Italian

Fettuccine Alfredo

Name: Fettuccine Alfredo
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 5 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 lb fettuccine; 1/2 cup butter; 1.5 cups heavy cream; 1.5 cups grated parmesan; 2 garlic cloves; 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg; 1/2 tsp black pepper; 2 tbsp chopped parsley; 1/2 tsp salt

Marco @marco_bologna

Fettuccine Alfredo is Italian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

25 min Medium Vegetarian Halal Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 lb fettuccine
1/2 cup butter
1.5 cups heavy cream
1.5 cups grated parmesan
2 garlic cloves
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp black pepper
2 tbsp chopped parsley
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and cook the fettuccine until al dente, reserving a cup of pasta water.
Melt the butter in a wide skillet over medium heat and cook the garlic until fragrant, 1 minute.
Pour in the cream and simmer gently until slightly thickened, about 3 minutes.
Whisk in the parmesan and nutmeg until smooth.
Add the drained pasta and toss, loosening with pasta water until the sauce coats every strand.
Season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with parsley, and serve immediately.

Watch how to cook Fettuccine Alfredo

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Serve it with

A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Fettuccine Alfredo, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens)
  
  20 min
Something cool and fresh
- Insalata Caprese (Caprese Salad)
  
  10 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Fettuccine Alfredo carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Fettuccine Alfredo
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Chicken Cacciatore
Gluten	Yes	Butternut Squash Risotto
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 750 kcal
Protein: 23 g
Carbs: 66 g
Fat: 44 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 720 mg
Saturated fat: 26 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Fettuccine Alfredo takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.