Carla's Optimized Alfredo Sauce

[@CarlaLalliMusic123]

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

[@hazelacosta8296]

I've made many pastas where I tried to have a luscious sauce with pasta water and parm (mircoplane parm) but it never really emulsified. I've watched you use blender parm so I tried it and it changed my life forever. Glossy sauce for days!!

[@ethanpschwartz]

Grinding black pepper into a cheese sauce is what got me.

[@richardwillhide1157]

Gayyy I love it yasss

[@xyzpdq1122]

Is that a new tattoo on your left arm or am I oblivious ?

[@xyzpdq1122]

I’ll eat a wedge of parm like an apple btw

[@carynbrock4667]

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

[@kb2023]

Exactly 💯💯💯💯

[@Platyperosn]

YES

[@esymphonykea93]

💯 💯 💯

[@connorstanton04]

I got served a Matteo video right after this ended. All signs point to YES

[@j4kJak88]

1000%

[@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 😎

[@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.

[@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!! 🥰

[@lovingthelessloved3679]

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

[@Madisonisnotmynamedummy-tx8xk]

Why vegan? Why?

[@lovingthelessloved3679]

@@Madisonisnotmynamedummy-tx8xk why meat?

[@Madisonisnotmynamedummy-tx8xk]

@@lovingthelessloved3679 because it’s the most nutrient dense food that humans can digest. Because herbivores are usually equipped with a complex digestive system in order to properly digest plants and absorb the nutrients, which humans don’t have. Also most vegan food is highly processed and seasoned to taste like meat, because deep down humans are meat eaters no matter how much they try to avoid it.

[@nicmaci7087]

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 😍

[@Psysium]

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

[@rachelsweets]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@maxfreer6455]

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.

[@pamelajoy67]

100% back to back, Love Boat and Fantasy Island. I wish I had this pasta to precede them, though. I'm a mommy and I will be trying this out.

[@iseley]

I've made the original method Alfredo before, but I prefer it with cream. It just has a better texture and flavor. Please don't murder me.

[@ryansmith83]

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

[@jakegilesmusic]

Gahhhh this was so so helpful. In recipes that call for grated parm, I would just use my microplane or small holes on a box grater. It never felt like the right consistency. The blender is an a-ha. Plus seeing how easy this is, instantly added to my "what the f*ck am I going to eat tonight oh wait I guess pasta" list.

[@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.

[@sambino62]

🛁🛀🤰🏻🍝

[@lindsayjelercic]

🛁👩‍👦‍👦🧀

[@cynhanrahan4012]

I could not find the bathtub emoji, which is a tragedy, but I did find wine🍷so that makes it better. Thank you for the parm tip, it should help with my inconsistent emulsions!

[@dserdsing]

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

[@jaymathews356]

🛀🤣 I'll always be a pasta mommy!

[@melissao.219]

Does this count as diet food because it doesn’t have cream? 😂😂😂

[@ocelotxp]

Cream makes it bland AF.... it's such a mistake

[@jillyfae4895]

🛀 👩🧀🍝 This is and forever will be the way I make Alfredo. And Sat night Love Boat/ Fantasy Island was "it"!

[@iwanttotelltheworld1564]

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

[@Brooksie603]

🛀 👩 my go-to when I want a quick easy meal since I was around 12. So good and so simple.

[@Jordanbushieduh]

thats at least $18 of parm there

[@aeshnaroy9882]

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

[@TashJansson]

yes! mommy pasta, the gender representation we needed, with the right cheese consistency 😆

[@earlgreyknits1178]

🛀 🤰

[@2034niko]

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 💙

[@katykatmasters9707]

I would love to see a video with three recipes for sauce to go with ravioli. One could be to pair with seafood ravioli the second could be for a mushroom ravioli and the third could be for a chicken ravioli?

[@wooster71]

I was just about to comment and ask if microplaning works for pasta, and she answered it for me! That explains why it always sticks and clumps to the pan

[@OneOlive1]

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!

