Spaghetti Alfredo with Kielbasa, Peppers, Onions, and Pineapple
Posted on October 17, 2009 by WillyP
In: Food/ Cooking
What, you weren't expecting pineapple in an Alfredo sauce with kielbasa, peppers and onions, on spaghetti? mwaaahahaha...
Actually, it's pretty damn good, if I do say so myself! The pineapple sweetens a bit, doesn't overpower at all. Oh, I should mention I'm no chef, I just throw things together. They don't always work so well but this time it does. I'll go into detail after the jump.
Ok, here's the recipe, sorta...
First start some water boiling for the spaghetti, as the spaghetti takes longer to cook then it does to make the sauce. For the sauce, I use a tempered steel wok. It's awesome to cook in a well seasoned wok, but that's another story. Anyway, preheat whatever type of pan you prefer. Cut up some kielbasa and throw it in the pan, I like it well browned, but I have to consider the tastes of my wife and kids, so I go for lightly browned. I do add a little Tabasco sauce at this point... but I don't tell them and they love it! When the kielbasa is done to your taste push it aside and throw in about half a bag of frozen, precut peppers and onions. Then add a little container of pineapple, with the juice. simmer that until the liquid is dried up and it starts to sizzle again. Gotta sizzle it just a bit to caramelize the natural sugars in the pineapple. Make sure to scrape across the bottom of the wok, that brown sludge at the bottom is full of flavor! Just be sure it doesn't burn.
By now the spaghetti is cooked and drained. Did I forget to tell you to add the spaghetti to the boiling water, how to cook it, and drain it? Oh well... you'll get over it. Just don't get me started on the evils of overcooking pasta, or leaving it soaking in a pot with the heat turned off because the sauce isn't ready yet. I am going to go there, but not just yet... Leave the spaghetti in the drainer for the moment. Empty a jar of Ragu Alfredo into the pot. Half fill the jar with water, put the lid on and shake it to get all the Afredo sauce out. Pour that into the pot too. Then put the spaghetti back in the pot and add the kielbasa, peppers, onions and pineapple. Mix it up a bit and your good to go.
Oh, I can hear it now... "Jar of sauce??? Bag of frozen peppers and onions?? Who are you and what have you done with WillyP???" Yeah, yeah, I know. Well I got married and now I got two kids and... damn, I'm making excuses but you know what?
Supper was pretty good anyway, if I do say so myself.
Actually, it's pretty damn good, if I do say so myself! The pineapple sweetens a bit, doesn't overpower at all. Oh, I should mention I'm no chef, I just throw things together. They don't always work so well but this time it does. I'll go into detail after the jump.
Ok, here's the recipe, sorta...
First start some water boiling for the spaghetti, as the spaghetti takes longer to cook then it does to make the sauce. For the sauce, I use a tempered steel wok. It's awesome to cook in a well seasoned wok, but that's another story. Anyway, preheat whatever type of pan you prefer. Cut up some kielbasa and throw it in the pan, I like it well browned, but I have to consider the tastes of my wife and kids, so I go for lightly browned. I do add a little Tabasco sauce at this point... but I don't tell them and they love it! When the kielbasa is done to your taste push it aside and throw in about half a bag of frozen, precut peppers and onions. Then add a little container of pineapple, with the juice. simmer that until the liquid is dried up and it starts to sizzle again. Gotta sizzle it just a bit to caramelize the natural sugars in the pineapple. Make sure to scrape across the bottom of the wok, that brown sludge at the bottom is full of flavor! Just be sure it doesn't burn.
By now the spaghetti is cooked and drained. Did I forget to tell you to add the spaghetti to the boiling water, how to cook it, and drain it? Oh well... you'll get over it. Just don't get me started on the evils of overcooking pasta, or leaving it soaking in a pot with the heat turned off because the sauce isn't ready yet. I am going to go there, but not just yet... Leave the spaghetti in the drainer for the moment. Empty a jar of Ragu Alfredo into the pot. Half fill the jar with water, put the lid on and shake it to get all the Afredo sauce out. Pour that into the pot too. Then put the spaghetti back in the pot and add the kielbasa, peppers, onions and pineapple. Mix it up a bit and your good to go.
Oh, I can hear it now... "Jar of sauce??? Bag of frozen peppers and onions?? Who are you and what have you done with WillyP???" Yeah, yeah, I know. Well I got married and now I got two kids and... damn, I'm making excuses but you know what?
Supper was pretty good anyway, if I do say so myself.