Pasta with Sun-Dried Tomato Cream Sauce
A super easy pasta dish with the most amazing, creamiest sun-dried tomato sauce ever, made in less than 30 min!
Remember that sun-dried tomato cream sauce I made not too long ago? The one I wanted to guzzle down? Well, I just had to make it again, except this time I turned into an epic pasta dish.
Best of all, this is the easiest pasta dish ever, and you can add in your favorite meats and/or veggies – the possibilities are endless. Although I highly recommend the smoked andouille chicken sausage (found at Trader Joe’s) – it pairs beautifully with the sun dried tomatoes and heavenly cream sauce!
Pasta with Sun-Dried Tomato Cream Sauce
A super easy pasta dish with the most amazing, creamiest sun-dried tomato sauce ever, made in less than 30 min!
Ingredients
- 8 ounces penne
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 smoked andouille sausage links, thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves
For the cream sauce
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 cup chicken broth
- ½ cup heavy cream
- ⅓ cup julienned sun dried tomatoes in olive oil, drained
- ¼ cup freshly grated Parmesan
- ¼ teaspoon dried oregano
- ¼ teaspoon dried basil
- ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes, or more, to taste
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Instructions
- In a large pot of boiling salted water, cook pasta according to package instructions; drain well.
- Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add sausage, and cook, stirring frequently, until sausage is lightly browned, about 3-4 minutes; set aside.
- To make the cream sauce, melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add garlic and cook, stirring frequently, until fragrant, about 1-2 minutes. Whisk in flour until lightly browned, about 1 minute. Gradually whisk in chicken broth and cook, whisking constantly, until incorporated, about 1-2 minutes.
- Stir in heavy cream, sun dried tomatoes, Parmesan, oregano, basil and red pepper flakes until slightly thickened, about 1 minute. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Stir in pasta and sausage until well combined, about 1-2 minutes.
- Serve immediately, garnished with parsley, if desired.
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I recently made cream and sun dried tomato sauce chicken and it was da best! Love your pasta and sausage twist. Looks mouthwatering!
Great recipe Chungah 🙂 love how simple it is – I’m obsessed with sun dried tomatoes AND pasta!
Mmm so simple but delicious!
Can this be served cold????
This is really best when served hot.
I have all the ingredients, but the sausage, but with this sauce, it might not even need that, it looks and sounds amaaazing 😀 x
Sundried tomatoes in a cream sauce is one of my favorite ways to serve pasta! So so good, especially with fresh basil tossed in!
Gotta say Thank You for turning me into a cook. Before I found your website “cooking” meant throwing a Bertolli frozen meal on the stove. Now I am cooking full meals every night! Keep the recipes coming they’re damn delicious!
Wow this looks heavenly and damn delicious !
This dish looks so good, I can’t wait to try it!
I made your previous post of this sauce with chicken. I like the idea of Andouille sausage. I want readers to know how forgiving this sauce is…. I obviously did something wrong but tried to follow recipe exactly. However, when I removed skillet from oven, the sauce was GONE!! Oh oh! All I could think of was to try and rehydrate the sauce. So, I added about 1/3 – 1/2 C more of heavy cream. Whisked it up well to get all the good stuff on the bottom and let it cook just a little. It WORKED!! It came out fabulously. My picky hubby loved it. Thanks for such a delicious forgiving recipe!!
I wonder what I did wrong?? Any ideas??
I have made several of your recipes and have loved them all. Thanks for sharing with us.
And to everyone…..I hope you all have happy, safe, healthy and tasty holidays!! Merry Christmas!!
Unfortunately, it is very difficult to answer what went wrong as I was not in the kitchen with you. Although I worry that your heat source may have been set to high, which in turn completely reduced the sauce!
It happened exactly same thing for me…:( so I added milk instead of heavy cream. It worked. I made the side dish -spicy parmesan kale and mushrooms saute. It was good dinner. I am going to try this recipe too. Since I have all the ingredients; )
Umm..can I hear more about the spicy Parmesan kale and mushroom sauté?
KB NP — I do not see where the instructions even mention the oven. You say you pulled the skillet from the oven — why did you put it IN the oven?
Spot on…. It says serve immediately. My thoughts they were trying to keep it warm in too hot of an oven. Good catch. Sounds like a very delicious recipe. Thank you.
Mel Cole… Good catch on oven bit. Perhaps that’s the reason. LOL
This looks yummy! I’m going to make this week but with zuchinni rather than sausage. Great weeknight dinner during the busy holidays.