How to Buy Ingredients for Homemade Alfredo Sauce
Alfredo sauce is a rich, creamy pasta sauce that can be made at home with little difficulty. With a sauce this decadent, choosing the right ingredients is important. Here's how to find and buy the best ingredients to make a delicious homemade Alfredo sauce. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Salt
- Ground black pepper
- Parsley
- Romano cheese
- Olive oil
- Heavy cream
- Butter
- Nutmeg (optional)
Instructions
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Visit your local grocery store and purchase the olive oil, nutmeg (if desired), salt and ground black pepper. If you have a pepper mill, you can purchase whole peppercorns and grind them as you prepare the sauce. You can also substitute white pepper to give the Alfredo sauce a milder flavor.
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Choose your parsley. Dried parsley, which is available in the spice aisle, is fine for this dish, but fresh parsley will work as well. This is available in the produce section and comes in both flat leaf and Italian, or curly, varieties.
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Locate the butter and heavy cream in the store's refrigerated section. For each pound of pasta, you will need about a quart of heavy cream.
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Select your cheese. Grated Romano cheese produces a milder flavor in the alfredo sauce, but you can use Parmesan cheese as well. Using Parmesan cheese produces a sweeter, more pronounced flavor. Parmesan cheese is available in grated or shredded in the store's refrigerated section.
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Tips & Warnings
Fresh Parmesan cheese can add an even more richly textured flavor to your Alfredo sauce. Visit your local grocery store's specialty cheese section, often located near the deli, for Parmesan cheese in block form that you can grate at home.
Adding a pinch of nutmeg creates another interesting flavor in the background of your pasta sauce.
Serve the Alfredo sauce over fresh pasta for a truly delicious meal. Fresh pasta can be found in the refrigerated section of your local grocery store, or at specialty Italian markets.