[@jeffharper6259]

Love Boat and Fantasy Island lol; I haven't thought about those programs for years. Also, the 'optimized Alfredo' looked amazing! Hello from Ontario, Canada.

[@FrankNguyen-TTT]

I’ve been using the 7 year old BA recipe Carla did for the last year and it makes me so excited to try a refreshed version!

[@foodisforeating6181]

I find it problematic when cooks / chefs use the term 'sick' when cooking. It makes me think of vomit. ... Good video though.

[@bellindagillis2549]

I’m Sorry … what bs about the a lot of grading of the Parmesan cheese..girl!!!

[@JohnFitzpatrickx]

Anyone ever make Alfredo with egg yoke combined into the pasta when taken off the heat? Maybe that’s not Alfredo but something else?

[@emmag.12]

so funny that i have always called this “butter noodles”!!! this was the first thing my mom ever let me cook when my parents deemed me trustworthy with the stove around 11. my mom used to let me make dinner once a week for the family & i always chose this meal. i still make it as an adult! yours looks much better than mine ever has because mine would get stringy bits and always gives me a hard time! can’t wait to try blender parm✨

[@idaslapter5987]

Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, and then Carol Burnett... that was my favorite TV line-up. (Shout out to father-in-law on the Rhoda MTM spin-off too!)

[@jeremymaccarthy1180]

🛀🫄

[@safiyab7145]

🛀🍝🫶🏾

[@nickgemerek6820]

Could you add like broccoli, or spinach, or some kind of meat? It looks great! Anytime I cook I always try to add some kind of veggie into the main dish or something to bulk it up a bit to last longer during the week. What do you think?

[@CarlaLalliMusic123]

when i was in college, I would cut green beans into 1/2 inch pieces and drop them into the pasta water when the pasta had about 2 mins left, and then did everything the same. delicious... not traditional but totally works. or have a salad after!

[@nickgemerek6820]

@@CarlaLalliMusic123 hahah got it!! Thanks!!!

[@virginiaf.5764]

Drop peas in the pasta water. Add sauteed mushrooms, yum. Diced ham or bacon, double yum.

[@nickgemerek6820]

@@virginiaf.5764 that sounds like a good idea too!!! Thanks!!

[@sdavis6666]

Not gonna lie -- when the opening bump for Cypress Grove was playing my brain heard "Cypress Hill". Still enjoying the mental image of Carla dancing around the kitchen cooking to 'Insane in the Brain' ....

[@DaneElshof]

🛁💆‍♀🧀🍝

[@breaker6683]

I like alfredo somewhat because it has like 3 things in it and you can call it al burro which just sounds fancy. Sometimes I omit salt altogether and use pecorini romano. Either way this is one of my favorite "fancy" pastas to make.

[@CapTVPrince]

🛀👩‍👦 we’re here!

[@jzakibe]

I love daddy pasta. Can’t wait to make mommy pasta.

[@JL-ol2wf]

🍝🧓🏻❤️

[@makynnasproule3078]

🛁🤰

[@cj_xx2001]

Alfredo is the way forward in life 🛀🏻👩‍👦

[@elishatea]

Thank you for this one! I've had bad experiences with hard cheese emulsification sauces before and have been turned off from trying them recently. But I feel like the simplicity of this makes it very approachable and something that I can make to get my confidence back up.

[@annapiteradevito7259]

How much pasta water and how much parm is used in this version?

[@CarlaLalliMusic123]

the recipe is linked

[@Maria-wy8gm]

The abrasive side of the box grater will also do the trick 😊

[@osvaldolopez7672]

I made instant ramen in college 👁️👄👁️

[@arisakathedappergoose4796]

psdys daddy here; made alfredo last night

[@Maiasatara]

You forgot CHIPS at 8pm. It was CHIPS, Love Boat and Fantasy Island. Best ever was when the same actor appeared in both LB and FI. Like Maureen McCormick.

[@rebeccabrandt2505]

Friday night ABC lineup, represent!

