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
- ½ Cup Butter
- 1 ½ Cups Heavy Whipping Cream
- 2 Teaspoons Garlic Minced
- ½ Teaspoon Italian Seasoning
- ½ Teaspoon Salt
- ¼ 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.
I am excited to try this but have a question, can this sauce be frozen? Either by itself or on leftover pasta? If it can, how long can it be frozen for? Thanks!!
No, this sauce does not freeze well.
This recipe was so easy to put together. I did add a cup and a half of rotisserie chicken but this is the best alfredo sauce I've ever made! Thank you for the recipe 🙂
Absolutely delicious!! This is the best Alfredo sauce I have taste so far. It’s so tasty and creamy. Everyone loved it!! Thank you so much for sharing this gem!! ❤️
I made this recipe for the first time and it worked out great. The only changes I made were adding some sautéed mushrooms and a short shake of some red pepper flakes. I served it with three cheese tortellini and fresh Italian parsley. I am not sure I have tasted better sauce at any Italian restaurant in the last ten years and it definitely beats store bought by a mile. One suggestion as others have noted, even if you are using salt free butter, skip the added salt. The cheese takes care of the salt requirement.
This turned out fabulous and pleased even my pickiest eater in the house! Will definitely be coming back to this delicious recipe! Thank you!
Best Alfredo ever
Just finished cooking added shrimp, excellent and super easy.
Superb!
We all loved it, even the kids!
I made this today for the first time making homemade sauce. We love it. Thank you very much for sharing this recipe
My second time making it. It’s so good and creamy. My family loves it.
So amazing. So good! My particular eaters in the family loved it too. Thank you for sharing such a delicious recipe!
Delicious and full of flavor, it’s the first recipe I ever used to make my own alfredo and I’ll never need another!
Love this recipe and simple instructions didn’t realize I could actually make such a delicious Alfredo sauce at home. 👍
how much pasta do you use? I don't want to make too much and it's not coated in sauce.
This makes enough for one pound of pasta
This is wonderful! I've made it before and my 10 year old made it today. Thanks for sharing such a tasty, easy recipe.
This is gluten-free!!! I thought I would just make it for my family, but I got to eat some over gluten free pasta! It was delicious. I usually can’t order it in restaurants any more. This is better than any Alfredo I have ever had!
Love this sauce! I make with my homemade fettuccine noodles and it’s fabulous!!
Love it. Fast , easy and delicious
This was so yummy!! My family loved it!! Thank you for sharing it.
This is actually one of the few recipes online that take the amount of time to cook as said by the author. This sauce is brilliant. I was really strapped for time so I used tubs of Kraft grated parm. cheese. I believe that the only thing that could have made this better is if I I had grated my own cheese.. My family added frozen broccoli to their pasta with a sliced boneless chicken breast resting on top and a couple spoons of the alfredo to dress it. Everyone loved it.