Baked Brie Pasta
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: Dinner, Main Course
Ingredients
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- 4 oz. thick-sliced bacon (cut into ½” pieces)
- Kosher salt
- 10 oz. dried pasta (trumpet, fusilli, or rotini)
- Extra-virgin olive oil
- 8 oz. cremini mushrooms (sliced)
- 1 large shallot (chopped)
- 3 cloves garlic (sliced and chopped)
- 4 tsp. chopped thyme leaves
- ½ c. white wine
- ½ c. heavy cream
- 1 tbsp. Dijon mustard
- 7 oz. triple cream brie (top rind sliced off)
- ¼ c. toasted (chopped pine nuts)
- Zest of 1 lemon
- ¼ c. chopped basil leaves
Instructions
- Cook bacon in a skillet until crispy, then set aside. Reserve 2 tbsp. of bacon fat.
- Boil salted water and cook pasta until slightly underdone. Reserve ½ cup pasta water.
- Sauté mushrooms, shallot, garlic, and thyme in bacon fat. Add wine, cream, and mustard.
- Move mushroom mix aside, place brie in skillet, cover, and bake.
- Combine pine nuts, garlic, lemon zest, and basil.
- Stir pasta into brie, top with bacon and pine nut mix, and serve hot with lemon wedges. Enjoy!
