alfredo
adj.adj. a rich, white pasta sauce made with butter, cream, and Parmesan cheese. You usually see it served with long, flat noodles like fettuccine.
adj. referring to a pasta sauce composed of butter, heavy cream, and Parmesan cheese. Typically used as a postpositive modifier or as part of a compound noun phrase.
I ordered the fettuccine alfredo for dinner.
The chef prepared a classic alfredo sauce by slowly melting butter and whisking in freshly grated cheese until smooth.
While traditional Italian recipes often rely on the emulsion of pasta water and butter, the Americanized alfredo version typically incorporates heavy cream to achieve its signature thick and velvety texture.
From Alfredo alla Scrofa, an Italian restaurant in Rome where the pasta dish fettuccine Alfredo was originally served, named after its founder Alfredo Di Lelio. Doublet of Alfred.
Often appears immediately after the noun it modifies, particularly 'fettuccine' or 'chicken'.