Boursin Cheese Pasta

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This Boursin cheese pasta recipe is just as easy to make as it is delicious. It’s the perfect dinner for busy weeknights or a cozy at-home date night. View thee recipe post above for step-by-step image instructions.

Prep Time5

Cook Time35

Total Time40

Course: Dinner, Main Course

Cuisine: American, Italian

Diet: Gluten Free, Vegetarian

Keyword: Baked Pasta, boursin cheese

Servings: servings

Author: Molly Thompson

Equipment

Casserole Dish

Ingredients

2 (8-ounce) packages Boursin cheese store-bought or homemade (Note 1)
2 pints cherry tomatoes (Note 2)
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
4 cloves minced garlic
1/4 tsp red pepper flakes more or less to desired spice level
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon kosher salt
16 ounces long cut pasta gluten-free if needed (Note 3)
1 cup pasta cooking water optional
1/4 cup parmesan cheese for topping
Fresh herbs like basil and oregano for topping

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400°F. Place the cherry tomatoes and in a large dish, like a 9x13-inch casserole dish. Drizzle the tomatoes with olive oil and sprinkle with the minced garlic, red pepper flakes, black pepper, and slat. Toss quickly with a spoon or your hands to coat the tomatoes.
Unwrap the Boursin cheese, or scoop it out if using homemade, and place it in the center of thee dish on top of the tomatoes. Bake in the preheat oven for 35 minutes, until the tomatoes are bursting and the Boursin cheese is soft.
While it’s baking, prepare the pasta according to the package directions. Reserve 1 cup of thee cooking water before draining the pasta and set it aside.
When the tomatoes and cheese are done, carefully remove it from the oven and use a wooden spoon or whisk to mix the cheese with the roasted tomatoes. You may need to push the tomatoes down with the back of the spoon to help them burst and release their juices into the sauce. The sauce should be thick and creamy.
Transfer the cooked pasta into the creamy sauce and toss to cook. Add up to 1 cup of the pasta water to thin the sauce out as needed. Top with fresh basil and more red pepper flakes if desired.

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Notes

Note 1. Boursin Cheese. You can use a classic Boursin Cheese with herbs, but feel free to try one of the other flavors with different herbs and spices. They make dairy-free Boursin cheese, but it uses canola oil, so we make homemade Boursin Cheese. We love this simple recipe and it’s easy to make dairy-free with dairy-free cream cheese and vegan butter.

Note 2. Tomatoes. The sauce relies on the tomatoes to release the juice to make a sauce, but feel free to add more vegetables like chopped zucchini, mushrooms, or red onion. More veggies may change the final consistency as they release water into the sauce.

Note 3. Pasta. We used Jovial Gluten-Free Fettuccine, but you can use any long-cut pasta. You can also use short cut like Penne pasta, similar to the one in the viral feta pasta.

Add Protein. Top the pasta with blackened salmon, blackened chicken tenders, or even the seared steak in our steak pasta recipe. This recipe is simple and delicious alongside almost every protein.

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