Quick and oh so tasty, this luxurious Creamy Boursin Pasta with smoked bacon is an easy pasta recipe to make on busy weeknights!
Serve the Boursin cheese pasta with roasted Tenderstem broccoli and homemade focaccia for a complete meal!
We're all massive fans of Garlic and Herb Boursin soft cheese here, and I've recently discovered it's not only great with crackers, but it also makes an awesome creamy pasta sauce too!
If you're a Boursin fan like me, you're definitely going to want to try this amazing creamy pasta recipe!
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✔️ Why should you try it?
Here's why this is the best boursin pasta recipe!
- On the table in 15 minutes.
- Only a handful of ingredients.
- Easy to make.
- Perfect pasta comfort food.
- The recipe can easily be doubled.
🥘 Ingredients
- Garlic and Herb Boursin - 1 x 150g packet of garlic and herb Boursin cheese at room temperature. Boursin melts really well, which makes it perfect for this creamy pasta recipe.
- Bacon - smoked bacon gives the dish a wonderful smoky salty flavour that contrasts so well with the creamy soft cheese sauce.
- Garlic - adds loads of flavour. Use extra garlic cloves if you love your food really garlicky!
- Parsley - the green speckles of finely chopped fresh parsley give the dish a wonderful freshness.
- Italian Hard Cheese - Parmesan or Grana Padano, finely grated.
- Pasta - spaghetti or any pasta of your choice.
🔪 Instructions
The recipe card with ingredient quantities and detailed instructions can be found at the bottom of the post
One: Cook the pasta according to packet instructions, reserving 1 cup of pasta water when draining the pasta. Meanwhile, in a frying pan, fry the chopped smoked bacon and the chopped garlic in a little olive oil for a few minutes until the bacon is cooked.
Two: Add the Boursin cheese and half the cup of reserved pasta cooking water and stir with a wooden spoon to combine.
Three: Keep adding more water until you reach your desired sauce consistency.
Four: Toss the cooked pasta through the sauce and add in the chopped parsley and grated hard cheese.
💭 Top tips
- Adding the starchy pasta water helps to emulsify the sauce and make it silky smooth.
- Sprinkle with red pepper flakes before serving for a delicious flavour boost.
- Ladle the water out of the pasta pan before draining the pasta (otherwise you might forget to save it and it will run down the drain!).
- Boil the pasta in salted water. An Italian cook once told me pasta water should be as salty as the Mediterranean!
- The recipe can easily be doubled to feed 4.
🍴 Serving suggestions
Serve the boursin pasta with a green salad or green vegetables such as roasted tenderstem broccoli or asparagus.
For something a bit more substantial, serve with garlic butter chicken strips and pesto focaccia!
📖 Variations
- Make it vegetarian by leaving out the bacon and adding chopped sun-dried tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, and toasted pine nuts.
- Up the veggies with a handful of frozen peas or frozen sweetcorn added to the pasta water.
- Add a finely chopped red onion and cook with the garlic.
- A splash of white wine before you add the boursin cheese will give the pasta dish a lovely rich flavour.
- Drizzle the finished dish with extra-virgin olive oil and sprinkle with finely grated lemon zest.
- Swap the Boursin for soft creamy goat cheese or soft blue cheese.
- Add leftover roast chicken, prawns, or air fryer salmon.
- Swap the herbs and use basil or dill instead of parsley, or a combination of different fresh herbs.
🥡 Storage
Store: The creamy boursin pasta is best eaten fresh, but leftovers can be put in an airtight container and kept in the fridge for up to 3 days
Reheat: Reheat in the microwave until piping hot.
Freeze: The recipe isn't suitable for freezing.
❓ FAQS
Boursin cheeses are made with pasteurised milk and are therefore safe to eat during pregnancy.
Its soft texture means it melts really easily and is perfect for creating creamy sauces.
Once opened, Boursin cheese will last for up to two weeks in the fridge.
😋Related recipes
More easy pasta recipes to try!
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- Easy Angel Hair Pasta with Garlic, Herbs and Parmesan
- Gnocchi with a Creamy Blue Cheese Sauce
- Creamy Sweet Potato Pasta
- Chicken and Broccoli Pasta Bake
- Chicken Penne Arrabbiata
- Caramelised Shallot Pasta
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Recipe
Creamy Boursin Pasta
Ingredients
- 200 g Pasta of your choice
- 1 tablespoon Olive Oil
- 4 Smoked Bacon Rashers chopped
- 1 Garlic Clove peeled and chopped
- 150 g Garlic and Herb Boursin Cheese
- 50 g Grana Padano grated (or use Parmesan)
- 2 tablespoon Parsley finely chopped
Instructions
- Bring a pan of salted water to the boil and cook the pasta according to packet instructions. Reserve a cup of pasta water before draining.
- Meanwhile, heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a frying pan and cook the bacon and garlic on a medium heat, until the bacon is cooked.
- Add the Boursin cheese and half the reserved cooking water to the bacon mix and stir until the Boursin is melted. Add more water until you get the consistency of sauce you like.
- Stir in the drained pasta and mix to coat the pasta in the sauce.
- Add the grated grana padano (or Parmesan) and freshly chopped parsley, season and serve.
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Notes
- Adding the starchy pasta water helps to emulsify the sauce and make it silky smooth.
- Ladle the water out of the pasta pan before draining the pasta (otherwise you might forget to save it and it will run down the drain!).
- Boil the pasta in salted water. An Italian cook once told me pasta water should be as salty as the Mediterranean!
Jess
You had me at Bacon!!
Ashley
I don't even like pasta and this was amazing!!! I love Boursin cheese, so anything with it calls to me like Moana calls the sea.
Biana
Yum! Creamy pasta with bacon sounds like something I am going to make very soon. Thank you for the recipe.
Kechi
This pasta recipe looks and sounds flavorful; I want the sauce, and everything. What a delightful dish, thanks for sharing!
Claudia Lamascolo
We love bacon the family will love this dish!
Sara Welch
Enjoyed this easy and delicious recipe for dinner last night and it did not disappoint! A quick recipe that is great for busy weeknights, indeed!
Paula J
will try this for a change, i usually do it with stilton and creme fraise
Lesley
Delicious and simple, unfortunately does nothing to control cholesterol !!
Val
Absolutely amazing so quick to put together 😋 all my favourites in one dish