Creamy Blue Cheese Pasta Recipe with Lemon and Walnuts
I'm officially obsessed with this quick and easy Blue Cheese Pasta recipe. It's creamy, and vibrant, and super flavourful. A perfectly indulgent dinner for one.
Ingredients
- 100 grams dried pasta
- 60 grams blue cheese
- 35 grams walnuts
- 1 lemon
- 2 cloves garlic
- .5 teaspoon dried chili flakes
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 pinch salt (for the pasta water)
Instructions
- Fill a medium-sized pot with water and bring it to a boil. Add a pinch of salt to the water - but not too much as blue cheese tends to be salty.
- Add the pasta to the water. You can use any shape you like, but I prefer a short pasta shape like bowties or corkscrews. (Or Cascatelli if you can find it!)
- While the pasta cooks, mince the garlic, chop the walnuts, zest the lemon and cut the lemon in half.
- Drain the pasta, remembering to keep the pasta water. We'll be using that in a minute.
- In a frying pan over medium heat, add the olive oil and the walnuts. Stir the walnuts around in the olive oil for approximately 1 minute until they start to smell a bit nutty. Add the garlic, lemon zest, and dried chili flakes.
- Immediately add the pasta and the blue cheese to the pan, along with a splash of the pasta cooking water. Continue to stir and break up the blue cheese so it melts into the pasta water and forms a sauce.
- Continue to cook the pasta in the sauce until the sauce clings nicely to the pasta.
- Pour the pasta into your favourite bowl and squeeze the lemon over the top. Enjoy!
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Nutrition
Calories: 922kcalCarbohydrates: 82.5gProtein: 34.4gFat: 54gSaturated Fat: 14.6gCholesterol: 45mgSodium: 1000mgPotassium: 401mgFiber: 6.2gSugar: 3.2gCalcium: 351mgIron: 1mg
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