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Alfredo Sauce

Categories Easy Recipes, Main Course, Sauces

This Alfredo sauce is a super simple garlic and cream sauce. It tastes delicious over pasta, used as a dipping sauce or served with chicken.

It’s a simple roux version of the sauce, which simply means it’s a mix of butter and flour that is used to thicken the sauce, as opposed to cornstarch and water to thicken. If you want to make this gluten free, you can use gluten free baking mix instead of flour or you can use 1 tablespoon cornstarch mixed in with the milk before cooking instead of the flour in the butter mixture.

What you need to make Alfredo sauce:

makes ~ 2 1/2 cups or enough for 1 pound of pasta

  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 tablespoons flour
  • 1 tablespoon minced garlic
  • 1 cup cream
  • 1 1/2 cups milk
  • 1 teaspoon salt – more to taste
  • 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese – grated or shredded both work

Instructions

  1. Heat butter and garlic in a sauce pan, sprinkle with flour and stir over medium heat until mixture start to thicken and garlic starts to soften.
  2. Whisk in the cream, milk and salt and bring to a boil.
  3. When the mixture starts to thicken and can coat the back of a spoon, whisk in the Parmesan cheese.
  4. Cook to the desire thickness and remove from heat.

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Alfredo Sauce

Easy creamy garlic Alfredo sauce
Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time10 minutes
Course: Appetizer, Dinner, Main Course, Sauce
Cuisine: Italian, pasta, Sauce
Keyword: Barbecue Sauce, Easy Recipes, Italian, Kids Favorite, pasta
Servings: 2 cups

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 tablespoons flour
  • 1 tablespoon minced garlic
  • 1 cup cream
  • 1 1/2 cups milk
  • 1 teaspoon salt – more to taste
  • 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese – grated or shredded both work

Instructions

  • Heat butter and garlic in a sauce pan, sprinkle with flour and stir over medium heat until mixture start to thicken and garlic starts to soften.
  • Whisk in the cream, milk and salt and bring to a boil.
  • When the mixture starts to thicken and can coat the back of a spoon, whisk in the Parmesan cheese.
  • Cook to the desire thickness and remove from heat.