Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, cajun shrimp pasta. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Cajun Shrimp Pasta is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Cajun Shrimp Pasta is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have cajun shrimp pasta using 16 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Cajun Shrimp Pasta:
- Take large shrimp, peeled, deveined and tails removed
- Prepare andouille sausage
- Make ready cajun seasoning
- Take red bell pepper, thinly sliced
- Make ready dried thyme
- Get smoked paprika
- Get brown sugar
- Prepare medium yellow onion, thinly sliced
- Prepare – 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- Prepare crushed tomatoes
- Make ready chicken broth
- Take Worcestershire sauce
- Take heavy cream
- Prepare fettuccine
- Take Kosher salt and fresh cracked black pepper
- Make ready Grated Parmesan and chopped parsley, for serving
Instructions to make Cajun Shrimp Pasta:
- Bring large pot of water to boil for pasta.
- Toss shrimp with 1 – 2 tablespoons of cajun seasoning and coat well - Heat a large skillet over medium high heat and drizzle bottom of pan with olive oil
- Add shrimp and cook for 2 minutes or so until starting to curl - Flip shrimp over and cook another minute or two and then remove to a plate and set aside
- Drizzle pan with a little more olive oil, add sausage and brown until nicely caramelized, about 4 – 5 minutes - Remove to plate, set aside
- Add pasta to salted boiling water and cook until al dente
- Lower heat to medium and add another good drizzle of olive oil to the pan, add the onion, red bell pepper, thyme, smoked paprika, 1 tablespoon 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
- Add the garlic and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds
- Add crushed tomatoes, chicken broth and Worcestershire sauce and bring to a simmer, stirring and scraping up any brown bits from bottom of pan, simmer a couple minutes
- Add cream and stir to combine, bring to a simmer - Once simmering, add cooked pasta and andouille sausage and stir to combine and heat through, 2 – 3 minutes
- Add more chicken broth or cream if it seems dry or you’the like more sauce
- Salt and pepper to taste and then lastly, add blackened shrimp and combine, or place shrimp on top of pasta
- Sprinkle with some more freshly cracked black pepper, grated Parmesan and chopped parsley
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