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.
Few ingredients, simple – outstanding. Grandkids can be choosy, but this sauce is a favorite and a keeper. I also omit the salt as the cheese more than makes up for it.
This was so easy to make and so delicious!
Excellent!
Made it tonight was delicious I did not stray at all from the recipe even though it was just for me (would feed easily family of 4) it is light.but not watery it clung to my angel hair pasta
Really really good !
Very nice recipe chef 👍👌👏. Thank you for your effort 🌹 and wishing you and your love one’s a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025 👋🌹🎇🎆🎁🎁🎁🍾🥂
It’s amazing!!! Scored me some points with the Wife 😉
I was really impressed with how easy and tasty this was. I added more pepper and used preshredded parm, it wasn’t perfectly smooth but really close, and it was honestly so delicious.
So good! Will make again!
So yummy! So easy to make. I too adjust the cheese to cream ratio only to make it super creamy and add equal parts cream to cheese. And spot on noting that fresh off the block cheese is the best! This will now enter my dinner rotation!
Made the sauce as directed! Absolutely phenomenal! Spooned over linguine topped with pan seared chicken thighs (chopped) and sprinkled with bacon! Amazing! One of top 3 meals I’ve ever made. Definitely gonna do this again. Next time with steak instead of chicken.