Mostaccioli Pasta with Blue Cheese and Bacon
Quick to make, even more quick to disappear.
This quick and easy pasta dish is ready in 25 minutes and it tastes so good because it has blue cheese and bacon in it.
Plus other ingredients of course but this duo of ingredients is a match made in heaven.
The combination of flavors tastes wonderful with the Mostaccioli pasta especially when it’s cooked al-denti (firm).
Since the pasta is tubular, melted butter and blue cheese makes its way into the middle of some of the pasta which tastes amazing with each bite.
This mostaccioli pasta dish is especially good when the blue cheese is warm but not all the way melted, and makes a delicious main or a side dish any day of the week.
It may be on the light side for a main dish, so for a heartier meal, add a salad and, or garlic bread….and dinner is served.
Here are more recipes with blue cheese you may like “Grilled Corn with Basil and Gorgonzola Blue Cheese“, “Tomato and Onion Salad with Blue Cheese” and “Sliced Ham, Apple and Blue Cheese Wrap“.
Let’s check out the ingredients.
Mostaccioli pasta (or penne pasta), crumbled blue cheese, real bacon bits or crumbled bacon, butter, olive oil, granulated garlic, fresh Italian parsley, green onions, salt and pepper
A printable recipe with the measurements and instructions is located at the bottom of this post.
Here’s how to make it.
Chop the parsley, and
the green onion. Set aside.
For the Pasta:
In a medium size pot add water and salt.
Bring to a boil.
Add the pasta and cook until it’s al dente (according to package instructions).
Turn off the heat and drain the pasta.
TIP – Don’t rinse the pasta after cooking it. When pasta is rinsed, the starch is removed.
The starch on pasta helps to hold and absorb the butter and other ingredients in this dish so it’s important to keep the starch on the pasta.
For the Pasta Dish:
Once all of the water is drained out, put the pasta back into the pan.
Add the butter,
bacon,
granulated garlic,
salt and pepper, and
olive oil.
Heat the pan on low heat just long enough to melt the butter (about 4 minutes).
Stir all ingredients together as the butter is melting.
While the pasta is warm add the blue cheese, and
the parsley.
Stir all ingredients together and serve while warm.
Garnish with chopped green onions and additional blue cheese.
Then dig in.
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Mostaccioli Pasta with Blue Cheese and Bacon
Ingredients
For the Pasta:
- 1 cup uncooked Mostaccioli pasta or penne pasta
- 3 dashes Salt
- Water for boiling pasta
For the Pasta Dish:
- 2 tablespoons butter
- Cooked Mostaccioli pasta
- 1 tablespoon (heaping) real bacon bits or crumbled bacon
- ¼ teaspoon (heaping) granulated garlic
- 5 dashes salt or salt to taste
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- ¼ cup crumbled blue cheese for the pasta dish
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh Italian parsley
- ¼ cup chopped green onion for garnish
- 2 tablespoons crumbled blue cheese for garnish
Instructions
For the Pasta:
- In a medium size pot add water and salt. Bring to a boil. Add the pasta and cook until it's al dente (according to package instructions). Turn off the heat and drain the pasta.
- Don’t rinse the pasta after cooking it. When pasta is rinsed, the starch is removed. The starch on pasta helps to hold and absorb the butter and other ingredients in this dish so it’s important to keep the starch on the pasta.
For the Pasta Dish:
- Once all of the water is drained, put the pasta back into the pan. To the pan, add butter, bacon, granulated garlic, salt, pepper, and olive oil.
- Heat the pan on low heat just long enough to melt the butter (about 4 minutes). Stir all ingredients together as the butter is melting.
- While the pasta is warm add the blue cheese, and the parsley. Serve while warm.
- Garnish with the green onions and additional blue cheese.
Can you suggest a substitution for the Blue Cheese? I just really really don’t like it. I did a search and one I came across was Mexican Queso Fresco…what do you think?
Hi Kellie, I think the Queso Fresco cheese may taste more on the mild side. A cheese that tastes more on the strong side may be a good substitute. And a texture that’s on the soft side seems to work well along with the pasta. I think a Brie or Camenbert cheese would taste great with this dish. Do you like these? Or one of the flavored Alouette cheeses that come in a small container that are used to spread on crackers. Is this something you like? Now I think I’ll have to give some of these cheeses a try next time I make this!