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Easy Alfredo Sauce
5 stars based on 12 reviews
Ready in: Under 30 minutes ?
Difficulty: 3/5
Serves/Makes: 4
photo by: CDKitchen Staff
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INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup butter
8 ounces cream cheese (room temperature best)
2 tablespoons flour
2 cups whole milk (cream or half and half)
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
salt and pepper, to taste
***Lower Fat recipe***
1/2 cup butter (margarine just doesn't work good)
8 ounces lowfat cream cheese or Nefuchatel cheese
2 cups (1%) or skim milk
4 tablespoons flour
1/2 Parmesan cheese
salt and pepper
DIRECTIONS:
Melt butter over a low heat (do not burn of the sauce will be nutty flavor). With a whisk, mix in the cream cheese and whisk until completely combined. (At first it will seem like it won't combine, but keep stirring until you do).
Once you have the butter and cream cheese mixed, pour in the milk (cream or half and half) the flour and continue to whisk.
Once the mixture heats up and the cream cheese mixture and milk have combined into a smooth cream, add salt, pepper and parmesan cheese and stir until combined. Let sit for a few minutes to thicken.
Lower fat recipe: Follow the directions above. This will be a slightly thinner sauce, but will thicken upon standing.
NUTRITION:
This Easy Alfredo Sauce recipe from CDKitchen serves/makes 4
Recipe ID: 2385
REVIEWS:
Guest: Lisa 2008-09-01
Thank you!!! It was easy and very tasty! I did up the cheese a bit and added some veggies but what a great base to start with!
kimmiejo 2008-02-07
My sister in-law made this recipe this past weekend and it was very very good. I loved it and it was a huge success and very easy to make. I can't wait to try it at home.
Guest: Anonymous 2007-06-20
Thank you for sharing this recipe. I made a half-recipe of a "medium-fat" version based on what was available in my kitchen, i.e. skim milk and regular cream cheese. I was very happy with how it came out. This is definitely a keeper in my book.
Guest: Sarah 2007-02-11
I thought it was GREAT! I used about 5oz cream cheese isnstad of 8 and ussed extra flour. I also used MARGARINE! (it says you shouldn't, but it was still great!!
Guest: Anonymous 2006-08-10
I tried it with garlic salt,just a little,and 3/4 cup parmesan and it was very good.
mskitty 2006-02-19
This recipe was wonderful. My only addition would be to use garlic salt instead of regular salt to give it a little more Italian flavor. This recipe even tasted good cold. A definite keeper.
blairmisty 2006-07-26
This is a great recipe. I added a pressed clove of garlic in when I melted my butter. I will make it again!
Guest: vegetarian 2006-03-20
this recipe is great. add some steamed broccoli with mushrooms and red peppers sauted with white wine-fabulous!!
Anjaleck 2005-05-22
This recipe was truly easy and tasty! The only reason I didn't give it a "5" is that I felt it needed a little more parmesan.
Guest: Anonymous 2006-09-08
I definitely agree with reviews suggesting to add garlic and increase the amount of parmesan cheese. I probably won't make this particular recipe again. The cream cheese taste was too prominent, as well.
Guest: Anonymous 2007-09-27
Really good and easy, I also added italian 5 cheese blend, and ricotta cheese and i put this on egg noodles and steamed broccoli. My kids who are extremely picky loved it. i will use this recipe forever...
DosMaridosUK 2007-05-12
This traditional recipe is as good as the rest, although it is easy to follow if one understands the spelling errors. This may be difficult for new cooks unfamiliar with ingredients and utensils listed, especially if the chef writes a shopping list and searches labels according to the spelling provided. The corrections below should eliminate confusion: Margerine = Margarine Nefuchatel = Neuchâtel Wisk = Whisk
