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.
Omg , I’m never doing Jar Alfredo again! I wanted to try to make homemade Alfredo and came across this recipe. & I’m so happy I did , this was so much easier and flavorful then the jar. Thanks for this amazing recipe!
Best sauce.
I just added cream cheese and pecorino Romano cheese
Simple and so delicious. I used twice the garlic and half the butter, skipped adding salt (parmesan is salty), added a pinch of flour… cooked the chicken with mushrooms and half a walla walla sweet onion, and added a few handfuls of parsley just prior to serving. My son wants this ‘added to the rotation’ – thank you for posting this!
I loved this recipe and so did my family. I have a 20 month old toddler who never eats the same dinner as we do. This is a meal we ALL enjoyed! I added extra parm and loved the saltiness. It’s perfect and simply the best. I’m so happy I found your site.
I made it and it’s really tasty
Hi nicole. I want to make your Alfredo sauce but I need to make for 15 people?Can you help me with the measurements and amounts? I don’t want to mess it up bc making for Christmas dinner.
Thank you,
Stephanie
Hi! This recipe makes enough for one pound of pasta, which typically feeds 4-6 people. I’d say if you just triple the recipe you should have plenty! Hope that helps 🙂
Ty
How did it turn out?
Well,that was easy!
I made this recipe but substitute butter for promise margarine, milk with 1 tb spoon of flour for cream and vegan Parmesan cheese. Came excellent and everyone loved it.
Glad to see it turned out with the substitute for heavy cream! I was wanting to make but don’t have any one hand ?
We really enjoyed this recipe, and the biggest proof was that my children ate it without a word of complaint! Mild enough for them but flavorful enough for the adults. Will definitely make again!
Best Alfredo hands down! The Italian seasoning was a great touch. Thank you so much for sharing!
This sauce was delicious! I decided to add some cooked shrimp with peas and carrots to make it a meal over linguine.