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This Homemade Creamy Four Cheese Garlic Spaghetti Sauce is the most delicious and the easiest white cheese Italian pasta sauce recipe! It's made by cooking minced garlic in olive oil and butter, then adding chicken broth, heavy cream (and the cooked pasta!), and the four cheese blend until the cheese melts into a nice and smooth texture. Simple ingredients and easy cooking technique!
In this recipe, I use a Four-Cheese Blend which includes Mozzarella, White Cheddar, Provolone, Asiago cheeses to make a simple white cream pasta sauce. Usually, when we talk about spaghetti pasta sauces, we talk about pasta with red sauce and meatballs or sausage or something like that. With this white cheese sauce recipe you can try something different next time you decide to cook spaghetti.
What makes this recipe work?
- Easy to make. Short ingredients list. Easy ingredients that you can find in any pantry.
- Use a four cheese blend that includes white cheeses, such as Parmesan, Mozzarella, Provolone, Asiago, White Cheddar, Romano. You can use store-made 4 cheese blend or make your own by combining any of these 4 cheeses together in equal amounts.
- This is a perfect and versatile pasta sauce for any type and shape of pasta. Use it with spaghetti, fettuccine, penne, rigatoni, or any other type of pasta.
- While this recipe makes a delicious pasta as a main dish, it also make a great side dish for all kinds of meats. Grill chicken, pork, seafood, or steak and serve it alongside this white cheese spaghetti sauce.
Related Creamy Pasta Recipes
Here are 3 more recipes that are similar in style to this 4 cheese pasta. All the recipes below are meatless, creamy pastas that work great as main dishes or as side dishes to grilled meats.
- Mushroom Spinach Pasta with Caramelized Onions
- Penne Pasta in Creamy Vodka Tomato Sauce with Mushrooms
- Creamy Asiago Cheese Garlic Tortellini
Four Cheese Garlic White Cream Pasta Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 5 garlic cloves minced
- 8 oz spaghetti
- 1 cup cooked pasta water
- 1 chicken bouillon cube
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 ½ cups Four-Cheese Italian White Cheese Blend Mozzarella, White Cheddar, Provolone, Asiago
- ¼ cup parsley finely chopped (or use green onions)
Instructions
- Heat olive oil and butter on medium heat in a large skillet, add minced garlic and cook for about 1 minute on medium heat, without burning.
- Cook pasta in a separate pan, drain. Reserve some of cooked pasta water. Dissolve 1 cube of chicken broth bullion in 1 cup of hot pasta water.
- Add pasta water (with the dissolved chicken broth bullion cube in it), heavy cream, and cooked spaghetti to the skillet with cooked garlic. Bring to boil, stirring. Once the liquids are boiling, immediately add cheese and keep stirring everything together (spaghetti and the cream), while boiling, until cheese melts and coats pasta, for about 1 minute. Reduce to simmer and continue to cook, constantly stirring, to thicken the sauce - for another minute or two.
- To serve, top each serving with finely chopped parsley or green onions.
Nutrition
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Very good! I added salt, pepper, chives & tarragon and topped the pasta with seared & sliced ribeye and fresh green beans. YUMMY!!!
I made this tonight, it was delicious! I had issues with the cheese not incorporating well so next time I will probably make a roux with a little flour added to the butter/oil/garlic. I added left over chopped Thanksgiving turkey with some peas. Made it similar to Turkey Tetrazzini. Sauce was generous in proportion to the noodles as others have commented. Overall, I WILL be making this again. It was very very good!
I made this tonight and it was very flavorful. Next time I may add some zucchini and squash!! I did top it with dried Italian seasoning and it was wonderful. Thanks so much!
This is amazing! I made this tonight for my husband and very picky teenager. The only change I made was to add smoked turkey (leftover from Thanksgiving), and they both asked to have it again soon!
That was soooooo good!
Made this tonight. I added peas because I was too lazy to make a salad and topped it with breaded lemon chicken. It was amazing, better than anything you'd get at a restaurant. Will definitely make it again...and again and again. Yum!
Thank you - I am so glad you liked it! Peas are a great addition!
I tried it and I could not great my cheese to melt. It ended up being a big glob of glue! What did I do wrong?
The cheese that did melt made a good sauce though.
Cindy, the cheese could end up being a big glob if you don't bring up the liquid to a boiling point. Did you bring the liquid to a boil before adding cheese? The liquids should be hot, then add the cheese gradually, sprinkling it over the liquid and mixing it in. After adding all the cheese and the initial stir, reduce heat to low and continue stirring. This should result in a nice creamy sauce.
This was Delicious! We added grilled chicken and substituted the spaghetti with linguini fini. It was a hit the whole family enjoyed! Thanks for sharing. =)
Jen, so glad you liked it! Grilled chicken sounds like a perfect addition to this pasta!
I like the idea of adding the bullion cube to the cup of pasta water, but my sauce came out too thin. I usually make a roo first. (Flour and butter). However, I did use whole milk rather than cream, and that may have been a factor. Also, I used Gouda cheese (Costco) with the mozzarella and cheddar and it was yummy!
Why no responses to some very valid questions? Or can I not see them for some reason? If you are responding by email, you're robbing the rest of us who have the same questions.
Do you know the calories for this dish?
Thanks
It would depend on brands used, added ingredients etc. I use myfitnesspal, and it has a great calculator for recipes. Eg a recipe has 2 cups flour and 1/2 c butter (plus whatever ingredients) you can type in that you used Bobs red mill whole wheat flour and Parkay margarine. Also has barcode scanner for the app. It's free, i love it !
This was really good!! My 5yr old son is so picky and he begged me to make it again soon after only a few bites! My only complaint was that it started to get a bit sticky, but I think I may have left it on the heat a little too long because I was waiting for my family to get home! We had it with just peas and garlic bread, but I love the idea of having it with some chicken! Thank you for this recipe!
I tried this with low fat cheese and as I suspected it doesn't really melt well but rather clumps together. I would make it again but not with low fat cheese. The flavor was good.
is there a substitute for the cheese? I couldnt find the 4 cheese blend anywhere 🙁
this looks really good. Can I use whipping cream instead of heavy cream? Couldn't find any heavy cream..thanks!
I can never find heavy cream. Half and half and whipping cream are good substitutes.
Yes, you an use whipping cream instead of heavy cream!
Heavy Cream and Whipping Cream are the same.
I made this dish tonight for dinner. Amazing and I didn't change a thing on the recipe. Absolutely perfect as written! Thanks Julia!!!!
Deb - thank you! Great to hear you enjoyed the recipe!