Lite Alfredo Sauce – no-one will ever guess this is light!! SO good! Better than any restaurant. Add chicken for a complete meal! Milk, ricotta cheese, greek yogurt, onion, garlic, salt, nutmeg, olive oil, flour, parmesan cheese and pasta. Can make and store in the refrigerator for up to a week! Great weeknight meal!!

This recipe from Cuisine at Home is a great guilt-free alfredo sauce.  We absolutely loved this version.  I would have never guessed this was low cal/low fat.  It is really creamy and full of flavor.  It is also extremely easy to make.  The base of the sauce can be prepared up to a week in advance.  You could blend it up on Sunday and serve it any night of the week.  This is the only alfredo sauce I will make from now on.  We served this sauce with some simple grilled garlic chicken.  It was a fantastic meal!

Give this a try for Valentines Day – it will help balance out all the sweet treats that you might happen to indulge in.

Yield: serves 4Author: Plain ChickenPrint Recipe

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Lite Alfredo Sauce

prep time: 5 MINScook time: 15 MINStotal time: 20 mins

Lite Alfredo Sauce – no-one will ever guess this is light!! SO good! Better than any restaurant. Add chicken for a complete meal! Milk, ricotta cheese, greek yogurt, onion, garlic, salt, nutmeg, olive oil, flour, parmesan cheese and pasta. Can make and store in the refrigerator for up to a week! Great weeknight meal!!

ingredients:

• 2 cups 1% or skim milk
• 1 cup part-skim ricotta cheese
• 2/3 cup 2% Greek yogurt
• 2 Tbsp dried minced onion flakes
• 2 Tbsp minced garlic
• 1 tsp kosher salt
• ½ tsp ground nutmeg
• ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
• ¼ cup all-purpose flour
• ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese
• black pepper
• reserved pasta water
• 1 lb pasta, cooked and drained

instructions:

1. Blend milk, ricotta, yogurt, onion, garlic, salt and nutmeg in a blender or food processor until smooth. At this point, the mixture may be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a week.
2. Heat oil in large saute pan over medium heat.  Whisk in flour until smooth.  Whisk in blended mixture until smooth.  Simmer sauce until it thickens, about 8 minutes.  Stir in Parmesan cheese and pepper.  If the sauce gets too thick, thin it out with a little pasta water.  Stir in cooked pasta.

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