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Quattro Formaggi Pasta

Is the cheese pasta craving calling? Try this quattro formaggi pasta from Italy. It's delicious, easy and quick to make.
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Prep Time 15 mins
Cook Time 20 mins
Total Time 35 mins
Course Main Course
Cuisine Italian
Servings 2
Calories 800 kcal

Equipment

  • 1 chopping board
  • 1 chopping knife
  • 1 grater
  • 1 medium pan
  • 1 medium pot
  • 1 stirring spoon

Ingredients
  

  • 300 gr penne like our Artisan Penne rigate
  • 200 ml cooking cream
  • 30 gr grated pecorino cheese
  • 100 gr emmental cheese
  • 80 gr gorgonzola Italian blue cheese
  • 1 tbsp Philadelphia cream cheese
  • salt and pepper
  • parsley

Instructions
 

  • Grate your pecorino cheese and set aside.
  • Cut your emmental cheese into small cubes.
    PS: If you don't like chunks into your cheese sauce, then you may want to grate this too.
    preparing hard cheeses for quattro formaggi pasta
  • Boil the water for the pasta with plenty of salt.
  • Add the cooking cream to your pan and season. Let it heat up over the heat.
    making quattro formaggi pasta sauce
  • Once hot, add the hard cheeses to start melting: the pecorino you grated and the emmental you prepared. Mix well from time to time to help them melt, and lower the heat so the cheese sauce doesn't stick or burn.
    adding hard cheeses for quattro formaggi sauce
  • Cut your blue cheese into cubes and get your Philadelphia cream cheese ready to be used.
  • Throw your pasta to cook.
    cooking penne for quattro formaggi
  • Add the cream cheeses: the cut blue cheese and the tablespoons of cream cheese, and mix well.
    adding blue cheese to quattro formaggi sauce
  • Continue mixing while the pasta is cooking. When your quattro formaggi cheese sauce has reached your preferred consistency (I like it a little chunky), take it off the heat.
  • Drain the pasta, saving some pasta water, and adding it back to the pot with pasta.
  • Add the quattro formaggi pasta sauce to your penne, and mix well.
    adding quattro formaggi sauce to penne pasta
  • Quickly plate and enjoy.
    PS: The pasta shouldn't get dry too quickly as both the cream and Philadelphia cheese are helping it stay creamy and moist. But don't wait too long to enjoy it.
    quattro formaggi pasta is ready
  • Feel free to garnish with some fresh parsley and add an extra dash of black pepper.
    tasting quattro formaggi sauce

Notes

Note the calories above give you a large portion of quattro formaggi pasta. If you want to cut back, then just enjoy a smaller portion.
I left out butter, but feel free to add a knob or two when heating your cooking cream.
Keyword cheese pasta, quattro formaggi pasta