Olive Garden Chicken Alfredo is an easy pasta dinner and a delicious meal that the whole family will love. It's creamy comfort food and is ready in just 15 minutes!
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.
2 Italian marinated chicken breasts
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.
6 tbsp butter, 1 tbsp garlic
Cook for 1 minute, stirring occasionally
Whisk in flour
2 tbsp flour
Quickly add in cream, milk and cheese.
1.5 cup whipping cream, 1.5 cup 2% milk, 1 cup Parmesan (or Romano)
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
Notes
Can you freeze alfredo?Technically - sure - but the sauce "breaks" and separates when you reheat. So you can - if you just have 1-2 portions but definitely don't make a full batch of alfredo sauce and freeze. You can make this homemade alfredo sauce in less than 10 minutes - it's not a time saver to freeze it.
What if I don’t have cream?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.
What pasta goes best with alfredo?Fettucini is obviously a natural – 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.