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.
Soooo rich! Truly an indulgent treat. It may cost more than a jarred sauce, but once you try it, you will never go back. Toss in some garlic pan fried shrimp and you have a 15 to 20 dollar restaurant quality meal for about 1/4 the price.
Wow! This is the best recipe! I am glad that I had the ingredients and didn’t have to go to the store. So easy and so delicious.
Freaking delicious!
Delicious! Best Alfredo sauce ever. It’s so good it’s hard to stop eating.
Can this be made a few hours ahead and reheated? I know that sometimes creams and cheeses will separate.
It will separate when you put it in the fridge and reheat. I’ve done this!
This recipe is fast, easy, and delicious! My son keeps having me make it 🙂
I almost bought canned Alfredo. Typed in Alfredo sauce at the store, this recipe popped up, I looked at the ingredients and I had all except the whipping cream, grabbed a carton and made it the sauce at home. My husband, son and dad ate it all up. My husband said he would have paid for that! Haha!
Such wow! me and my girlfriend were reeeeeally hungry, and this totally hit the spot! super duper yummy and scruptious!
So simple and delicious!
I want to try this sauce. Looks great! How many servings for these measurements?
Used this recipe with some fresh wild caught gulf shrimp over homemade fettuccine Friday after Thanksgiving. Incredible! Added only a bit of chile powder to make it more “Texas”.:)