A can of cream of mushroom soup can be a real dinner saver. It works great in casseroles and can turn into a sauce or gravy in a pinch.

If you are cutting calories then this copycat recipe from Strings Restaurant is a good choice of Alfredo sauce. It uses non-fat milk, arrowroot starch, and non-fat cheese for a tasty but healthy recipe.

1 quart non-fat milk
1 tablespoon garlic salt
2 tablespoons Molly McButter
1/4 cup arrowroot starch
1/4 cup water
1 cup shredded non-fat mozzarella cheese
salt, to taste
white pepper, to taste
Combine all ingredients except for the starch, cheese and water and put into a sauce pan and bring to a boil.
Blend together the arrowroot and cold water then add slowly to the sauce, stirring constantly. Let sauce simmer for 2 minutes.
Remove from heat. Slowly add and blend in the cheese.
Penelope, Nebraska, USA
A can of cream of mushroom soup can be a real dinner saver. It works great in casseroles and can turn into a sauce or gravy in a pinch.
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reviews & comments
July 13, 2017
great recipe! I just added a little parmesan.
July 13, 2013
I love alfredo but don't need all those calories. I almost didn't look at thsi recipe because it didn't say lowfat in the title but when I read the ingredients I saw it was. Tastes great for being so low fat.
June 13, 2008
This was a wonderful low cal recipe, I just added a little parmasan cheese.
March 31, 2007
I modified to suit ingredients I had. Corn starch for Arrowroot. Added some shredded cheddar and parm in addition to the mozz. Liked the fact that this recipee uses milk instead of cream. Added a left over pork chop, red pepper flakes and some steamed broccoli and served over pasta. Came out pretty darn good!
March 13, 2007
yum yum in my tum. very good