Showing posts with label Pasta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pasta. Show all posts

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Simple Alfredo Sauce

Monday night is Pasta night at our house! This is the Alfredo sauce I use regularly because I generally have all the ingredients on hand. 

1/2 cup butter
1 8oz. cream cheese 
2 tsp. garlic powder
2 c. milk (I usually use 1% but any should work)
6 oz. Parmesan (I just use the bottled/shaker kind)
1/8 tsp. ground black pepper

Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add garlic powder and cream cheese (it helps to soften it and cut it in to cubes).  Whisk until smooth. Add milk a bit at a time and keep whisking to smooth out lumps. Stir in Parmesan and pepper. Whisk until sauce reaches desired consistency. Sauce will keep thickening after removed from heat. Add a bit of milk if it gets too thick. Serve over hot pasta. Sometimes I like to add cooked/chopped broccoli to it as well.


*This makes enough to feed my family and we usually have enough leftover to make a chicken alfredo pizza on Saturdays pizza night :)