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.
Loved this sauce. Switched it up a bit because I had fresh garden yellow summer squash and grilled chicken. I sauteed the garlic and sliced squash in butter until soft, Added the cream, parmesan and seasonings. I had a lemon and some lemon pepper that I added. It was delicious!!
This was so quick & easy!! I needed dinner fast and delicious. I always keep some sort of ravioli or tortellini in the freezer and thankfully I had all the ingredients for the alfredo in the fridge & I was able to whip up dinner in about 15 mins. The only thing I changed was instead of adding Italian seasoning I added pesto. My daughter LOVED it & asked for me to make it again & I def will!
It looks really good i wish i could put my hand in there and take abite.i love anything that has cheese in it its probably because iam mostly all italian.
This was delicious. Thanks for the recipe.
Absolutely delicious!!
I make this all the time for my family. We like to add lemon pepper top it. It brings it over the top delicious.
How long will this keep in this refrigerator?
i loved it!! one note: if you like onions, adding diced onions in with the garlic adds a whole new flavor and i really like it! great recipe 🙂
My husband love this and told me I now have to make this weekly! I did leave out the Italian seasoning as I want more of an authentic flavor. I did change up the cheese adding a Parmesan and Fontina mix and more garlic! (we love garlic). Used half and half as I read others did and added blackened chicken. This sauce is so easy and delicious. Thanks for sharing this great recipe.
After tasting jar alfredo, I decided to look up a recipe and I must say….AWESOME SAUCE. I will continue to walk pass the jars of alfredo on the shelf and buy the ingredients to make this sauce.
OMG Delish!!