No Italian pasta cuisine is complete without topping it up with Italy’s favorite alfredo sauce. It’s a standard white sauce that can fill your pasta with the rich creamy delight and pamper your taste buds. Alfredo sauce is very easy to prepare at home. The freshly made sauce is far superior in taste than what you buy from the store. Also, you can always alter the recipe a little bit to suit your taste. When it comes to Italian cooking, fettuccine alfredo is a very famous pasta recipe in which the sauce is all that creates the magic. Alfredo sauce is used everywhere, be it the top hotels or your favorite restaurant in various Italian dishes. Here’s a step-by-step instruction guide that will help you make the delicious alfredo sauce all on your own and that too in juts few minutes.
Complexity Level: Basic
Time Required: 20-25 minutes
Resources Required:
- Stove/burner
- Saucepan
- Cheese Grater
- Kitchen Knife
- Butter- 1 stick
- Heavy Whipping Cream- 2 cups
- Parmesan Cheese- 1/2 cup (grated)
- Romano or cream cheese – 1/2 cup (grated)
- Garlic cloves- 2 (minced)
Instructions:
1. Melt the butter
Cut the butter stick into cubes. Melt them slowly at a low heat in the saucepan. The idea is just to melt the butter and not boil.
2. Add garlic
After the butter is melted, add the minced garlic to the butter and stir-fry for 2 minutes at a very low heat. You donât want the butter to vaporize before you can add the remaining ingredients.
3. Add heavy cream
Slowly add heavy whipping cream in the butter. Keep the liquid at a medium-low heat and stir to mix well.
4. Add cheese
Very slowly add grated cheese at intervals. Make sure you keep stirring the mixture so that the cheese can mix uniformly in the melted butter and cream and lumps are not formed. Let the liquid to simmer and stir to make sure that it does not get burned. Add both parmesan and romano cheese (finely grated) one-by-one and stir to form a substantial sauce then simmer. After all the cheese is mixed, reduce the heat further.
5. Thicken the sauce
Cook the sauce for about 10 minutes on a low heat. This will allow the alfredo sauce to thicken in texture. Stir the sauce continuously for a uniform distribution of heat to make sure that the sauce does not get burned at the bottom.
6. Remove the heat
After stirring the sauce for about 10 minutes, remove the heat. Top it up on your favorite pasta and serve.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Can I make alfredo sauce with milk?
Alternatively, milk can also be used to prepare alfredo sauce instead of cream. Some flour will also be required to thicken the sauce and the preparation time will increase. Different people have different taste. This recipe will be less authentic but might be more pleasing in taste to some.
Quick Tips:
- You can also use low-fat cheese and cream to make a low-fat alfredo sauce. Try the standard sauce until you have a diet plan to follow.
- You may or may not use garlic cloves to make alfredo sauce. But stir-frying garlic before adding cream and cheese adds a new dimension to the flavor of the sauce and gives it a thicker texture.
- While you serve the sauce with pasta, you can also grate a little more parmesan cheese and basil as toppings.
- For an even thicker sauce, you can also use cream cheese.
Things To Watch Out For:
- While adding cheese in butter and cream, stir continuously and pay extra attention to ensure that the cheese does not stick to the pan.
- Use a wooden spoon to stir rather than metal so that if you leave the spoon in the heating pan even for a minute, you donât burn your fingers while picking it up.
