How do you make a garlic sauce for a pasta dish? It is easy! Just four ingredients and 8 minutes. The garlic sauce does not have an overwhelming garlic flavor but it can if you like! This is a thick sauce but it is not rich and can be used on pasta, vegetables, beef, pork, chicken, or whatever you like. You can make a batch and keep it in the fridge for when you need it!
The garlic in the garlic cream sauce
The garlic cream sauce recipe calls for two cloves of garlic. There are other options you have with the garlic. First is to add more! Another option is to add roasted garlic. Roasted garlic will bring a nice finish to the garlic cream sauce. Roasting garlic is easy. My roasted garlic recipe takes about an hour but you can do a big batch to have extra on hand. You will need about two tablespoons of roasted garlic for the recipe. Adding the roasted garlic is not necessary. It is worth it if you have the time.
Putting the garlic sauce together
Here is how to get the sauce together. Start by pouring the cream into a medium sized skillet. Next, add the sea salt, pepper, and diced garlic. Pressing the garlic works just fine if you want to do that. Stirring the cream mixture occasionally until it gets to about 130 degrees F or hot to the touch. This should take about 3 minutes. Next, add the two tablespoons of cornstarch to a bowl or small glass. Then add the water and mix well. While stirring the cream, add the cornstarch mixture. Keep stirring the sauce over a medium to medium high heat. Don’t walk away or stop stirring because the cornstarch will clump up. After about 5 minutes the mixture will thicken to the point where it coats the back of a spoon.
Leave it on the heat if you want it thicker. When it gets to the desired thickness, take the pan off of the heat. All done!
Ideas for the garlic sauce
Pasta sauce is always the first that comes to mind when making this sauce. We have tried it on roasted veggies and chicken. Usually with a tray bake or sheet pan bake. Tray bakes are easy to slap together with whatever you have around. Roast the veggies and/or meats. Then dish them up and add the sauce.
I have not tried the sauce with any nut milks. However, considering the consistency of 2% milk I think they will work just fine.
Try my pasta recipe to make with the garlic cream sauce! You can also use this as a dip for my pepperoni bread!
Garlic Cream Sauce
Ingredients
- 2 garlic cloves finely diced or passed through a garlic press
- 2 cups whipping cream
- 1/2 teaspoon of sea salt
- ½ teaspoon of cracked black pepper
- 2 tablespoons of cornstarch
- ¼ cup of room temperature water
Instructions
- Pour the cream into a medium sized skillet over medium-high heat.
- Next, add the sea salt, pepper, and diced garlic.
- Stirring the cream mixture occasionally until it gets hot to the touch.
- Next, add the two tablespoons of cornstarch to a bowl or small glass. Then add the water and mix well. While stirring the cream mixture, add the cornstarch mixture. Keep stirring the sauce over a medium to medium high heat. Don’t walk away or stop stirring because the cornstarch will clump up.
- After about 5 minutes or less the mixture will thicken to the point where it coats the back of a spoon. Leave it on the heat if you want it thicker. When it gets to the desired thickness, take the pan off of the heat.
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