# One Pot Andouille Sausage and Orzo

This is a Mardi Gras themed one-pot dish featuring Andouille sausage, Orzo pasta, and crawfish, which is good any time of the year.

- Total time: 15 min
- Cuisine: Italian
- Category: Dinner
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 0.5 pound Andouille sausage
- 0.5 yellow onion
- 1 red bell pepper
- 2 ribs celery, diced
- 1 ton garlic
- 0.5 box Orzo pasta
- 0.5 local beer
- seafood boil seasoning
- chicken stock
- 12 ounce package frozen crawfish tails
- 1 handful Parmesan cheese

## Instructions

1. Cook the Andouille sausage for a few minutes until nice and brown on both sides.
2. Pull out the sausage and set it aside, leaving the sausage grease in the pan.
3. Cook the diced yellow onion, red bell pepper, and celery in the sausage grease until tender.
4. Add a generous amount of garlic and fry for about a minute.
5. Add about half a 1-pound box of Orzo pasta and stir it around for a couple of minutes to toast it up.
6. Pour in about half a beer and let it cook off and reduce down.
7. Season with seafood boil seasoning or any seasoning you prefer.
8. Add enough chicken stock to just cover the pasta.
9. Return the cooked sausage to the pan.
10. Cover and let it cook for 10 to 15 minutes until the pasta is done, stirring occasionally and adding more stock if needed.
11. Add a 12-ounce package of thawed frozen crawfish tails (Louisiana crawfish tails) and heat them through.
12. Stir in a big handful of Parmesan cheese and cut the heat.

## Equipment

- pan

## Tips

- For sober friends, skip the beer and start with chicken stock; it will be just as delicious.
- Stir the pasta occasionally and add more stock if needed.

## Source

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- Extracted: 2026-03-29

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