Healthy Dinner Kids Want to Eat
- What: Easy Alfredo Sauce Recipe
- When: 12 months and up
- Why: Simple, fast, delicious
- Where: Amazon
One thing all three of my kids can agree on: they like pasta. While finding a meal option everyone will eat proves challenging, we end up eating a lot of pasta dishes. My kids particularly love Alfredo sauce, also known as white sauce in our house.
I got tired of paying lots of money for small jars of sauce that didn’t feed our family of five. I also didn’t love the high fat and low nutritional content of most store bought varieties. Once I went looking, I found a great recipe on 40aprons.com that uses cottage cheese to provide a lower fat, higher protein alternative. Best of all, my kids prefer it to the jars and packets and ask for it regularly.
Simple ingredients turn into a tasty sauce.
You’ll need low fat cottage cheese, grated parmesan cheese, skim milk, cornstarch, salt, pepper, garlic, oregano, and basil. Those nine simple ingredients make a flavorful yet popular sauce to top any sort of pasta, which takes less time than going to the store. In only 15 minutes, you can make a batch for yourself.
- 1 cup skim milk
- ½ cup lowfat cottage cheese
- 1 tbs cornstarch
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp pepper
- ¼ tsp garlic powder
- ½ cup grated Parmesan or Romano
- Dried basil to taste
- Dried oregano to taste
Add all the ingredients and blend until smooth. Pour mixture into a small saucepan. Cook over medium low heat until heated throughout and smooth. Let cook on low heat for five minutes, stirring occasionally. Let the finished sauce sit for a few minutes, with or without the pasta added, to thicken. This recipe makes enough sauce about half a bag or box of pasta. If you want to use fewer dishes, blend all the ingredients with an immersion blender in the pot.
I use an immersion blender to mix the ingredients.
I like to add broccoli, chicken, or both, but it works well with just about anything. I usually make a double batch for our family of five with three kids under ten. It isn’t unusual for us to eat the entire bigger batch, though we sometimes have a bit remaining. We even mix leftover bits of Alfredo sauce with tomato sauce to make a pink sauce as well.
