Easy Alfredo Sauce

This Alfredo Sauce will take as long or even a shorter time to make than for you to boil your pasta.  It is that easy and quick.  This recipe is decadent as can be but can be healthy-fied with the use of low fat spread like Smart Balance rather than butter and low fat cream cheese rather than the original.  This is a crowd pleaser in topping any pasta. I used homemade fettucine pasta I bought at a fundraising event but you can use any commercial one.

The presence of cream cheese makes the consistency of the sauce to be thick.  The milk helps you modulate this thickness.  The Parmesan cheese, garlic, garlic powder and dry minced onions round up the taste of this Alfredo Sauce which is comparable or even better than the bottled ones. 

Easy Alfredo Sauce

• 1/2 stick butter
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 4 oz cream cheese
• 1/4 cup 2 % milk. use more or less according to thickness of sauce you prefer
• 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
• 1/2 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tbsp dry minced onions, optional
• salt and pepper to taste

Melt butter in a saute pan.  Add the garlic to the butter and saute till softened.  Lower the heat and add the cream cheese and blend the mixture.  Add the milk gradually till you have the consistency you like.  Add the Parmesan cheese, garlic powder and dry onions (if using).  Season with salt and pepper to taste.  Use to top fettucine or any other pasta you like.