Silky Creamy Alfredo Sauce
Restaurant-quality cling, 13g of protein a serving, and not one drop of heavy cream.
White-Sauce Lore
Alfredo is the sauce that ends diets. Butter, heavy cream, and a hill of Parmesan — a half cup of the restaurant version runs north of 400 calories and almost none of it is protein. The rebuild isn't a diet sauce that pretends; it's a different engine entirely. Blended cottage cheese brings the body, reduced-fat cream cheese brings the richness, and a cornstarch slurry does the thickening that cream fat used to do. The result pours, coats, and clings like the real thing — and carries 13g of protein per serving instead of 40g of fat.
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Silky Creamy Alfredo Sauce
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Default serving: ½ cup ≈ 4 oz / 120 g — 125 cal • 13g protein • 4g fat • 9g carbs • ~320 mg sodium
Macros: USDA FoodData Central (cottage cheese, garlic) + label data (reduced-fat cream cheese, fat-free milk, low-sodium broth, Parmesan, cornstarch) • calculated with fat-free milk and 2% cottage cheese • sodium varies with broth and Parmesan brand.
The Numbers Up Front
Yield: ~2 cups (4 servings)
Default Portion: ½ cup sauce
✂️ Trim Trim Trim
Heavy cream is the entire problem and blended cottage cheese is the entire answer. A cup of heavy cream is ~800 calories and ~86g of fat; ½ cup of blended 2% cottage cheese is ~90 calories with ~12g of protein. The cream cheese stays — at ¼ cup of the reduced-fat kind it's what keeps the sauce tasting indulgent rather than like thinned dairy, and it's a small enough pour to be worth every calorie. Two tablespoons of Parmesan do the savory heavy lifting that half a cup used to.
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📊 Before & After(per ½ cup)
| Calories | Protein | Fat | Carbs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurant Alfredo Sauce | 440 | 6g | 42g | 6g |
| ⭐ Silky Creamy Alfredo | 125 | 13g | 4g | 9g |
| You Saved / Gained | −315 cal | +7g protein | −38g fat | +3g carbs |
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