Fettuccine with andouille creole cream sauce. Big cajun flavour. Sometimes you just don’t have time to cook. 20 minutes to get dinner on the table. It doesn’t have to suck. Restaurants cook your dinner quickly. You can too.
Have the ingredients on hand. Chop a couple red peppers. Crush some garlic. Boil some pasta. That’s about it. Fry it up, toss the pasta in the cream sauce and serve.
In a little more time than it takes to make a peanut butter sandwich, dinner is on the table. Fettuccine with creole andouille cream sauce is better than a peanut butter sandwich though. I promise.
fettuccine with andouille creole cream sauce
Ingredients
- 2-3 andouille sausages - you can substitute kielbasa but it’s not the same
- 2 red bell peppers chopped
- 1/2 jalapeño finely minced
- 1 clove garlic
- 2 tsp creole seasoning
- 1 Tbsp tomato paste mixed with 2 Tbsp water
- 2 Tbsp butter
- 1 cup heavy cream (35% milk fat)
- 12 oz fettuccine
- salt to taste - start with 1/2 tsp
Instructions
- Cook the fettuccine in well salted water about one minute less than the directions specify. You can cook the pasta while you make the sauce.
- Melt the butter in a skillet large enough to hold the sauce and pasta.
- Add the sausage and red pepper and cook until the sausage is brown and the pepper is soft, around 3-4 minutes
- Mix in the garlic, jalapeño and creole seasoning. Cook about one minute. Don’t let the spices burn.
- Add the tomato paste, stir and cook another minute.
- Stir in the cream and bring to a simmer.
- Taste and adjust the salt before you add the pasta.
- Add the cooked pasta, stir to combine and cook about 2 minutes.
- Serve and enjoy.
Notes
Nutrition
This Thai chicken buddha bowl makes a great weeknight dinner. Or you can grill the chicken ahead and serve it cold. Makes a great lunch. The spicy miso grilled chicken adds a bit of Korean spice to the mix.
The bright Thai flavours from the sauce bring it all together. It’s well balanced. Sweet, salty, spicy, sour. All the southeast Asian flavours are represented. It’s just tasty.
Thai chicken buddha bowls are great any night
This is a nice weeknight dinner. Perfect any time but really good on those hot summer nights.
The miso chicken has a Japanese meets Korean thing going on. More like Japanese slams into Korean maybe. But miso and gochujang work really well together. It’s worth trying that on it’s own some time.
The real star here is the Thai dipping sauce. Once you try it you will use it. A lot. I do. It’s a regular staple in my fridge. Cheating almost. Put it on anything. It just works.
It’s awesome with grilled chicken. Or on steak. Like Thai chimichurri sauce. Dip for chicken wings. Sauce for fish. In a Thai meets Vietnam banh mi sandwich. Getting the picture? It’s seriously addictive stuff.
