Mostaccioli Pasta with Blue Cheese and Bacon
This mostaccioli pasta with blue cheese and bacon is quick to make and can be served as a side dish or light main dish.
Ingredients
For the Pasta:
- 1 cup uncooked (dry) 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
- 1/4 teaspoon (heaping) granulated garlic
- 5 dashes salt or salt to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese for the pasta dish
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh Italian parsley
- 1/4 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 bring it to a boil. To the boiling water, add salt.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 warm.
- Garnish with the green onions and additional blue cheese.