Lola’s Kitchen: Cajun Pasta Recipe

Posted July 31, 2015 by Lola in Lola's Kitchen / 8 Comments

Lola’s Kitchen is a feature on Lola’s Reviews where I talk about all things related to food, cooking and baking. These posts can be recipe posts or more discussion type posts about food. I love cooking and spend some time in the kitchen almost every day, so I wanted to give it a place on my blog as well. The banner for this feature is designed by Michelle from Limabean Design.

There aren’t many pasta recipes I liked and I don’t often try new pasta recipes for that reason, but when I came across a creamy cajun pasta recipe I had to give it a try. I was really happy with the homemade cajun spice mix that was provided in the recipe and after the first time I decided I had to do a recipe post about this. As I am a vegetarian I prepare the chicken seperately so my boyfriend can mix it through his pasta on his plate, but if everyone eats meat you can ofcourse just mix it through the pasta.
This recipe is losely based on Cooking Classy her Creamy Cajun Chicken Pasta Recipe.
Cajun Pasta with Chicken

Ingredients

Cajun Pasta Ingredients

  • Red Bell Pepper – 3
  • Onion – 1
  • Pasta – 180 gram/ 9oz
  • Olive Oil
  • Chicken – 150 gram/ 0,25 lb for one/ two people or 500 gram/ 1lb for four people (optional)
  • Water – 1 1/4 liter / 5 cups
  • Low Salt Bouillon Cubes – 1 1/2
  • Paprika powder – 4 teaspoons
  • Garlic Powder – 2 teaspoons
  • Salt – 1 teaspoon
  • Thyme – 4 teaspoons
  • Onion powder – 2 teaspoons
  • Black Pepper powder – 1 teaspoon
  • Cayenne Pepper – 1/2 teaspoon or more if you like your food spicy

This recipe feeds about 4 people. If you don’t want to make your own spices mix, you can substitute the spices for a storebrought cajun spices mix.

Method

  1. First prepare the cajun spices mix if you’re not using storebrought cajun seasoning. Mix the paprika powder, salt, oregano, thyme, onion powder, black pepper powder and cayenne pepper in a tiny bowl.
  2. Slice the chicken in tiny squares and throw them in a small/medium bowl, add some olive oil and two teaspoon cajun spices. Mix well and set aside to marinate.
  3. Now slice and dice the onion and red bell pepper.
  4. Heat some olive oil in a big pan or wok and bake the onion until translucent. Then add the red bell pepper and one cup water and cook for about ten minutes.
  5. Then add the rest of the water, the rest of the cajun spices (about 3 teaspoons) and the 2 bouillon cubes.
  6. Break the pasta in tiny pieces and add to the wok. Now cook for 10 minutes or until most of the water is gone.
  7. In the meantime heat some olive oil and bake the chicken.
  8. Combine the chicken and pasta or mix on your plate.

Pictures

The spices

Spices

Cajun spices after combining

Cajun Spices mix

Slice and dice the chicken in tiny pieces

Dicing chicken

The chicken with cajun spices, marinating

Marinating chicken

Red Bell Pepper

Red Bell Pepper

Baking onion

Onion baking

Baking onion and red bell pepper

Red bell pepper baking

Pasta!

Pasta

Water and spices added

Water and red bell pepper

Add pasta

Add pasta

Baking the chicken

Baking the chicken

Chicken

Chicken

Cajun Pasta

Cajun Pasta

Cajun Pasta on plate

Cajun Pasta on plate

Variation Tips

  • Cajun Seafood Pasta. Substitute the chicken for shrimp or other seafood.
  • Cheesy/ Creamy Cajun Pasta. Like Cooking Classy her Creamy Cajun Chicken Pasta Recipe you can add 1 1/2 cups milk, 3 tabslespoon flour, 1/2 cu heavy cream and 1/3 cup parmesan cheese to the dish. Add these ingredients at step 5.

What’s your favourite dish with cajun spices?

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8 responses to “Lola’s Kitchen: Cajun Pasta Recipe

    • Yeah it’s hard for me to find pasta dishes I like, so I do a happy dance every time I fidn one that I like. And this dish isn’t spicy, it might sound like it, but it isn’t spicy at all. It does has a strong garlic flavour and a bit bite, but it isn’t spicy. Just like you I am a total wuss when it comes to spicy heat and I often find things spicy that other people don’t, I’ve never met someone in real life who could stand spicyness less than me. So you’ll never find a spicy dish here, except as variation tip. With the 1/2 teapsoon cayenne pepper it’s not spicy, you can even remove it altogether if you wish.
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        • Yeah sounds like we’re pretty much the same when it comes to spice. I can’t stand hot food.
          The original recipe was pretty mild as well. As I don’t live in the US I haven’t tried cajun food before this, so I wouldn’t know how it tastes there. Just be carefull with the cayenne pepper and you’ll be fine. And those who like it spicier can add a bit more cayenne pepper to their food. My mom and sister love the spicy stuff as well and sometimes had trouble cooking for me in the past as almost everything was too spicy for me.

    • Oh that’s a great idea to add these spiced to fried rice. I’l pass on the shrimp though as I don’t like them. Thanks for the idea.
      I hope you give it a try! This dish had me wanting to try out more cajun flavored dishes as well. It’s so flavourfull, but not too spicy.
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