Chicken Apple Sausage and Basil Cream Fettuccine

Every couple of weeks, one of our grocery stores has sausage go on sale every couple of weeks and their chicken apple sausage always looks really good but have never tried it before. I decided to get one link and try it out! I thought it would be really yummy to do in a pasta dish. It turned out really well! The sausage was a little sweet with a little residual heat. The sauce was creamy and super flavourful! This lunch was about $2 a serving, less than 20 minutes to make, and tasted better than something that would have cost five times as much at Olive Garden.

Ingredients:
1 chicken apple sausage link
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1/4 c of chicken stock
1 cup half and half
2 tablespoons grated Parmesan
1 tablespoon chopped fresh basil
6 ounces fettuccine

Take the sausage out of the casing and cook up over medium high heat. Crumble it up well. When the sausage is done cooking, pull it out and let it drain on a plate lined with paper towel. Turn the heat down to medium and add the garlic to the sausage grease. Sauté for about 30 seconds and add the chicken stock. Stir well while pouring in the stock to help pull up the yummy brown bits from the sausage. Start cooking the pasta and cook according to package directions. When the stock has reduced by about half, add the half and half and stir well. When pasta is about half done cooking, add the Parmesan and put sausage back in the pan. Bring to a boil and let simmer. When pasta is done, drain it and add to the sauce. Remove from heat and add basil.