Pasta With Cajun Cream Sauce

"This is not for the diet conscious! This is a great side for chicken or shrimp, and served with steamed broccoli. Sub chicken broth for the wine and bouillon, ir desired."
 
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Ready In:
35mins
Ingredients:
14
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • In large stockpot, boil water for pasta.
  • In a large sauté pan, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add onions and saute for 2 minutes. Add garlic, saute additional 1 minute.
  • Stir chicken bouillon into white wine and add to pan.
  • Using a wooden spoon, scrape any brown bits off the bottom of the pan. Let the wine reduce to half – about 3 minutes.
  • In the meantime, cook your pasta to the al dente stage.
  • Add cajun seasoning, paprika, salt, pepper, and tomato paste to the sauce. Stir.
  • Add heavy cream. When the cream mixture is almost bubbling, turn heat to low. Let the crème mixture reduce to half – about 5 minutes.
  • Drain the pasta very well – add pasta to the crème sauce.
  • Toss with freshly chopped parsley and Parmesan.
  • Serve.

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Reviews

  1. Amazing! We added 1/2 cup shredded Parmigiana Cheese to the sauce before adding the pasta. De-lish!
     
    • Review photo by Christie M.
  2. Cant go wrong with this recipe, excellent, we loved it, could have this every night! I used linguini as per my husbands preference, but confess that I think a short pasta, penne or similar, would be a better choice. You could add shrimp or bacon or ... lots of stuff -- but it was great as was! Thank you, made for I Recommend tag game.
     
  3. Delicious! I used 1c plain full fat yogurt & 1c half & half because I found out too late that I was out of cream! Grr. It worked wonderfully! Be careful using both cajun seasoning & salt - my seasoning mix has salt in it & if I had used both, it would be too salty. Plus I used chicken broth (has salt) and the parm has salt. So I didn't add salt. ;) We loved this & will definitely make it again. Made for ZWT9 for Mike & the Appliance Killers!
     
  4. This recipe was the BOMB!! I added shrimp, Cajun andoulie sausage and red bell pepper to the sauce and used penne pasta. It was sooo good! I was requested by my family to make this again as a dish for the superbowl next Sunday!!
     
  5. I recently went to a nice restaurant and ordered the seafood cajun pasta. It looked delicious, but I was so unimpressed with the flavor. I had to add lots of salt and pepper to make it taste better. I decided that I would try to make my own and found this recipe for the sauce. My family loved it! I added crawfish, shrimp, sausage, and crab meat with a penne pasta. I will definitely be making this sauce again. Thanks for sharing!
     
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Tweaks

  1. I did not use white wine and substituted chicken stock. Delicious! for a more hearty meal, more vegetables such as garden fresh green beans and zucchini to the mix. I also added 1/2 cup of shredded Parmesan cheese. For extra protein and added flavor I used andouille sausage. My next batch I will add salmon.
     
  2. Add Andouille sausage
     
  3. just added about 2 tbls. off butter, to cook the chicken onion and garlic, delicious.
     

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