Blue Cheese Sauce For Spaghetti and Steak
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The following recipe is for spaghetti with a blue cheese sauce. A delicious, simple pasta recipe that comes down to spaghetti, butter, and blue cheese. You could also substitute Gorgonzola cheese. The ingredient list is simple:
- spaghetti (half a pound) - crumbled blue cheese (1/3 pound) - unsalted butter (2 tablespoons) - chopped parsley (quarter cup) - kosher salt |
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Add water and a bit of kosher salt to a pot, bring the water to a boil, then add pasta and cook for the recommended amount of time. When the pasta is done cooking, drain with a colander, but keep half a cup of the cooked pasta water for later use.
Put the heat to low then add the butter to the bottom of the pot. Once it has melted, add the pasta back into the pot. Stir and let the butter coat the pasta. Now add the blue cheese bit by bit. Stir the cheese into the spaghetti noodles so that the cheese melts and also coats the pasta. As you're doing this, add a little bit of the pasta water - this will help create a better sauce and keep the pasta noodles from sticking to each other.
When the blue cheese is done melting, add the salt and parsley, along with whatever other seasoning and herbs that you'd like. Your pasta is ready to serve!
You can vary the type of blue cheese you choose with different textures. All blue cheese is creamy. Blue cheese like Cambazola is buttery, whereas Roquefort is crumbly. Finally, blue cheese like Stilton have a firm texture.
If you want to take things a little further with blue cheese in sauces, try this recipe for blue cheese steak sauce. Blue cheese and steak go perfectly with one another. You'll need to pick a particular variety of blue cheese, and experiment with which one works best for this steak sauce. Blue cheese options include Gorgonzola, Roquefort, Stilton, Cashel blue, Cambazola, buttermilk blue, and Maytag blue. If you're not sure which to choose go with Gorgonzola, which is nice and creamy and should serve you well in your steak sauce.
It's a small list of ingredients for this particular recipe:
- crumbled blue cheese of your choice (1/3 pound)
- heavy cream (half cup)
- Worcestershire sauce (teaspoon)
Start with a one-and-a-quarter quart saucepan, adding the cream and bringing it to simmer with a medium-low heat. Keep stirring as your cream begins to thicken to prevent burning, etc. Expect to cook the cream for around 3 to 5 minutes.
Now take half the blue cheese and add it to the warm cream. Use a fork to mash and stir into the cream. After the cheese is melted, add in the Worcestershire sauce and keep stirring.
Let the sauce simmer for another 3 to 5 minutes so that it thickens. Now add the second half of the blue cheese and stir into the sauce. You don't want the rest of the blue cheese to melt completely, because you'll end up with a sauce that's too runny, so take the saucepan off of the heat. The blue cheese sauce should be perfectly ready to serve with your steak immediately.
Put the heat to low then add the butter to the bottom of the pot. Once it has melted, add the pasta back into the pot. Stir and let the butter coat the pasta. Now add the blue cheese bit by bit. Stir the cheese into the spaghetti noodles so that the cheese melts and also coats the pasta. As you're doing this, add a little bit of the pasta water - this will help create a better sauce and keep the pasta noodles from sticking to each other.
When the blue cheese is done melting, add the salt and parsley, along with whatever other seasoning and herbs that you'd like. Your pasta is ready to serve!
You can vary the type of blue cheese you choose with different textures. All blue cheese is creamy. Blue cheese like Cambazola is buttery, whereas Roquefort is crumbly. Finally, blue cheese like Stilton have a firm texture.
If you want to take things a little further with blue cheese in sauces, try this recipe for blue cheese steak sauce. Blue cheese and steak go perfectly with one another. You'll need to pick a particular variety of blue cheese, and experiment with which one works best for this steak sauce. Blue cheese options include Gorgonzola, Roquefort, Stilton, Cashel blue, Cambazola, buttermilk blue, and Maytag blue. If you're not sure which to choose go with Gorgonzola, which is nice and creamy and should serve you well in your steak sauce.
It's a small list of ingredients for this particular recipe:
- crumbled blue cheese of your choice (1/3 pound)
- heavy cream (half cup)
- Worcestershire sauce (teaspoon)
Start with a one-and-a-quarter quart saucepan, adding the cream and bringing it to simmer with a medium-low heat. Keep stirring as your cream begins to thicken to prevent burning, etc. Expect to cook the cream for around 3 to 5 minutes.
Now take half the blue cheese and add it to the warm cream. Use a fork to mash and stir into the cream. After the cheese is melted, add in the Worcestershire sauce and keep stirring.
Let the sauce simmer for another 3 to 5 minutes so that it thickens. Now add the second half of the blue cheese and stir into the sauce. You don't want the rest of the blue cheese to melt completely, because you'll end up with a sauce that's too runny, so take the saucepan off of the heat. The blue cheese sauce should be perfectly ready to serve with your steak immediately.