15 minutes creamy garlic parmesan wing sauce recipe is simple and easy to make at home. It will work as a taste twister with wings, pizza, salads, and best to serve as a side with baked and fried dishes.
Only a handful of ingredients are used to make this homemade restaurant-style sauce. Loaded with garlicky parmesan flavor with a texture of creamy white sauce perfect for family dinners.
What is Creamy Garlic Parmesan Sauce?
It’s a restaurant-quality dipping white sauce that is mostly drizzled on pizzas, roasted veggies, salads, and baked food. It’s sweet, sour and garlicky in taste loaded with the creamy, sharp and nutty flavor of parmesan cheese.
Super easy to make at home just by using few ingredients that you can easily find in your pantry.
Whenever I make chicken wings, I love to make this sauce or sometimes honey garlic sauce as it makes a perfect taste and perfect way to neutralize the flavor of hot wings.
Many of my friends asked; is it a type of Alfredo sauce? well, it seems similar to Alfredo in texture but the taste is entirely different which is creamy, milky, strongly nutty, and a little fruity.
I adapted this taste from Pizza hut creamy garlic parmesan wing sauce and tried to make the same at home. I am happy, it works to get the same flavor. Now I make it at home and serve it in a variety of ways as it’s easy, quick, and delicious to prepare within few minutes.
Why This Recipe Works
- To be very honest, it’s a finger-licking sauce that anyone would love to have without creating boundaries on ages.
- It’s a multi-purpose dipping sauce that serves with variety of recipes.
- It makes my life easy as I can store it for a week so no rush to make it on time.
- Best for busy mothers and dads to prepare a quick serving with dinner.
- It hardly takes 5 to 6 ingredients to get ready.
- I can say with confidence that it’s a restaurant-quality sauce that you can easily make at home with convenience.
- You don’t need to be a cook to make this recipe, even beginners can try this.
- If you make baked salmon, roasted chicken wings or homemade pizza. Don’t forget to make this sauce as it will double the taste.
Ingredients
Butter: I personally love to use butter with a splash of olive oil to accentuate the flavor and to add a rich creamy texture. It also helps to avoid the burnt aroma of butter.
Garlic: To add a strong garlicky flavor, nothing is best to use the freshly chopped and sauteed garlic clove. Alternatively, garlic powder can be used as seasoning agent.
White Flour: To add a creamy and rich thickness in sauce consistency, all-purpose flour will work like magic. First, create a roux and then add other ingredients to finalize.
Italian Seasoning: It’s a combination of ground oregano, rosemary and thyme. If you don’t have then use it separately as it will not make any difference in taste. It will add a sweet, fresh, earthy, and camphoraceous aroma in the sauce.
Salt + Pepper: Used kosher salt and freshly crushed black pepper to adjust the sauce flavor.
Milk: In this recipe, I used full-fat milk. On the other hand, heavy cream can also be used to add a desired thickness to the sauce.
Parmesan Cheese: It’s great to buy grated parmesan. I took the parmesan wedge but as I can’t grate it at home professionally, I asked the cheese counter guy to grate it as they have professional tools.
Parsley: Freshly chopped parsley is added as herb to add aroma to the sauce.
How to Make Creamy Garlic Parmesan Wing Sauce Recipe
In a heated pan, add a cube of butter with a splash of olive oil to avoid burning butter.
Then add chopped garlic clove and saute for few seconds. As the garlic starts to change color then add Italian seasoning and give it a good mix.
Add all purpose flour and quickly stir on low heat until the flour starts to change color.
Add milk on low heat and stir continuously to avoid lumps in the sauce.
Season the sauce with salt and black pepper.
As the sauce starts to get thick with desired consistency then add grated parmesan cheese and freshly chopped parsley.
Quickly stir for about 1 or 2 minutes on low heat to thicken the sauce.
Remove from heat and serve!
Tips & Variations
- Always heat the butter on low heat as it can burn if the temperature is high which will change the taste of the sauce.
