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.
So delicious and so easy!! Everyone who has had it loves it!! I love to make this with homemade garlic breadsticks and chicken seasoned with Italian seasoning, garlic salt, garlic powder and pepper! If anyone is reading this and thinking about trying this recipe, you need to make it ASAP!
Just made this tonight and it was perfect! I added cooked, diced chicken, steamed broccoli and put it over zucchini noodles. It was delicious. Thank you for such a simple but amazing recipe. Definitely a keeper
Excellent! Easy! Keeper!
Made this tonight! Took me all of five minutes to make. Family says it’s definitely restaurant quality, taste like East side Mario’s. Amazing ty!!!
By far the best alfredo sauce I have ever had. I added like 3 times the amount of fresh chopped garlic, but we love garlic. Family was highly impressed, said restaurant quality
Easy recipe. Made it and had it over portabella cheese ravioli and chicken spinach sausage medallions.
Very YUMMY.
So good!!! We’ve never liked the store-bought Alfredo Sauce and finally attempted a homemade recipe. Glad to have found this one!
Wow! I was worried how it would turn out. It took awhile for the Parmesan to melt and I did add a teensy bit of flour to thicken the sauce. It was restaurant quality. I will never by a jar of Alfredo again. Only wish I had found this recipe earlier, it was huge success with the entire family 🙂
Excellent
So simple -the best!!