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.
Absolutely delicious! My husband doesn’t care for alfredo sauce but he loved this recipe and has requested it multiple times.
Really delicious but DON’T ADD THE SALT!! the Parmesan and butter have plenty. I added the salt and now I know for next time to wait and add it only if needed at the end. Too salty to really enjoy after the first few bites. But other wise tasty. I added fresh parsley as a garnish and that was a nice touch.
You wouldn’t add the salt if your butter has plenty. Unless a recipe says to use salted butter, it calls for unsalted. If you’re using salted, you should automatically deduct the salt from the recipe.
This is absolutely the best and my family loved it!
Hi there! Do you have tips for reheating this sauce? I plan to make it to give to my sister while she is recovering from surgery and I wonder if it will reheat well. Thank you!
I would just heat regular milk, about 1/2 a cup, then pour in sauce and mix and simmer without let it boil, taste for salt.
Low and slow on the stove with LOTS of stirring or whisking. If necessary add a small bit of cream.
Hi Nichole, I used this recipe last night and it came out great but I broke it toward the end. I tried to bring it back to life and added water instead if milk so…it didn’t come out creamy but really thick. So, next time I’ll let it slowly cook and add milk if it’s too thick. Yet, my guest still enjoyed it very much! Thanks!
I’m going to try this today because the alfredo sauces in stores are becoming scarce to none and I’m not sure what’s going on. I’m excited to try this and will follow up with the results. Thanks for sharing this!
This homemade alfredo sauce is wonderful. And never have found a decent store bought one to date.
Absolutely delicious. Will never buy jar sauce again. Used 2%milk and added a bit more garlic and cream cheese. Amazing…
Did you use the same measurement of milk? Compared to heavy cream?
Awesome recipe! Making alfredo always intimidated me, but this sauce made it so easy and tasted wonderful. It was a hit with the whole family, who were left asking for more!!!
I love this recipe! I decided to try it because it’s more like the way I usually make my Alfredo sauce (with garlic and herbs, not “traditional” Alfredo ). When I realized I did not have fresh Parmesan I substituted Gruyere, freshly grated. Oh, my! It was even more delicious than expected, perhaps the best I’ve ever originated in my kitchen.
Thanks for sharing your recipe, Nichole!
Delish and fast n easy… I will leave out the salt next time, doesn’t need It with all the cheese. I didn’t realize how much the recipe would make… just 2 of us, and my husband likes just a little bit of sauce. Best way to store and reheat? Thank you!
Very good and easy to make?