Recipe: Maitake and Gorgonzola Cheese Penne

Here’s a recipe from our archives.

Steve Farrar is the Chief Operating Officer of Golden Gourmet Mushrooms. He first shared this recipe for Maitake and Gorgonzola Cheese Penne on December 6, 2008.

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7 ozs Golden Gourmet Maitake mushrooms

8 ozs penne pasta

2 strips bacon

1 cup milk

1 cup fresh cream

4 ozs Gorgonzola cheese

3 Tablespoons Parmesan cheese

1/4 tsp butter

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 tsp parsley

Boil pasta. Break up maitake mushroom cluster into pieces with fingers. Cut bacon into 1/2-inch. Fry bacon until bacon until rendered. Add milk, fresh cream and Gorgonzola cheese. Saute at low temperature until cheese is melted

Add and mix mushrooms, Parmesan cheese, butter and salt.