Olive Garden Chicken Alfredo is my best friend’s favorite dish – so we’ve been eating it on a regular basis for about 30 years! This homemade sauce combines simple, fresh ingredients like butter, cream and parmesan cheese to make a rich topping to fettuccine pasta. Then it is topped with tender, sliced chicken.
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Olive Garden’s classic Chicken Alfredo is an easy and delicious choice for dinner. It’s creamy comfort food and is ready in just 15 minutes! The most time-consuming part is boiling the water! The alfredo sauce only takes about five minutes to make!
What’s in Olive Garden Alfredo?
There’s no egg in Olive Garden Alfredo but let me tell you it’s a dairy-lovers dream with butter, milk, cream and cheese! There’s also a little flour and garlic – and that’s it! Because there is a little flour in it though, it’s not gluten free. It is vegetarian but not vegan.
How do you make Olive Garden Chicken Alfredo?
- Cook pasta according to package directions
- While water is boiling, start chicken. I use air fryer at 360 for 12 minutes. You can also pan sear on medium heat or grill.
- When there is five min left on pasta, in a non-stick skillet over medium heat, add butter to pan. Once melted, add garlic to the pan.
- Cook for 1 minute, stirring occasionally
- Whisk in flour
- Quickly add in cream, milk and cheese.
- Whisk frequently until sauce simmers and remove from heat
- Drain pasta when done
- Remove chicken from air fryer and let rest for five minutes. Then slice.
- Add cooked pasta to alfredo and toss lightly. Top with sliced chicken.
- Serve and sprinkle with parmesan cheese and parsley
No. Why would you? You can make it in less than 10 minutes. Dairy doesn’t freeze well.
You can use any of the following: 2%, whole milk, half and half or cream – I like to balance it out. The more cream – the thicker. The more 2% – the thinner your sauce will be. If you’re JUST using 2% – you’ll have a fairly thin sauce and need to add more butter, cheese, flour.
Fettuccine is obviously a natural choic – but you can pretty much use any pasta. It’s a little heavy for angel hair – so you’d want to make a fairly thin sauce if using angel hair.
I like to air fry the chicken – I use pre-marinated chicken breasts and pop them in the air fryer for 12 minutes at 360. They come out juicy and perfect. You can also grill the chicken or pan sear it. I feel like the air fryer makes the juiciest chicken.
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Ingredients
- 2 Italian marinated chicken breasts
- 1/2 lb fettuccini
- 6 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp garlic minced
- 2 tbsp flour
- 1.5 cup whipping cream
- 1.5 cup 2% milk
- 1 cup Parmesan (or Romano) grated
Instructions
- Cook pasta according to package directions
- While water is boiling, start chicken. I use air fryer at 360 for 12 minutes. You can also pan sear on medium heat or grill.
- When there is five min left on pasta, in a non-stick skillet over medium heat, add butter to pan. Once melted, add garlic to the pan.
- Cook for 1 minute, stirring occasionally
- Whisk in flour
- Quickly add in cream, milk and cheese.
- Whisk frequently until sauce simmers and remove from heat
- Drain pasta when done
- Remove chicken from air fryer and let rest for five minutes. Then slice.
- Add cooked pasta to alfredo and toss lightly. Top with sliced chicken.
- Serve and sprinkle with parmesan cheese and parsley
My daughter loves the Fettucini Alfredo from Olive Garden so I will definitely be trying this recipe!
This recipe is delicious. My family loved it!
So yummy! I love how fast and easy it is to make, and everyone loves it!
Perfect Italian-style cooking – simple and good quality ingredients put together into a gorgeous dish. Delicious!
One of my families favorites. They will be extremely happy when I make this for them.
i guarantee it!
My son is so obsessed with their Alfredo noodles! Can’t wait to make this recipe again soon! So yummy and very tasty! So glad I can make this at home now!