Creamy Pasta Jumbalaya

Ingredients

Meat choices:

Andouille Sausage

Shrimp

Chicken

As a vegetarian: 

There is no substitute for the Andouille Sausage, but try to get a spicy veggie sausage.

For the chicken you can find many substitutes.

As for the shrimp, sorry there just isn't an option that I've found.

Pasta:

Fettuccine or linguine

Sauce:

1 qt. Cream

1/4 pound (1 stick) Butter (you can use garlic butter or olive oil as an alternative)

1 Tbsp minced Garlic (alternatively you can use just garlic powder) 

Garlic powder (even with the minced garlic, yes... wait you'll see)

1 tsp Cayenne Pepper

1 tsp Paprika

Salt (to taste)

Black Pepper (to taste)

Steps

Pasta

Boil water for pasta 

Cook pasta according to box directions

Prepare the meats

Cut chicken into small 1/2 x 1 inch pieces

Cook chicken (we seasoned with salt, pepper, onion powder and garlic powder)

Cut sausage into 1/4 inch disks

Brown sausage

Shrimp thaw and season (we used pre-cooked shrimp & seasoned to taste) we still heat up the shrimp with the seasonings in the pan before adding it to the sauce

Creamy Sauce

Put butter in sauce pan and sauté garlic

Add cream and stir

Add dry seasons and stir

Bring sauce on medium heat to a boil (stir often)

Adjust seasoning to taste (this is where the garlic powder comes in... once you've sautéed the garlic you it isn't the same to just add more minced garlic if you want a stronger, spicier flavor - the garlic powder does just that)

Simmer sauce and add meat for the time it takes the pasta to cook (about 10-15 minutes)

If you feel the sauce needs to cook down more, do so.

When pasta is ready ladle meat sauce over pasta.

Enjoy!

Nutritional information... don't ask.  If you knew, you probably wouldn't eat it. :)

Great with bread to dip in sauce - as if there weren't enough calories in this to begin with. :)