Made my first ever Fettuccine Alfredo today, and it was so good.

I generally follow the American (2nd) version described in this YouTube video.

Ingredients

The dude in the video made the sauce for 14 oz of fettuccine, and 1 serving is supposed to be 2 oz, so I just divide all of the ingredient amount by 7.

Here are my ingredients:

  • fettuccine 2oz from ALDI
  • butter 15g from ALDI
  • heavy cream 40ml from Walmart
  • shredded parmesan cheese 35g from Costco
  • garlic powder from Walmart

Every recipe on the Internet says you should use grated cheese but I only had shredded cheese and I didn’t have a grater as well so I just went with it. They also say use should use actual garlic but I really don’t eat garlic much so I just bought a small container of garlic powder from Walmart.

Steps

I followed the steps in the videos fairly religiously as this was my first time making a Fettuccine Alfredo, or any spaghetti actually (I cook a lot of Mac n Cheese tho).

Here are my steps:

Pasta

  1. add fettuccine to a big saucepan
  2. add some salt
  3. medium heat 12 min.
  4. drain but keep some water

Alfredo Sauce

  1. add heavy cream and butter to a small saucepan
  2. medium heat until butter melt
  3. low heat to let it simmer for 4 min.
  4. add cheese and garlic powder
  5. medium heat until cheese melt

Merge

  1. drained pasta and some pasta water into the sauce and mix
  2. done

Result

I pan-fried + steamed some chicken breast and veggies in another pan and added them to the plate as well.

The Fettuccine Alfredo tasted like what I got from TGI Friday’s for real. The garlic powder worked surprisingly great.

I used to go to Friday’s a lot with my family back in Taiwan, and my favorite dishes were the Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey Ribs and the Fettuccine Alfredo. Now that I can make both the ribs with this fake but pretty real TGI FRIDAYS Signature Whiskey Sauce on Amazon and the Fettuccine Alfredo, there’s literally no reason for the restaurant to exist anymore.

There was still room for improvements tho. First of all, I really should have used grated cheese instead because with shredded cheese there were still some blocks of solid cheese unable to fully melt and mix with the others. Secondly, I should have made over 1 serving of Alfredo sauce because it’s more ideal for the veggies and chicken to be mixed with the sauce as well but I just didn’t have enough of it.

Still, I was really shocked by how authentic my Fettuccine Alfredos tasted. I thought the sauce would turn out to be some weird white and milky but kind of thin Asian European fusion style white sauce like what my mom made.