already salty, plus, I was putting it over italian sausage ravioli which is also salty, oops!
This is friggin good!!! I’m an Alfredo snob and this is amazing!
Could I substitute grated Parmesan for mozzarella cheese
No, unfortunately it won’t turn out the same.
Just wow!
This sauce taste better than any restaurant I’ve been to, thanks for sharing ?