[@michele33s68]

I'll go in with u on the wheel of parm ❤❤❤❤

[@ohwowoh7281]

How to make blender parm: 1) Put parm into blender 2) Blend It took Chris Morocco 20 minutes to explain this.

[@cynthiablagg4507]

👩‍👦🛁🛁

[@user-lv1rr2dg1m]

is 'Pasta Mommy' my next tattoo? I hope this isn't a dumb question but whats the difference between this and cacio e pepe? Is it just percarino romano and the technique? I always thought Alfredo was an American originated pasta because of the cream and everything! (but obiviously not!)

[@neko_lcairw]

Making this soon… and then forever, ever after! Thank you for the tips, Carla!

[@noronahahaha]

What’s the diff between this and cacio e pepe

[@samezuoo]

🛀👩‍👦

[@deannasmith2837]

I finally tried the Humboldt Fog from Cypress Grove. You were NOT kidding with how good it it's!!!!

[@libbypetersen3523]

Man, Love Boat & Fantasy Island. True S-a-t-u-r-d-a-y night living. Alas, I lacked the mommy pasta at the time for the true trifecta.

[@merty5713]

I failed this the first time and made a clumpy one as well. But I quickly understood that everything I was working with was too hot. The second time I waited a couple of minutes while the butter was melting, then added the pasta water and stirred to emulsify. The pasta and pot got a little cooler while that was happening and the cheese didn't stick this time. It was a happy alfredo day!

[@hildamydear4481]

🛁 👧 🐎

[@gianpaolovignera7457]

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!

[@sebeckley]

People using pregrated cheese is probably a significant portion of the complaints she received.

[@seiyaaah]

🛀👩‍👧

[@seiyaaah]

real pasta mom not fake !!!

[@danielleryan196]

I love you, Carla, but my dear mother Carmella always used cream in her Alfredo and while not authentic, its amazing

[@crashlikewaves]

🛁 🍝 is that what I’m supposed to write 😅😂

[@silverleafmaple]

Always a joy! Ty from our fam :)

[@FrankPerkins]

What if we combined daddy with mommy pasta recipes into some sorry of Uber parent pasta recipe?

[@MichaelDavis-wx3pw]

For us it was Grilled Cheese and Popcorn on Love Boat/Fantasy Island night.

[@NikaRunsAndBakes]

🛁👩‍👧

[@mattkeysme]

This is something I've experienced a handful of times and it is such a bummer when it happens. And yeah, I've been using the micro plane, and most recently some dry parm! Excited to try this out again with your advice.

[@jojorabbitt]

🛀🤰🏻that’s not a pregnant belly rather a food baby full of mama pasta!!!😂

[@Setomi_tommy]

Real question, how do you feel about adding fresh lemon at the end? Inauthentic, yes but, damn good

[@Loke2112]

OK seriously Carla, I hadn’t thought about watching love boat and fantasy Island back to back in so many years but I sure as hell did it

[@nrok113]

so funny. within the last week I made alfredo with old parm grated on a microplane and the cheese clumped up! I used sodium citrate to get it emulsified and it was great.

[@eferg16]

Hot takes from a hot mama

[@SMM9797]

🛀🛀🛀🛀🛀🛀🛀

[@jessicaberger2619]

I would love for Carla to describe me as corpulent

[@rochellereilly]

🛁👩‍👧‍👦

[@troykaneshiro8626]

🍝 👨

[@Thunderbull]

My life was a lie.

[@scarlettcisneros3032]

🛀 👩‍👧💕

[@diablok1958]

🛀 👩‍👧

[@dolphinately]

The mother of all mommy pastas ❤

[@elsafischer3247]

I’m so glad that you made the point, that there is NO cream

[@terrabytes9208]

👩🛁

[@jptownley]

🛀👩🏼

[@KailaParnell]

🛁🤰🏽

[@SoBethSaid]

🛁🍷🍝

[@brokensaucer7223]

🛁😊💖

[@brandonbell5066]

🛁