The Creamy Cheese You Need To Start Using In Your Pasta Dishes

Pasta lovers know the joys of digging into a big beautiful bowl of tasty noodles covered in a variety of sauces and toppings. With so many amazing different types of pasta and various methods of preparation, the possibilities for delicious dishes are nearly endless. If you want your next pasta meal to be extra creamy and wonderful, then why not make it brie-utiful too? Adding brie to a number of different pasta dishes is a fabulous way to add depth, richness, and a great deal of luscious texture to your food.

Brie is an ideal cheese to add to a number of different pastas because of its mild flavor and creamy texture. In fact, of the many creative ways to use brie cheese, adding it to your favorite baked pasta recipes is an especially fun idea, because the process of warming up brie produces an extra gooey consistency for the cheese. The mostly subdued flavor of brie is also excellent, as it adds a melty mouthfeel to pasta dishes without overpowering the other flavors present. With so many different baked pasta recipes to choose from, you can be sure that mixing up a batch with brie will be a hit.

While baked pasta dishes allow for the brie to cook along with the pasta, you can just as easily pre-bake your brie to prepare it for mixing into any other pasta dish of your choosing. For example, if you're looking for a recipe to upgrade spaghetti night, add brie and revel in the richness. In fact, if you want to get extra fancy like the cheese wheel-tossed pasta restaurants that are all the rage on social media, you can easily replicate the process at home. All you have to do is remove the top rind of your brie wheel, bake it in the oven, and then toss your pasta inside the gooey center of your baked brie. For other dishes, you can get even more adventurous.

Take your best baked mac and cheese casserole recipe to new heights of satisfaction by adding in a generous helping of brie. So long as you remove the rind and cube up your brie, you can distribute it into your mac and cheese along with the rest of your favorite cheeses so it bakes up to gooey perfection. This same method can also be applied to other baked pasta dishes, or you can even experiment with swapping out cream cheese for brie in a baked creamy red pepper penne pasta recipe. It's entirely up to you to prepare your brie and pasta however you wish.