- If you want a strong garlicky flavor in sauce then double the quantity. Make sure the garlic has strong pungent aroma. If you are using garlic powder, then use it while adding salt and pepper.
- Milk can be substituted with heavy cream.
- Monitor the quantity of flour as it will create a rich thickness in sauce. Manage the sauce consistency with milk. If it’s thick, add more milk to make it runny. If it’s runny then cook on low temperature to make it thick.
- Quickly stir the sauce after adding milk to the roux as it may create lumps in the sauce.
- If the sauce seems lumpy then blend it using hand blender to get the professional creamy look.
- Never cook the sauce for so long.
- To get the specific nutty flavor in the sauce, always roast the flour on low heat until it changes color.
- The sauce will become thicker after coming to room temperature so keep this in mind while managing the sauce consistency.
How To Store & Use
Right after cooking the sauce, you can shift it to serving bowl to set it nicely. It will remain on kitchen counter for 10 hours. After that, refrigerate it!
To store the leftover sauce, store in airtight glass container and refrigerator for 1 week.
This sauce is not recommended for freezing as it will release water and you need to cook it again which take more time than making the fresh sauce.
To use the sauce, reheat in sauce pan by adding little milk as it will be thick. Cook on extremely low heat to make it fresh and runny in consistency.
You can use this sauce in variety of ways. Best way is to make it ahead of time. If you are making for a party dinner, then you can make it a week before. It goes well with baked, roasted, pan fried chicken wings. I love to drizzle it on homemade pizza. You can also use it as pasta dressing.
Q & A
I love the pizza hut creamy garlic parmesan sauce for wings. If you want to make the copycat just use this recipe and switch the milk with heavy cream and you will have the same flavor.
Well, it's been prepared with butter and flour roux cooked with heavy cream and grated parmesan cheese. Season with salt, black pepper and Italian seasoning. Garnish with freshly chopped parsley.
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Creamy Garlic Parmesan Wing Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups Parmesan Cheese
- 1 tablespoon Butter
- 2 teaspoon Olive Oil
- 1 tablespoon White Flour
- 1 cup Milk Full Fat
- 1 clove garlic Chopped
- ⅓ teaspoon Salt
- ⅓ teaspoon Black Pepper
- 1 teaspoon Italian Seasoning
- 2 teaspoon Parsley Chopped
Instructions
- In a heated pan, add a cube of butter with a splash of olive oil to avoid burning butter.
- Then add chopped garlic clove and saute for few seconds. As the garlic starts to change color then add Italian seasoning and give it a good mix.
- Add all purpose flour and quickly stir on low heat until the flour starts to change color.
- Add milk on low heat and stir continuously to avoid lumps in the sauce.
- Season the sauce with salt and black pepper.
- As the sauce starts to get thick with desired consistency then add grated parmesan cheese and freshly chopped parsley.
- Quickly stir for about 1 or 2 minutes on low heat to thicken the sauce.
- Remove from heat and serve!
Notes
- Always heat the butter on low heat as it can burn if the temperature is high which will change the taste of the sauce.
- If you want a strong garlicky flavor in the sauce then double the quantity. Make sure the garlic has a strong pungent aroma.
- If you are using garlic powder, then use it while adding salt and pepper. Milk can be substituted with heavy cream.
- Monitor the quantity of flour as it will create a rich thickness in the sauce.
- Manage the sauce consistency with milk. If it’s thick, add more milk to make it runny. If it’s runny then cook on low temperature to make it thick.
- Quickly stir the sauce after adding milk to the roux as it may create lumps in the sauce. If the sauce seems lumpy then blend it using hand blender to get the professional creamy look.
- Never cook the sauce for so long. To get the specific nutty flavor in the sauce, always roast the flour on low heat until it changes color. The sauce will become thicker after coming to room temperature so keep this in mind while managing the sauce consistency.
Hinz
It will take 15 minutes to make this creamy sauce with garlic and parmesan cheese. Make it to enjoy chicken wings.