Sausage Alfredo Pasta

This sausage alfredo pasta is an easy dinner meal that packs a lot into every bite. Made with minimal ingredients and effort you’d think this was a fancier dish, but the simplicity only helps to highlight the wonderful tastes.

I love simple pasta dishes and despite this one being made from scratch, it’s about as simple as you can get. We’re making our own alfredo sauce in this one pan cheesy sausage pasta meal.

This pasta recipe only takes minutes to prepare and from start, to finish you can have your meal on the table in 30 minutes or less. The longest part of that is simply cooking the pasta and if you’re in a hurry you can always precook the pasta, rinse in cold water (to stop the cooking process and remove excess starches), and then store it in a zipper topped baggie in the fridge until needed. Then stir into the sauce and cook until it’s heated again. See? Simple, fast, and easy!

When you think of alfredo pasta do you picture it with longer linguine noodles or with short noodles like penne? We’ll be using longer noodles for this recipe but shorter ones are fine to use too. Just cook them up per package instructions and drain the excess water. The only differences are visual.

While this alfredo sauce may not be authentically Italian, it is delicious and easy. Two things which I am sure we can both agree are awesome when it comes to recipes. Serve this delicious alfredo sausage pasta any night of the week or for dinner parties and it’s sure to always be a hit. 

Sausage skillet pasta ingredients

• Pasta: you can use any pasta desired but we like to use linguine.
• Sausage: Use Italian sausage as the meat in this dish as it will come already seasoned and taste great once cooked up.
• Seasonings: You’ll need a combination of Italian seasoning, salt, and black pepper to season the dish. These are pretty simple ingredients and you most likely have them on hand already.
• Spices: Adding in a small dash of nutmeg will help to bring some wonderfully earthy and comforting flavors into the dish that make it feel warm and inviting.
• Cream: Use heavy cream or whipping cream depending on what you can find. Either one will work fine as the base of the sauce.
• Cheese: Using grated parmesan cheese will give us a wonderfully rich and cheesy sauce mixture.
• Water: You will need water to help you thin down the pasta sauce to your desired consistency. 
• Parsley: Use fresh parsley to help garnish pasta and add a light flavor as it gets tossed together.

How to make sausage alfredo pasta

• To make this pasta you’ll want to start by cooking up the dry pasta you have in a boiling pot of water as per package instructions until al dente. Drain the pasta.
• In a large saucepan, brown your sausage.
• Add in the Italian seasoning, salt, and black pepper.
• Stir in the cream and bring the mixture to a simmer.
• Add in your parmesan cheese and nutmeg, stir to combine.
• Toss the mixture together with your cooked pasta and add water as needed to thin down the consistency.
• Toss in the fresh parsley leaves for added flavor and taste.
• Serve warm.

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