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 made this recipe and replaced half the butter with bacon grease and OMG it was incredible. Had it with grilled chicken and broccoli and topped with bacon bits. Not at all healthy but a must have on a cheat day
Learned my lesson not to cut corners. I used 4C grated parmesan as it does not contain cellulose or any other filler. It was late and I was tired and grating 2 cups of parm is very time consuming, but I will do it next time. Texture was slightly granular. However, the flavor was great and perfect to pour over a pile of grilled chicken chunks, broccoli, and mushrooms. (keto, ya know!)
I added cbicken and steamed.broccoli florets to this dish and it was amazing. I also substituted the heavy cream with half & half and it was superb! Better than store bought and even some restaurants. So easy to make. SAUCE is done in 10 minutes.
All the recipes I have tried on this website has been awesome! Thanks for sharing your delicious recipes.
This recipe was so quick and easy! I didn’t have minced garlic so I omitted the salt and replaced that with garlic salt. Served it over penne pasta, chicken & bacon. Tasted delightful. Will not be purchasing store bought anymore. Thank you for sharing this awesome recipe.
Really great recipe tonight’s dinner with penne noodles shrimp and mixed peppers
The best Alfredo sauce I have made! Crowd pleaser!!
It is perfect! Make sure you shred your own Parmesan. We had it with bow tie noodles and my husband kept saying “wow” and “oh my goodness” didn’t change anything but added fresh parsley at the end.
Easy and delicious. I will never get the jarred again.
I showed my grandaughter how to make this recipe. It was so simple and easy. We added Mushrooms and used Pappardelle pasta. it was so delicious and creamy coated the pasta just right. She will never use bottle sauce again.
I showed my Granddaughter how simple and easy this was to make, we added Mushrooms and use Pappardelle pasta, it was sooo delicious.
She will never buy bottled or canned Alfredo sauce again.