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.
I just added a little freshly grated (on a microplane) of nutmeg and a pad of butter, right at the end! The nutmeg is a great finishing touch to this recipe! Super delicious!!
So easy to make and has great flavor!! A hit with my family and so much better than store bought!!
Only had 1/3 cup of parm and it was still amazing! Added mushrooms and it was so, so good!!
Super easy and super delicious. Made this last night with penne pasta and smoked turkey sauce, my family 100% enjoyed it.
Thank you for the recipe, it is simple and very tasty. My grandson is a very happy camper when I make this sauce. We added spinach and chicken over noodles.
This recipe is gold. Substituted with coconut cream & it was so so good. Also adding 1/4 tsp – 1/2 tsp of nutmeg is amazing! We have this recipe at least every other week. If not more 🙂
Super easy and delicious I doubled the recipe, used non dairy whipping cream and added chicken and cheese tortellini…delicious!
It came out perfect! Love the pepper taste. Nice to be able to use Italian Seasoning as well, I simply don’t use it that much. Thank you for sharing.
Best alfredo sauce EVER!! I skimped on the butter—1/4 cup and it was still so so good.
Thank you!
Super easy! takes no more time really than to heat a jar with 10x better taste! I added powdered ranch dressing, peas, chicken with linguini noodles and finished off with some fresh squeezed lemon juice. Made in about 45 minutes total time with little multi tasking. Will certainly be using this recipe again! Simple recipe to easily add your preferences to make your own! Thanks for sharing!