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Garlic parmesan sauce is a copycat recipe from the famous Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant. This creamy garlic sauce is best known as a wing sauce, but it’s perfect for pasta, on pizza, or used as a dipping sauce.
If you’ve ever been to Buffalo Wild Wings, you know how amazing the garlic parmesan sauce is. That’s why I knew I had to make it! I love making copycat recipes of my favorite sauces at home. That way I can enjoy them any time I want! Try my yum yum sauce, the famous Utah fry sauce, or everyone’s favorite boom boom sauce.
What Is Garlic Parmesan Sauce?
This delicious and creamy garlic parmesan sauce originated as a wing sauce from an American restaurant called Buffalo Wild Wings. It’s loaded with garlic, parmesan cheese, heavy cream, and Italian seasonings for added flavor. The sauce is perfect for coating chicken wings, as a sauce for pasta, or as a dip…the possibilities are endless.
This flavorful sauce is so incredible that the restaurant sells it in bottles for customers to buy and take home. I especially love this copycat recipe because not everybody has access to buy this sauce. But why buy it when you can make a big batch at home to enjoy any time you want? Use it as a dipping sauce for this easy wing recipe or as a pizza sauce with my quick pizza dough. It would also be delicious to dip these breadsticks in! I am telling you, this sauce is good on EVERYTHING!
Ingredients Needed
This list is short, sweet, and to the point. You don’t need anything complicated to make this amazing garlic parmesan sauce. In fact, you probably already have most of these ingredients in your kitchen already! See the recipe card at the bottom of the post for exact measurements.
- Butter: The melted butter adds a rich buttery flavor to the sauce.
- Garlic: Use fresh minced garlic. This the star of the show in this recipe.
- Italian Seasoning: I love the added flavors from the Italian herbs.
- Flour: Add the flour to make a roux. This helps thicken the sauce.
- Chicken Broth: I use chicken broth, but vegetable broth works as well. Broth helps thin out the sauce making it perfectly dippable and pourable.
- Heavy Cream: Adds to the creaminess of the sauce.
- Parmesan Cheese: The other key ingredient in this sauce.
- Kosher Salt and Pepper: Season to taste with salt and pepper. I love using cracked black pepper here!
How to Make Garlic Parmesan Sauce
I love this easy garlic parmesan sauce copycat recipe! It’s so tasty and perfect for almost any occasion. I share some of my favorite ways to serve and eat this sauce in the tip box because you have to know ALL the ways! It’s easy to make and so delicious. Here’s how to make this simple sauce.
- Melt the Butter: Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat.
- Add Garlic and Italian Seasonings: Add the garlic and Italian seasonings. Cook until fragrant for 1 minute.
- Whisk in the Flour: Whisk in the flour to form a paste.
- Stir in the Broth: Slowly pour in the broth, whisking constantly until smooth and combined.
- Simmer to Thicken: Bring to a low simmer over medium heat for about 2 minutes then it will thicken.
- Add Heavy Cream and Parmesan Cheese: Add the heavy cream and grated Parmesan cheese. Whisk and heat until the cheese melts and the sauce is smooth and creamy.
- Season With Salt and Pepper: Season to taste with salt and pepper and adjust to your liking.
- Enjoy: Enjoy over pasta, on top of pizza, or as a dipping sauce.
Ways to Use Garlic Parmesan Sauce
If this is your first time hearing of garlic parmesan sauce, then you may be wondering what to eat it with! Well lucky for you, because I’m going to tell you ways to enjoy this sauce and I bet you’ll love it! So don’t overthink it. I can’t wait for you to make this sauce recipe because it’s a good one!
- Chicken: Enjoying this sauce with wings is a given. But any kind of chicken with this sauce would be amazing. Fried chicken, grilled chicken, roasted chicken. Smother your favorite chicken recipe in this sauce.
- Pasta: This makes the best pasta sauce! Toss it with your favorite pasta noodles, ravioli, or tortellini.
- Fried Snacks and Sides: Fried snacks are the perfect companion for this sauce. Chicken strips, fried veggies like zucchini, and french fries of all varieties come to mind!
- Pizza, Bread, and Calzones: Garlic parmesan sauce is the perfect sauce to use in place of pizza sauce. Make white pizzas or chicken calzones. I also serve it as a dipping sauce with my homemade bread twists.
