Carla's Optimized Alfredo Sauce

Alfredo isn't mysterious. Pasta. Butter. Cheese. Salt. Pepper. It isn't kid pasta, but kids love it. It isn't a cream sauce, please don't put cream in it. It is the most elemental of the emulsified pasta sauces using pasta water and a spoon and some residual heat. It's perfect, and so are you.

0:00 Pasta Water Hoax
1:09 Behold: Blender Parm!
4:51 Five Ingredients
5:42 Till Death Do Us Pot
8:51 Half Pound Per Person, Right?

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Producer: Zoie Omega

Director of Photography: Tim Racca

Food Stylist: Cybelle Tondu

Editor and Comic Genius: Meg Felling

Theme music "Magic Hours" by Amy Crawford

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[CarlaLalliMusic]

The part where the parm is in the blender makes me salivate hbu

[carynbrock]

Okay, I've thought about this for a while but this video solidifies it - I need a Carla and Matteo Lane collab!!!

[thatghostghoul]

omg! I used to make your BA version of alfredo but at a certain point I got too lazy for all the work and dishes so I ended up making it exactly like this! I thought I reinvented the wheel with how delicious and quick it was, I even called it my lazy girl pasta haha. Lovely video! ♥

[thomas-aherne]

I’m so glad you redid this recipe, I tried the original years ago and everything was clumpy and weird 😢. You coming back and listening to the critiques and being humble enough to revaluate the recipe is very cool of you. I’m excited to retry this one 😎

[niko]

Here in Argentina we call this "fideos con queso" and it's considered the staple food of poor/low income college students without job (or poorly paid) 😅 it's interesting to me how you can view it as a simplified version of a complicated recipe, and it's SO simple that a person without cooking experience can make it, but also being so sooo delicious and filling! I'll definitely be making "mommy pasta" for dinner soon (even though I graduated years ago and have a full time job now 😁) Thanks for bringing back memories, Carla!! Much love from the south 💙

[itsjustjakeee]

carla, I will never skip a video when you pop up on my feed! you're always a pure joy to watch/learn from & every video just feels like I'm sitting with one of my besties & she's schooling me in the kitchen while giving me a huge hug haha! thank you for always sharing your incredible witt & knowledge in the art of cuisine! nothing but the best vibes here queen!! 🥰

[lovingthelessloved]

i LOVE the idea of optimizing a recipe to make it faster, easier, vegan, cheaper, fewer/basic ingredients, kosher, etc. i just love perfecting something in every way and would love to see you do more of these types of videos. i love that you offer specific spin its to make your recipes more accesible xoxo

[GwynneDear]

I had the clumpy cheese problem, and honestly I found the problem was adding the cheese when the heat was still on, or even when the pan had not cooled enough.

[maxfreer]

Once Carla taught me how to alfredo, I never went back. I’m a college student and make this whenever I don’t have other groceries or it’s a special occasion.

[Psysium]

Forget butter boards, we need parm parties! Thanks for all the delicious inspiration Carla!

[aeshnaroy]

Hi Carla! I’ve always loved your videos and often watched them while my 4 year old daughter is around playing or colouring. This week she came home from school and instead of the usual cartoons said ‘let’s watch Carla cooking!’ She’s part of the Carla Fan Club now! Much love from Gurgaon, India

[ryansmith]

I tried the BA recipe years ago and for me it worked perfectly every time. It’s one of my favorite easy recipes.

[nicmaci]

My hubby and I couldn’t figure out what to do for dinner then we watched this video. Omg it’s so good. We only had shells tho, and we toasted some panko and sprinkled that on top, turned out amazing


Edit to add: it’s a different kind of amazing the next day 😍

[iwanttotelltheworld]

Pasta Daddy here :) Love it, keep making vids please, you are a National Treasure. Be blessed ALL. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[OneOlive]

Everything about this looks delicious! You taught me how to make Alfredo a few years back and I still make it just the way you showed back then!

[TheTumbleFever]

So made this 3 times. The first two times-amazing, incredible, easy, breezy, beautiful, cheesy. But the third time it kinda just went to hell in a basket. I went to add cheese to the water and butter mixture and it just clumped up and turned into a giant gooey ball in water. How? Why? What? Help?

[zynthio]

idk what the "official" term for alfredo is with cream in it. White sauce? Idk. But I prefer the richness of the white sauce with the cream in it. Do I care if it's traditional italian? No. I guess it's basically an italian-american fusion food at this point with how long it's been around? And it's delicious, so I will continue to make it that way because its one of my favorite foods

[sgregorybird]

OMG. This is my midnight pasta. I'll get to wanting something salty but not too salty and creamy but not too creamy, so at 12 am I'll be standing in the kitchen with a pot of noodles. Sometimes I'll use a block of ramen for the noodles, broken up, and use the chicken packet for seasoning.

[gianpaolovignera]

Great job..and it s beautiful that even once we grow up, changing our lives and so forth, there are still some memories abiding in our hearts!

[dserdsing]

5:35 OMG the bombastic side-eye for the cream-in-alfredo-sauce people 😆