This Creamy Pasta with Blue Cheese & Black Olives is so delicious as it contains ingredients with bright flavors, each of which makes this dish exceedingly balanced. You’ll love it if you’re fond of blue cheese and olives. Let’s make it!
Ingredients for Creamy Pasta with Blue Cheese & Black Olives
- Linguini pasta
I like this type of pasta for this recipe as it ideally soaks in a creamy sauce. However, it’s fair to say that spaghetti would also be suitable for this recipe. So, make your choice.
- Blue Cheese
A reasonable question would be, “What type of cheese to choose for this pasta?”. Well, I advise using Gorgonzola. It has a balanced flavor. It is spicy enough but not as sharp as Roquefort. You can use your favorite one that you prefer for wine because then you’ll be sure the taste of this pasta will please you. Just make sure it can melt.
- Cream
As for the cream, here we need to use cream with 18-20% fat. Why not less? The sauce won’t get the required consistency. Why not more? Then the sauce will be over-fat, and the taste will be heavy. So 18% is perfect.
- Olives
As for the olives, use black ones. Mine don’t have a specific name (such as Kalamata, for example). Pay attention to the composition of the olive (description). The product you buy must consist of olives, oil, and salt. No need for any additions, as they may change the dish’s taste. By the way, olives are rich in vitamin E and other antioxidants, which may help reduce the risk of health conditions like cancer, diabetes, stroke, and heart disease.
- Black pepper
This is a finishing touch of our recipe. While serving the pasta on the plates, we dress it with freshly ground black pepper. The freshly cooked hot pasta will release some steam, which will help release the pepper flavor. Since it is freshly ground, the aroma will be more pronounced and bright, and it goes well with blue cheese.
- A pinch of salt
I suppose no pasta is being cooked without salt: a minor but essential ingredient. So don’t forget to add it.
How to make Creamy Pasta with Blue Cheese & Black Olives
Boil the water, and add a pinch of salt and linguine. Cook till al dente, in accordance with your linguine instructions. Mine take 11 mins.
Let’s deal with olives. If your olives have pits, delete them. Chop the olives and set them aside.
Cut the blue cheese into pieces sized about 1cm. Set aside.
Place a pan on medium heat, add cream, and then add blue cheese pieces and let it melt. Then decrease the heat to low and stir the sauce till the cheese is fully melted.
Add cooked linguine to the sauce and mix til the sauce fully covers the pasta. Add chopped olives, and mix all together. Your pasta is ready to be served.
Place the pasta on the plates, and serve with small blue cheese pieces and freshly ground black pepper. Enjoy!
If you like pasta, check out these easy pasta recipes:
- Mushroom Breadcrumbs Pasta with Truffle oil
- Lemon Garlic Shrimp Pasta
- Creamy Tomato Pasta with Garlic Shrimp
Creamy Pasta with Blue Cheese & Black Olives
Ingredients
- 140 g linguini pasta
- 70 g blue cheese
- 100 g cream (18%)
- 20 g black olives
- a pinch of salt
- freshly-ground black pepper
Instructions
- Boil the water, and add a pinch of salt and linguine. Cook till al dente, accordring to the instructions.
- Delete the pits from the olives. Chop the olives and set them aside.
- Cut the blue cheese and set aside.
- Place a pan on medium heat, and add cream and blue cheese. Decrease the heat to low and stir the sauce till the cheese is fully melted.
- Add cooked pasta to the sauce and mix, so the sauce fully covers the pasta. Add chopped olives, and mix.
- Serve pasta with blue cheese pieces and freshly ground black pepper.
Creamy Pasta with Blue Cheese & Black Olives