How to thin Chicken Alfredo sauce?

I wanted to try something new with chicken breasts, came across Chicken Alfredo which seems pretty simple. However, the two times I've cooked Chicken Alfredo the sauce seems to come out rather thick and the pasta is glue-ey, but still very much edible.

I'd like to make the sauce thinner so that the pasta isn't sticking together as much. First thought that comes to mind is cook the sauce for less, but in all honesty it does look too watery to leave.

Here's my steps to making the sauce:

Medium/low heat
2 Tbsp butter
3 Finely chopped medium-sized garlic cloves. Wait until start of browning
Add 1 1/2 Tbsp plain flour
Keep stirring until garlic and flour become incorporated
Repeat steps 4 and 5
Immediately pour up to a glass of milk
Keep stirring and gradually add another glass of milk until sauce thickens
Keep stirring and finally turn off heat
Place cooked diced chicken into the pasta pan and stir.

I realise how thick the sauce gets in the last step, which may be due to the drop in pressure from multi-tasking :P. Can someone share some wisdom about sauce making, or even specifically Chicken Alfredo sauce making?

Best Answer

The thickening agent in your recipe is flour. If you want to have thinner sauce then you need to add less flour when cooking the garlic. If a total of 6 to 7.5 Tbsp of flour is too much then maybe you should try adding a total of 4 Tbsp.

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How do you thin down alfredo sauce?

Well, to thin out alfredo sauce, you can add milk. Otherwise, you can use pasta water or broth. But no matter which one you choose, make sure you bring the thinner to a suitable temperature. And mix it with the sauce that is at the same temperature.

How do you make chicken Alfredo less thick?

Reduce Heavy Cream Another way to thicken alfredo sauce is by further reducing the heavy cream during the cooking process, but before you add the cheese. "Generally, heavy cream is reduced by half to make an alfredo sauce.

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