Storing Leftover Sauce
Storing leftover garlic parmesan sauce couldn’t be easier. Put it in an airtight container in the refrigerator because you’ll have yummy sauce to pull from all week. I love it so much!
- In the Refrigerator: You can store your leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days. The ingredients may separate as it sits, so give it a quick stir before you use it.
- To Reheat: Slowly is key! Use low temperatures and stir often. If it starts to separate, then slowly whisk it back together over low heat on the stovetop. It is best not to microwave this sauce. It becomes more oily and separates just as easily, if not more.
More Garlic Parmesan Inspired Recipes
Garlic parmesan flavored anything is basically the world’s best combination invented. The two ingredients together make magic in the kitchen. I can’t wait for you to try more of my garlic parmesan inspired recipes. Here are some of my favorites!
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Garlic Parmesan Sauce
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup butter
- 3 cloves garlic, finely minced
- 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1 1/2 cups chicken broth, or vegetable broth
- 3/4 cup heavy cream
- 1 cup Parmesan cheese, grated
- Kosher salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat.
- Add the garlic and Italian seasonings. Cook until fragrant for 1 minute.
- Whisk in the flour to form a paste.
- Slowly pour in the broth, whisking constantly until smooth and combined.
- Bring to a low simmer over medium heat for about 2 minutes or until it thickens.
- Add the heavy cream and grated Parmesan cheese. Whisk and heat until the cheese melts and the sauce is smooth and creamy.
- Season to taste with salt and pepper and adjust to your liking.
- Enjoy over pasta, on top of pizza, or as a dipping sauce.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
The sauce from the jar is super salty… how is the salt content in this? Thanks!
Hi Chris, thanks for the question. This recipe makes about 8 servings and each serving has about 400mg of sodium.
This recipe was good, however it did NOT taste like the Buffalo Wild Wings GP sauce at ALL. It also didn’t work very well for tossing wings because it’s so thick, but it would make a great dipping sauce. Thanks for sharing this recipe!
Amazing! I made it as directed with the exception of the whole cream, I used table cream. I added this to your slow cooker pulled chicken recipe and added spinach filled tortellini. Wow! I will make this again and again. Seafood would be great with this too!
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I so wanted to make this Garlic Parm sauce, but can’t use this recipe because it takes too long to load the video and recipe and then the adds stop in mid stream. As soon as the recipe finally loads, another add pops up and stops mid stream again. This is really all about adds and getting to buy garbage that you don’t need. Sorry charlie.. think of a better way to advertise your recipes instead of being greedy for more money.
Hi Kellie, the ads help me to continue bringing readers more content. I’m always looking to optimize, so thank you for the feedback. I hope you’ll still give the garlic parmesan sauce a try!
Can you use grated parm from the bottle
You can, but it has a lot of additives/preservatives added so it might not melt down as smoothly.
My comment was confusing. How do you think this sauce will be with adding shrimp? I will be serving it pasta.
Now do you think this sauce will do with adding shrimp? a I won’t be serving with pasta.
Is the garlic parm sauce to toss the chicken wings (like you would a Buffalo sauce) or a dipping sauce like blue cheese?
It’s based off of the wing sauce from Buffalo Wild Wings, but you could use it for both!
Love your sauces
So excited to try this recipe! I use the store bought buffalo wild wing garlic parmesan on my eggs and avocado for breakfast every morning.
This garlic parmesan sauce looks amazing….can it be frozen?
Yes! You can freeze it for a couple months in an airtight bag. Just thaw overnight when you’re ready to use it and then reheat as normal.
Very good
Amazing
Following the amounts of ingredients in this recipe, what is the yield? (The Crockpot Parmesan Garlic Chicken Pasta recipe needs 12 oz of this sauce, so I don’t want to make way too much)
This makes about 2.5 cups of sauce.
How long does this last in the fridge
It will last up to 5 days in an airtight container!
It says 5 days.
Great recipe for a simple bechamel based sauce. I would suggest cooking the flour butter roux mixture for a few minutes until the raw flour smell goes away otherwise your sauce will taste like a block of flour if you immediately add the stock.