Alfredo Sauce
If you are a fan of Italian pasta dishes, then the Alfredo sauce is no stranger to you. In fact, this particular sauce is considered as a base sauce where additional ingredients and cooking methods can be added in order to get other sauces for pasta.
Alfredo is a sauce recipe which has the two basic ingredients of cheese and cream. Although the dish can be dated back to Italy, it was the US tourists in Rome that popularized the sauce. These tourists got to taste the dish in Rome by a restaurateur named Alfredo di Lelio that served the sauce with his own name attached to it. For this reason, the Fettuccine al burro is often associated with every tourist in Rome. This can also be because the original Alfredo sauce was successful when it was served in a reminiscent of the grand opera.
The story of the restaurant behind this dish is that di Lelio invented the Alfredo sauce at his restaurant called Alfredo alla Scrofa back in 1914. It was said that di Lelio created the sauce in an attempt to produce a variation of the Fettuccine al burro. The restaurant then became famous when Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford stopped in and found the dish memorable during their honeymoon back in 1927. In lieu of the dish, they presented a golden fork and spoon as well as a photo of them dining in his restaurant. The newlyweds then served the dish to their friends when they went back to Hollywood. For this, the new meal’s popularity spread like wildfire. And the rest is history.
Ingredients
- 1 cup Heavy Cream
- 1½ cups Parmesan Cheese, freshly grated
- ¼ cup Butter
- ¼ cup fresh Parsley, chopped
- 1 clove Garlic, crushed
Directions
In a medium saucepan, melt butter over medium low heat.
Add the cream and let simmer for 5 minutes.
Add cheese and garlic, whisk quickly so that it heats through.
Stir in the parsley, mix Alfredo sauce with pasta before serving.
Tips
Other names for this sauce include Pasta al burro (pasta with butter) in south Italy and Pasta in bianco (pasta with white) in the north. You might be interested in a larger collection of Alfredo recipes.
