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:

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

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.

homemade alfredo sauce recipe

If you love making your own pasta sauce at home, be sure to try out my Easy Homemade Pesto as well!

Enjoy!

~Nichole

4.99 from 3757 votes

Best Homemade Alfredo Sauce

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!
Prep 5 minutes
Cook 5 minutes
Total 10 minutes
Servings 2 Cups

Ingredients 

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

Calories: 535kcal, Carbohydrates: 10g

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

Additional Info

Course: Main Course
Cuisine: American
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1,895 Comments

  1. 5 stars
    Wow!!! BEST Alfredo ever. SO flavorful and creamy. My husband said he’s never store buying Alfredo sauce again. And my extremely picky two yr old demolished it- he usually never eats pasta. I’m so happy thank you.

  2. Loved this recipe but I think I made a mistake by adding 1 tsp of cream cheese to my sauce! Oops! Just made it tangier but still delicious! I sauteed chicken, fresh mushrooms to add! Yummy! Made garlic cheesy bread toasted on the side!

  3. 5 stars
    this was delicious! I have to make enough for 30 people and tried it on my family first. how do I adjust the recipe for 30 people?

    1. I would take how many it feed with your family and Dover that by 30 and that’s how many you would times each ingredient

  4. 5 stars
    I just made a double batch of this sauce. Absolutely awesome! Fantastic flavor. My son who is an alfredo critic said the only thing it needed was to be a bit thicker. I would imagine that additional cheese would fix that. This wS my first time making alfredo sauce from scratch and it was really easy. Thank you for this recipe.

    1. Add a tiny bit of flour and it will thicken it. I ran out of whipping cream so I used about half cup of milk and was afraid it would water it down so I added a quarter cup flour and it came out super thick.

  5. 5 stars
    Best I’ve ever made, or had and I love to cook and try new recipes. Beats even what I’ve had in the best restaurants.
    Thank you,
    David

  6. 5 stars
    EASY..and received an “DELICIOUS!!” from the eater. Uhm, Thanks for the easy praise. Keep these coming! It’s CoVid and I need all the ease I can get. Stay Safe All