The Best Olive Garden Alfredo Sauce Dupe Is This Store-Bought Brand

If you love Olive Garden, specifically Olive Garden alfredo sauce, Reddit has a dupe for you, courtesy of this thread. A Sporked-approved Olive Garden alfredo dupe, no less. 

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Giovanni Rana Alfredo Sauce is a dead ringer for Olive Garden’s signature alfredo.

You know that sharp, umami, buttery quality you get from Olive Garden’s sauce? That’s here in Rana, too. It uses both Parmigiano Reggiano and Pecorino Romano cheeses for that extra pungent tang. The texture is so creamy, buttery, and rich. 

Rana has been at the top of our best store-bought alfredo sauce ranking for several years, so we say this with our full chest: Olive Garden alfredo dupe or not, this is the stuff you should be buying when you don’t feel like making your own sauce at home. 

But the other consensus from that very Reddit thread? You really should be making your own alfredo sauce at home.

Homemade alfredo sauce is easy, cheap, and typically tastes better than anything out of a jar. Our editor-in-chief Justine Sterling has been saying this from day one: Store-bought alfredo may be convenient, but all you need is butter, parmesan, and cream to do it yourself. If you want it to thicken up nicely, don’t forget a splash of starchy pasta water. I like to throw in cajun seasoning to keep things interesting. (What can I say, my life was forever changed by Patti LaBelle’s Cajun Style Fettuccine Alfredo from our frozen fettuccine alfredo taste test. I still dream about that stuff.) 

And if you really want to make an exact replica of Olive Garden’s alfredo sauce, here’s some more investigative journalism for you: We found the recipe. (Allegedly.) 

This recipe from JessieGirl claims to be from an Olive Garden general manager. And the key to it is something called a powdered “white sauce base mix,” which she found at a restaurant supply store. You can make your own version using these two recipe suggestions from Redditors: Betty Crocker and MySpruceEats. Or you can find a similar store-bought powdered roux (like Knorr’s White Roux) that might work as a substitute. 

I mean, it feels like a lot of work when Rana exists, but I guess it’s a flex to say that you know how to make Olive Garden’s alfredo sauce from scratch. You do you!!