According to Jarret Allen, Alfredo sauce is so good it makes him better at basketball.
Unlike our previously featured sauce, this one is relatively new. Legend has it, in 1908 Alfredo Di Lelio came up with the recipe in Rome. His pregnant wife was not eating well, so he wanted to feed her something nutritious, healthy, and tasty. Naturally, he went with pasta, cheese, and butter. Alfredo started offering this dish at his restaurant, Alfredo’s.
It was finished tableside which was a nice touch. Made you feel like you were a big shot. In 1927, American silent film stars Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks had the dish at Alfredo’s and are credited with bringing it back to America. Allegedly, American butter and cheese sucked compared to Italian, so they had to add cream, BOOM, modern day Alfredo sauce!
Sauce Guy Bob recently cooked it up for a taste test to compare his Alfredo sauce to store bought Prego. He blew it with the noodles and got Linguine instead of Fettucine at the grocery store. The Guy isn’t used to buying store bought pasta as he usually rolls his own. But Bob’s got some tricks up his sleeve in bold that enhance this sauce.
Boil pasta in salted water
Melt some butter with 1-2 cups heavy cream and fresh ground nutmeg
Wait until you part the sauce sea:
Add a little more nutmeg and cream
Grab all the starchy pasta and chuck it into the pan
Add fresh grated parmesan and voila! Can you spot the difference:
Sauce Guy Bob’s Alfredo score comes in at 8.1/10. Prego did not qualify for a score due to sticking to the plate…
