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.
SUPER delicious and easy! One recommendation I would make is adding the garlic in win the butter, if you are using fresh cut garlic. This would allow the garlic to cook down a little more. Great recipe though
Our dinner was fantastic added a wild caught shrimp?.
I made this tonight for my boyfriends birthday dinner and it was incredible! Easy to make and so delicious. I added mushrooms and bacon and it went down so well. Thank you!!!
what cream?
Easy, simple, fanatic, and didn’t take long to make. Literally what else could you ask for
Super easy and delicious. Never buy alfredo in a bottle! We added hot pepper flakes because we like it that way!
Amazing and easy!!
I just made chicken Alfredo lasagna roll ups and I used this sauce. O M G fantastic! Thanks for sharing xo
You seriously have the best recipes. This Alfredo sauce has now become a staple in our house for pasta and our weekly homemade pizza. It tastes so much better than the jars in the grocery store.
I poured this sauce (cooked separately) over some chicken, bacon, potatoes and carrots in a dutch oven and it was the absolute best thing I think I’ve ever made in my entire life. My hubby loved it, said it was easily in “my top 3” and it’s hard to impress him, and my son gobbled it right up. Will definitely make this again.
Would love to have the recipe for that! Sounds yummy! We have a freezer full of chicken and we’re running out of ways to make it.
If I were to make this for me and another person, what would the measurements convert to?