Name: Blue cheese pasta
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 400g penne pasta; 25g butter; 1 onion thinly sliced; 1 garlic clove crushed; 1 tbsp fresh chopped sage or 1 tsp dried; 100g stilton cubed; handful toasted walnuts chopped

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Blue cheese pasta

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Serves 4

Easy

Prep: 5 mins

Cook: 15 mins

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A great pasta dish that uses up your Christmas storecupboard faves

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Ingredients

Nutrition

Units:

MetricUS

400g penne

pasta
25g butter
1 onion

thinly sliced
1 garlic clove

crushed
1 tbsp fresh chopped sage

or 1 tsp dried
100g stilton

cubed
handful toasted walnuts

chopped

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal554
fat20g
saturates10g
carbs79g
sugars4g
fibre4g
protein19g
salt0.63g

low

Method

step 1

Boil the pasta according to pack instructions. In a saucepan, melt the butter, then gently fry the onion until golden. Add the garlic and sage, fry for a further 2 mins, then remove the pan from the heat. Drain the pasta and reserve some cooking water. Stir through the buttery onions, stilton and 2 tbsp cooking water, then sprinkle with the toasted walnuts to serve.

RECIPE TIPS

ADDING BACON...

Pasta with bacon & cranberry Wensleydale. Follow the above recipe using a thinly sliced red onion this time. Fry the onion with 2 rashers chopped back bacon in the melted butter. Stir through 100g chopped cranberry Wensleydale at the end instead of the Stilton. Serve with the toasted walnuts sprinkled on top.

OTHER CHEESES

If stilton is too strong for your taste, try using a milder blue cheese such as dolcelatte, or swap half the stilton in the recipe for some creamy, mild mascarpone.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, December 2006

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