Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
By adding cream cheese straight to pasta it just ends up dry and clumpy. Even thinning it out with milk doesn't particularly help. So, meet your new best friend.
Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries:
- Make ready 1 pound (454 g) penne pasta
- Get 1 ounce (226 g) cream cheese
- Make ready 2 TBSP butter
- Take 3/4 cup water
- Make ready 1 and 1/2 cups (120g)Parmesan cheese
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Prepare Pepper
- Take 30 basil leaves, chopped
- Take 1 TBSP dry parsley
- Take 1/2 cup pine nuts
- Make ready 6 TBSP dry cranberries
- Get 4 clove garlic, minced
- Take Truffle salt
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Steps to make Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries:
- Roast garlic. Mince garlic finely. In a small pan, with no heat, pour large amount of olive and add garlic. Now turn the heat to low-medium and roast the garlic slowly 3 minutes. Once it’s golden brown, remove the garlic from the oil and set aside. Save the oil.
- Toast pine nuts in a small pan, low to medium heat for 2 minutes until golden brown. Set aside.
- In the same pan, toast the dried cranberries, low to medium heat for 2 minutes. Set aside as well.
- Chop the basil.
- In a large pot, bring water to a boil and add salt. Cook pasta al dente. Save 1/4 cup of pasta water.
- Making the sauce. In a large pot, medium heat, add 3/4 cup water, butter and cream cheese and stir consistently until it’s melted and bubbled, 3 minutes. Add parmesan cheese and salt (1tsp)and pepper and cook for another 2 minutes. Lower the heat to low.
- Add basil and parsley into the sauce and stir.
- Add toasted pine nuts and toasted cranberries into the sauce and stir.
- Turn the sauce pan to medium-high heat, add saved olive oil from ➊, cooked pasta, saved 1/4 cup of pasta water from ❺, and mix them well.
- Garnish with roasted garlic on top and enjoy😉
- Once again, truffle salt works very well on this one too😊
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