Perfect, creamy, classic, restaurant quality Fettuccine Alfredo. Sure, not the most nutritious meal. Homemade alfredo sauce you won’t go up a jeans size!
Fettucine Alfredo I triple checked the nutrition analysis because I couldn’t believe my eyes when it came out with only 420 calories for a good size serving of this pasta. I have it in my head that Alfredo is so bad for you because it’s made with cream. Sure, there’s a high fat content. But the calories are a lot less than I expected. So you don’t need to use an entire tub of cream to make a beautiful, restaurant quality Alfredo pasta.
I have seen recipes around that use double the amount of cream I use. It’s completely unnecessary and makes it sickeningly rich. If anyone tells me they don’t think this is rich enough, I’ll honestly fall off my chair. Made this for a dinner party, my friends said it was JUST LIKE what you get at PROPER Italian restaurants! I was 24 before I had my first Alfredo pasta. And now I believe to my very core that cooking with cream for midweek meals is just not acceptable. I grew up learning all the other ways to make creamy sauces other than using cream.