Fettuccine Alfredo
Easy pasta cream sauce recipe with a few ingredients.
Ingredients
- fettuccine 1 small package serves 4 or 6 500g
- 2 T olive Oil
- 1 cup diced ham
- 1/2 diced onion or grated, if you prefer
- 1/2 - 1 cup Parmesan cheese grated (I prefer to grate my own as it has a more intense flavor that way)
- 500 ml heavy cream
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a saucepan on the stove top, saute onion in 2 T oil (evoo).
- When onion is nearly translucent (2-3 minutes), add diced ham and sauté for an additional minute or 2.
- Add 500 ml heavy cream and cook over med heat, stirring and watching the entire time.
- Add grated parmesan
- continue to cook over med heat, the sauce will thicken (don't let it boil or it could split)
- heat until reduced to your desired consistency is achieved.
- more cheese can be added if you prefer a very strong parmesan flavor
- Taste for seasoning and add pepper and salt (if needed). The parmesan is salty, so you may not need any additional salt.
- meanwhile while sauce is reducing, cook pasta in salted water until el Dente 9-10 minutes, then drain, reserving 1 cup of the pasta water.
- add the pasta to the sauce and toss (or stir or shake the pan) to coat the pasta with the sauce. Add pasta water a bit at a time to loosen the sauce as needed. Serve Immediately
Notes
This is a simple but delicious pasta sauce which can be modified to your liking by adding whatever you like to make it yours. You can also use different pastas and use this sauce recipe as a base then add your own flavors such as bacon, mushrooms, spinach. The options are endless. Just remember to use good quality parmesan cheese (the shrink wrapped kind is the best) that will enhance the flavor of your base sauce.