Low Carb Alfredo Sauce with Spiralized Zucchini

Name: Low Carb Alfredo Sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 16 people
Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter; 2 cloves garlic (minced); 2 ounces cream cheese; 1 1/2 cup parmesan cheese (shredded); 2 cups heavy whipping cream; dash ground black pepper

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It’s so easy to make homemade low carb Alfredo sauce! Simply cook all the ingredients in a saucepan and serve over vegetable or shiratake noodles.

My husband has been pulling out some really nice zucchini from the garden. I’ll be using a couple to make a low carb chocolate cake and a zucchini bread.

Since we have so many, I spiralized one of the larger ones for an easy dinner. To turn the zucchini noodles into a meal, I topped them off with a homemade low carb Alfredo sauce.

In the past, I’ve use this recipe to make a simple sauce while following an egg fast diet plan. However, this time I wanted to make a larger batch with heavy cream which is typically avoided while egg fasting.

If you’ve never made your own sauce, you’ll be surprised how easy it is. You only need three basic ingredients: butter, heavy cream, and Parmesan cheese.

I like to add a few more ingredients to mine to enhance the flavor. For me, garlic is one of the best seasonings ever so I add in a few freshly minced cloves.

To make the sauce a bit thicker and creamier, I also melt in cream cheese. The other ingredient I add is a few shakes of fresh ground black pepper.

You can pretty much wing your own low carb Alfredo sauce. And, it’s much better to make it yourself because commercially prepared ones always contain unnecessary ingredients that up the carbs.

This recipe made about four cups of sauce. It’s plenty to serve sixteen people. I typically use about 1/4 cup per serving.

While spending a week away on the beaches in Outer Banks, North Carolina, I made simple meals. One of the things I made to share with my family was a spaghetti squash mixed with a jar of prepared Parmesan cheese sauce.

Although I could have easily made this super easy homemade low carb Alfredo sauce, I opted to buy one already made. I was on vacation and looking for minimal effort cooking.

In fact, that dish was so quick to prepare because I cooked the spaghetti squash in the microwave. It was a small squash that took only ten minutes to cook.

Have you ever cooked spaghetti squash in the microwave? It was my first time, but I may do it more often since it was so quick and easy.

All you have to do is poke holes with a knife or fork around the squash. Then, you microwave on high until done. Since mine was small, I only cooked it for ten minutes.

I didn’t even bother to slice the spaghetti squash first! I simply placed it whole in a baking pan with some water. The method I used is described here.

In the past, I’ve either slow cooked or pressured cooked a spaghetti squash. But, now that I’ve tried it in the microwave, I may not waste my time doing it the other ways.

You can find a simple spaghetti squash Alfredo recipe on this post. That sauce has a cream cheese base and doesn’t add heavy cream. So, if you’re sensitive to cream, you may prefer that recipe.

Low Carb Alfredo Sauce Recipe

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Low Carb Alfredo Sauce

It's so easy to make homemade Alfredo sauce! Simply cook all the ingredients in a saucepan then serve.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Italian

Keyword alfredo sauce, zucchini

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Total Time 15 minutes

Servings people

Calories 321kcal

Author Lisa | Low Carb Yum

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter
2 cloves garlic minced
2 ounces cream cheese
1 1/2 cup parmesan cheese shredded
2 cups heavy whipping cream
dash ground black pepper

US Customary - Metric

Low Carb Sweeteners | Keto Sweetener Conversion Chart

Instructions

Melt butter in medium saucepan over medium heat. Sauté garlic in hot butter until fragrant.
Blend in remaining ingredients and simmer for about 10 minutes or until sauce has thickened.

Notes

Sauce will thicken as it cools and will become very thick if stored in the refrigerator. Simply heat the sauce up for it to be pourable.

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts

Low Carb Alfredo Sauce

Amount Per Serving (0.25 cup)

Calories 321 Calories from Fat 252

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 28g 43%

Saturated Fat 18g 90%

Polyunsaturated Fat 1g

Monounsaturated Fat 7g

Cholesterol 87mg 29%

Sodium 706mg 29%

Potassium 65mg 2%

Total Carbohydrates 2g 1%

Sugars 1g

Protein 15g 30%

Vitamin A 19%

Calcium 49%

Iron 2%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Additional Info

Net Carbs 2g
% Carbs: 2.5%
% Protein: 18.8%
% Fat: 78.8%

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Low Carb Alfredo Sauce with Spiralized Zucchini

Low Carb Alfredo Sauce Recipe