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Creamy Alfredo Sauce Recipe

This Alfredo sauce recipe is one of my favorites. It may not win the low fat diet recipe of the year award, but for a special treat you can't beat cream, cheese and pasta together!

As Italian pasta recipes go, this is one of the best and most decadent.

Have a look at the Tips and Variations section below to see how you can turn this simple pasta recipe into a variety of easy dinner recipes.

Ingredients:
2 cups cream (heavy, or 35% cream is best)
1/4 cup cold butter
1/4 cup parmesan cheese, grated
salt and pepper (ideally white pepper)
pasta (fettucini, penne or tortellini are great)
fresh parsley, chopped for garnish
extra parmesan cheese

Heat a large saucepan over high heat until very hot. Add just enough cold water to cover the bottom of the pan. Let the water evaporate (it will do this quickly) but make sure there are a few drops left in the pan. This will keep the cream from scorching and burning on the bottom of the pan. Remove the pan from the heat.

Add the cream to the pan and return it to the heat. When the cream comes to a boil, reduce heat to medium/ medium high and continue to boil until it is reduced by half.

In the meantime, cook pasta in well salted water according to package directions. Drain well when cooked.

When the cream is reduced remove it from the heat. Add butter 1 tablespoon at a time and whisk it in. The cream should thicken and turn glossy. Add the cheese and hot pasta to the cream. Season with salt and pepper and garnish with chopped fresh parsley.

Serve immediately (with added parmesan cheese for me!).

Tips:

Turning this into a penne alfredo pasta recipe or a fettucini with alfredo sauce recipe is easy - just change the pastas you use! The different shapes of pasta are all made from the same dough, so if you want Fettucini Alfredo, just boil fettucini noodles and mix it with this wonderful alfredo sauce. Change the noodles to penne pasta and you have a delicious penne alfredo pasta recipe. Simple Italian goodness!

The classic pasta with alfredo sauce recipe is just that. Pasta with a cheesy cream sauce. I love one dish meals, so I will often saute vegetables like zucchini, red peppers, onions and even more garlic and add them to the final dish. A meal in a bowl!

Try adding some steamed broccoli to the pasta dish. We all love broccoli with cheese sauce. This one is kicked up a notch and yet another easy dinner recipe.

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