(Macaroni with creamy sauce made with four kinds of cheese - Traditional Italian pasta recipe)

Italian pasta tossed with four cheese sauce, the image shows a detail of these creamy macaroni

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280 g (10 oz) short pasta (macaroni, penne ...)
50 g (1 3/4 oz) Emmental cheese, cubed
50 g (1 3/4 oz) Dutch cheese, cubed
50 g (1 3/4 oz) mozzarella cheese, grated
80 g (about 3 oz) grated Parmesan
1 tablespoon dried parsley
50 g (1 3/4 oz) unsalted butter
Salt
Pepper, if you like

Time:
preparation: 10 minutes
cooking: 25 minutes
Difficulty:
easy recipe
Nutrition Facts (amount per serving):
Calories: 544 (kCal) 27 % GDA - 2277 (kJ)
Protein: 23.4 (g) 46 % GDA
Total fat: 26.7 (g) 37 % GDA
Total carbohydrate: 56.1 (g) 21 % GDA
Sugars: 3.7 (g) 3 % GDA

Macaroni with four kinds of cheese is a traditional Italian recipe in which pasta is tossed with no tomato sauce.
Cheese sauce is a creamy sauce made melting three or four kinds of cheese at bain-marie.
It tastes fantastic but it's a recipe rich in calories and fat: be careful not to eat it often.
Here it is the recipe of four cheese macaroni or penne.

Cook the pasta you've chosen (macaroni, penne or another shape of short pasta) until al dente stage according to our instructions.
Prepare the sauce while you're cooking pasta.
Use a non-stick frying pan and put it in another pan in which you've added some water. This is the tecnique of bain-marie cooking. It's important to prepare this creamy sauce.
Melt the butter and then add Dutch and Emmenthal cheese and the half of Parmesan cheese. Stir and let all the ingredients melt together. Make this step few minutes before draining pasta. Remove the pan from bain-marie and then drain pasta very well.
Put the pasta into the pan together with parsley and mozzarella cheese. Let all the ingredients flavours on medium heat stirring accurately for a minute.
Serve the pasta hot sprinkled with the remaining Parmesan cheese and pepper.

Note

- The only difficulty is to amalgamate the mozzarella to the other cheese very well. We suggest you another way for the best result. Add grated mozzarella directly on the pasta when you've just switched off the gas. Cover the pan and wait one or two minutes before putting the pasta in the plates.
- You cal also use other kinds of cheese if you want. But remember every cheese must melt for the best results.
Other suggestions may be: gorgonzola, Fontina, Asiago, Ricotta ... cheese.
- Some people use to dilute the sauce with some milk but it isn't in our habit. Somebody else is used to add single cream (light cream) but the recipe is already rich in calories and fat: it isn't necessary to add other ingredients.
- Use the short pasta you prefer (macaroni, penne, pipe ...). All kinds of short pasta is tasty with this kind of sauce.
- It isn't necessary to use four kinds of cheese. Use three or five kinds of cheese. Do you have any cheese left in the fridge? You can prepare this fantastic dish of pasta!
- Read more about this nutrition facts recipe in our blog ...