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Gluten-Free Alfredo Sauce Recipe (with Rice)

February 23, 2016 9 Comments

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Gluten-Free Alfredo Sauce Recipe

We enjoy grain-free meals around here sometimes, but by no means do we eat that way every day and it's not my specialty.  So recently when my friend Nancy, who eats grain-free, was sick and said alfredo sounded good, I knew I needed to be a big girl and figure out a gluten-free alfredo sauce recipe!

Regular fettuccine alfredo, and any recipe with a creamy white sauce or cheese sauce as a base, is my specialty, but I always use my favorite thickening agent:  Einkorn flour, so instead I grabbed what I'd had good luck with in the past as a gluten-free sauce thickener:  arrowroot flour.  I also grabbed some turkey broth and turkey that I had in the freezer and went to work.  Thankfully it turned out really delicious!  I made a double batch so I could take one to our friends and feed our family the other one.

By the way, have you seen this video:  Special Diets Screwing Up Dinner Parties Everywhere!  Or this post:  Could THIS be the answer to the gluten sensitivity epidemic?!ditch-the-wheat

And also, I'm enjoying this new beautifully photographed paleo cookbook:  Ditch the Wheat.  I can't wait to dig in and try some of these recipes that look SO good like the chicken fingers (our son's favorite), or the onion fries, which are like onion rings only made with arrowroot flour.  I can't believe how much easier it is to eat paleo these days than it was even a couple of years ago!

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Gluten-Free Alfredo (with rice)

Author: Kelly the Kitchen Kop

Ingredients

  • About 4 cups turkey or chicken broth doesn't have to be exact
  • 1 1/2 cup of your favorite uncooked rice
  • 8 Tablespoons 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/2 onion chopped (or 1/2 teaspoon onion powder)
  • 1/4-1/2 teaspoon or more to your taste any of these optional seasonings: oregano, parsley, Italian seasonings, paprika
  • 1/2 cup arrowroot flour
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1 cup cream or milk
  • 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese not pre-shredded — those always have lots of icky preservatives in there
  • 2 cups cooked and chopped chicken or turkey
  • More Parmesan and/or mozzarella cheese for the top

Instructions

  • Start cooking the rice according to the timing on the package directions, but use the amounts of rice and broth above (you want extra liquid when you're done).
  • Melt butter in a medium sized saucepan.  If you're using fresh onion and garlic, add it to the butter and sauté.  In the meantime, stir the water into the arrowroot flour in a separate bowl, whisk well, and then whisk into the melted butter once the garlic and onion are lightly golden.  Add the milk slowly and keep whisking, it should thicken a little, but not as much as when you use flour in your white sauce (also called a “roux”).  Add cheese, sea salt and pepper, and dried garlic and onion (if you didn't use fresh) and any optional seasonings.  If it looks like it's curdling a little, don't fret, mine did that too, but it comes out great in the end.  Once it's mixed well, pull it off the heat and let set.
  • When the rice is soft, stir the white sauce into the rice and broth, and add cooked chicken or turkey.  Stir a few minutes and as it thickens a little, check the flavor.  Keep taste-testing (I use 2 spoons so I'm not double-dipping!) until it's so dreamy you can't stay out of it, that's how you know it's ready.  It may need more garlic powder, or more sea salt and pepper.  I added quite a bit more of all of those, but it's all just to your own taste.  If you want it a little creamier, add more cream or milk.
  • You can serve it like it is now, in bowls with extra parmesan on the top, OR to make it extra tasty, spoon it into a buttered 9×13 baking dish, top it with a bunch of mozzarella and more parmesan, and bake just until it's hot and the cheese is melted and a little golden on the top, and you've got yourself a HIT for dinner

Related posts:

  • More grain-free recipes
  • More main dish poultry recipes
  • Special Diets Screwing Up Dinner Parties Everywhere
  • Could THIS be the answer to the gluten sensitivity epidemic?!)
  • Ditch the Wheat cookbook
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  1. Tim Robinson says

    February 25, 2016 at 8:09 PM

    (Sarah) There are many times I wish gluten were the allergy in this house instead of dairy. One of those times are now when I see a recipe like this!

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    • Kelly the Kitchen Kop says

      February 26, 2016 at 4:11 PM

      Here you go, Sarah Tim Robinson! Just came across it this morning: https://tasty-yummies.com/2014/07/14/sweet-potato-noodles-sage-cream-sauce/

      Reply
    • Tim Robinson says

      February 26, 2016 at 5:46 PM

      (Sarah) Thanks for looking for us Kelly!

      Reply
  2. KitchenKop says

    February 23, 2016 at 7:26 PM

    Wow, I love this and will try it next time plus add a note to the post above, thanks gals!
    Kel

    Reply
  3. Robin says

    February 23, 2016 at 5:49 PM

    I was going to add basically the same comment, just that you are way overthinking this! No, it is not too thin, and that is how I have made mine, just butter, cream, parmigiana. This is how my fav Italian lady does it (Lidia Bastianich): https://www.mensjournal.com/food-drink/recipes/how-to-make-classic-fettucine-alfredo-20140508

    The idea is that the starches in the pasta help thicken it up as the sauce is coating it, but the starch in the rice would work the same way I am sure. The real key is that you cannot use pre-grated cheese for this (not that many of your readers would),, but the cheese just will not melt properly in the sauce.

    Simple, traditional and only 3 ingredients! 🙂

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  4. Lisa says

    February 23, 2016 at 10:23 AM

    Just use the classic recipe: butter, heavy cream and parmigiana – no thickener needed!

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    • Kelly the Kitchen Kop says

      February 23, 2016 at 2:02 PM

      I’ve never made mine like that, isn’t it too thin?

      Kelly

      Reply

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