Recipe: Perfect Creamy Cajun Pasta

Creamy Cajun Pasta. Place chicken and Cajun seasoning in a bowl and toss to coat. Reduce heat add green onion, heavy cream, tomatoes, basil, salt, garlic powder, black pepper and heat through. Pour over hot linguine and toss with Parmesan cheese.

Melt butter in a large heavy skillet over medium heat. Season chicken with Cajun seasoning and grill until cooked through. Boil pasta until al dente, and reserve some of the cooking liquid before draining. You can have Creamy Cajun Pasta using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Creamy Cajun Pasta

1. Prepare of sausage or andouille.
2. It's of boneless skinless chicken.
3. It's of green bell pepper.
4. Prepare of red bell pepper.
5. Prepare of onion.
6. You need of linguine pasta.
7. It's of heavy cream.
8. It's of grated parmesan cheese.
9. It's of vegetable oil.
10. Prepare of Cajun seasoning.
11. It's of heaping tbs minced garlic.
12. Prepare of small package sliced fresh mushrooms.
13. It's of chicken broth.

Heat butter in a saucepan, then add garlic and flour and whisk. Slowly pour in milk and Cajun seasoning, to taste. In a large frying pan, heat the oil on a medium heat. Add the diced chicken breasts, pre chopped peppers, onions and garlic and cook until chicken is cooked through and the peppers have softened.

Creamy Cajun Pasta instructions

1. Pour olive oil into the pot. Add diced chicken breast to the pot, cover with cajun seasoning, and stir until the chicken is evenly seasoned. Then, add sliced sausage and stir. Cook the meat on medium heat for 5-10 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through..
2. Once the meat is cooked, add in the garlic, onion, peppers, and mushrooms, and stir. Continue stirring for 3-5 minutes as the veggies cook down..
3. Add the dry pasta to the pot (if using long, thin noodles, break in half), then pour in the chicken broth. Stir until everything is well-mixed. Cover the pot and bring to a boil. Once boiling, keep covered bring the heat down to a simmer for 10 minutes (stirring every two minutes). If there still extra chicken broth, you can discard it, cook longer until the liquid evaporates, or add a little cornstarch to thicken the liquid..
4. Lastly, add heavy cream and parmesan and stir until your pasta is well blended. Garnish with green onions, more parmesan, a sprinkle of cajun seasoning (if you want some extra spice), and salt and pepper to taste. Enjoy!.
5. Tips: Dice and marinade my chicken breast over night in Dale's low sodium marinade. Use frozen onion peppers mix in a pinch..

Cook pasta as per instructions on the pack with a little salt. Add pasta to salted boiling water and cook until al dente. Lower heat to medium and add a bit more olive oil to the pan, add the onion, red bell pepper, Cajun seasoning, brown sugar, and a generous pinch of salt. Sauté until onion and pepper have softened a bit, scraping up any browned bits that you can. Bring large pot of water to boil for pasta.