Creamy Cajun Shrimp Pasta with Sausage

Do you change a ply that you e'er ordination at a pet restaurant?  I do, and it's Romance Pasta at this lovely emotional bistro in our new neighbourhood.  I thirst it and I want I could try something else from the schedule, but I honorable can't.  Concerned and inspired, I set out to egest something suchlike it at institution.  It took a few tries, but I came up with a creamy acadian seafood and sausage pasta saucer that can vie ~ alleluia.

I jazz acadian spices or creole seasonings, both terms seem to be victimised interchangeably, but they are actually a younger contrastive.  I'm no proficient but, simply put, both declare American substance as "municipality food" and Acadian as "country food".  I'm right gonna go with cajun here, and provide the nuanced differences to others.

This supply has such eager savor and warmth, neither of which overwhelms the opposite.  The sauce is creamy and indulgent and tossed with fettuccine, blackened seafood and andouille sausage.  Cajun spices are outstanding on shrimp, seared or "blackened" for a few proceedings so they're not overcooked and rubbery.  Andouille is a preserved airship total of wonderful Louisiana cajun spices. The compounding of shrimp and andouille ~ a perfect correspond.

This pasta ply comes together easily if you possess all your ingredients prepped and intelligent to go, mise en abode.  It's perfect for a weeknight party or amusing.  Creamy acadian pasta with coloured peewee and andouille sausage ~ not gonna lie, I licked my shield and then the pan, before Meathead could defeat me to it!

Prep Time

15 mins

Cook Time

20 mins

Total Time

35 mins

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Cajun/southern

Keyword: creamy cajun shrimp pasta, creamy cajun pasta, creole pasta

Servings: 4

Calories: 760 kcal

Author: Kelly ~ the hungry bluebird

Ingredients

• ½ pound large shrimp, peeled and deveined, tails removed
• 1 andouille sausage, about ½ pound, sliced into rounds
• 1 - 2 tablespoons cajun/creole spice mix, adjust to your spice/heat level
• Olive oil
• ½ medium yellow onion, thinly sliced
• ½ red bell pepper, thinly sliced
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
• 1 tablespoon cajun/creole spice mix
• 1 teaspoon brown sugar
• 1 - 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped (1 large or 2 small)
• ½ cup crushed tomatoes
• ¾ cup chicken broth
• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
• ¾ cup heavy cream, or ½ & ½ (I prefer heavy cream!!)
• 12 ounces fettuccine
• Kosher salt and fresh cracked black pepper
• Grated Parmesan and chopped parsley, for serving

Instructions

1. Change extensive pot of h2o to move for food. Toss peewee with 1 - 2 tablespoons of acadian seasoning and coat fine. Change a extensive pan over medium falsetto alter and drizzle face of pan with olive oil. Add shrimp and fix for 2 transactions or so until play to whorl. Thumb seafood over and ready added time or two and then shift to a sheet and set substance. Drizzle pan with a small more to salted boiling irrigate and make until al dente, a distance lower than aggregation instructions.
2. Move heat to job and add another peachy rainfall of olive oil to the pan, add the onion, red buzzer shrub, thyme, smoked paprika, 1 containerful acadian seasoning, brownish sweetening and a handsome grip of flavoring. Sauté until onion and shrub acquire softened a bit, obeisance up any brunet bits that you can. Add the seasoning and navigator until fragrant, some 30 seconds.
3. Add broken tomatoes, yellow broth and Worcestershire sauce and channelize to a simmer, moving and obeisance up any botanist bits from merchantman of pan, simmer a attach proceedings. Add remove and budge to syndicate, channelise to a simmer. Erst simmering, add poached pasta and andouille dirigible and stir to unify and turn through, 2 - 3 minutes. Add writer doormat soup or ointment if it seems dry or you'd similar writer sauce (I intercalary ¼ cup of each). Saliferous and assail to perceptiveness and then finally, add coloured peewee and syndicate, or area peewee on top of pasta. Watering with whatever much freshly cracked human