Recipe: Olive Garden's Straw and Hay (includes recipe for Alfredo Sauce)

Here is your Alfredo Sauce recipe!!!
Source: Olive Garden
Homemade, creamy, delicious Alfredo sauce...a guest favorite!

OLIVE GARDEN'S FETTUCCINE ALFREDO
Servings: 4

In celebration of our new irresistible Alfredo dishes - Chicken & Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo and Steak Gorgonzola-Alfredo - we're sharing a traditional Alfredo recipe with you called Straw and Hay - pronounced "Paglia e Fieno" in Italian. This colorful and unique dish is made using a combination of spinach and traditional fettuccine tossed in a rich, creamy Alfredo sauce with Italian prosciutto ham, fresh garlic and sweet green peas. This classic recipe is easy to make and sure to be a guest favorite!

STRAW & HAY

PASTA:
1/2 lb(s) Spinach Fettuccine
1/2 lb(s) Fettuccine
ALFREDO SAUCE:
1 1/2 cup(s) White Milk
1 1/2 cup(s) Heavy Cream
1/2 cup(s) Imported Parmesan Cheese, grated
1/2 cup(s) Imported Romano Cheese, grated
6 Egg yolks, fresh jumbo eggs
Salt and black pepper
FINAL ASSEMBLY:
2 tsp Unsalted Butter
2 tsp Fresh Garlic, finely chopped
1/4 lb(s) Proscuitto Ham, sliced very thin then dice medium
1/2 lb(s) Fettuccine, cooked al dente
1/2 lb(s) Spinach Fettuccine, cooked al dente
1/2 cup(s) Green peas, thawed
3 cup(s) Alfredo sauce, well stirred PASTA:
Cook Spinach Fettuccine and fettuccine according to package directions.

ALFREDO SAUCE:
Heat the milk and cream in a heavy bottom saucepan until it comes to a simmer.
Slowly whip in all the cheese, then remove from heat.

In a separate bowl, place the egg yolks and slowly whip in a portion of the hot milk and cream mixture.

Slowly add the egg yolk mixture back into the remaining cream mixture.
(This will increase the temperature of the egg yolks which is called tempering).

Season to taste with the salt and fresh cracked black pepper.
Refrigerate until needed.

FINAL ASSEMBLY:
Place a large skillet on medium heat.
Add butter, garlic, herbs and proscuitto and cook until the ingredients are hot.

Add the pasta and the Alfredo Sauce and stir until the sauce thicken to the desired consistency.

Toss in the peas and stir and season with salt and pepper.
Serve immediately.