Kickin' Chicken Rigatoni
Delicious chicken sausage in a kicked up cream sauce over pasta.
Ingredients
- ½ lb Bacon cut into ½-inch pieces
- 1½ lb Rigatoni
- ½ Yellow Onion diced
- 1 4oz can Diced Jalapeno
- 1 Red Bell Pepper diced
- 1 Yellow Bell Pepper diced
- 2 lb Chicken Sausage cut into ½-inch coins
- 4 tbsp Butter
- 1 tsp Garlic Powder
- 1 tsp Red Pepper Flakes
- 1 tsp Basil
- 4 tbsp Flour
- 1 cup Chicken Broth
- 1 cup Heavy Cream
- 1 cup Parmesan Cheese shredded
- 1 cup Mozzarella Cheese shredded
Instructions
- Start water boiling for pasta.
- In a large saute pan over medium-high heat, add bacon. Cook until crispy and remove to paper-towel covered plate. Reserve bacon grease.
- In same saute pan, add onions, jalapenos, and bell peppers. Let cook for 3 minutes, then add chicken sausage. Cook for 3 minutes then reduce heat to medium- low.
- Add pasta to boiling water and cook as directed on package. Drain in a colander and rinse with cool water.
- In a sauce pan over medium heat, add butter, garlic powder, basil and red pepper flakes. Once melted whisk in flour and cook for 2 minutes. Then whisk in chicken broth and cook for 2 minutes. Next whisk in heavy cream and cook for 2 minutes. Last, add cheese (one handful at a time) and cook until fully melted.
- Add cheese sauce to sausage and veggie pan and stir to combine. Let cook 5 minutes.
- In a shallow bowl, serve sausage sauce over top of cooked rigatoni. Sprinkle with bacon.
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