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Strings Restaurant Alfredo Sauce

A creamy sauce made with milk, garlic salt, butter, arrowroot, mozzarella, and seasonings.

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Why it works: Garlic and arrowroot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 51 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Strings Restaurant Alfredo Sauce

Time2 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Combine all ingredients except the starch, cheese, and water, put into a saucepan, and bring to a boil.

  2. Blend arrowroot and cold water, then add slowly to the sauce, stirring constantly.

  3. Let sauce simmer for 2 minutes.

Finish

  1. Remove from heat.

  2. Slowly add and blend in the cheese.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

353Calories
22 gProtein
24 gFat
15 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Arrowrootnot in our table0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Garlic + arrowroottop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Milk + cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Milk + arrowroottop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together817 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  4. Garlic + cheesetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,738 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Arrowroot + white peppertop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together44 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Arrowroot starch
Thickens the milk mixture into a smooth, creamy sauce as it heats.
Non-fat milk
Forms the liquid base of the sauce.
Shredded non-fat mozzarella
Melts into the sauce, adding body and a cheesy flavor.

The step that matters

Adding the arrowroot slurry. Starch must be fully blended with cold water first and stirred into the hot sauce constantly; added dry or in lumps, it clumps and leaves the sauce uneven instead of smoothly thickened.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, garlic, arrowroot, cheese):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, garlic, arrowroot, cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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