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Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries Recipe
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries:
- Make ready 1 pound (454 g) penne pasta
- Prepare 1 ounce (226 g) cream cheese
- Take 2 TBSP butter
- Get 3/4 cup water
- Take 1 cup shaved parmesan cheese
- Prepare 1 /4 tsp salt
- Prepare Pepper
- Make ready 30 fresh basil leaves, chopped (or 1 TBSP dry basil)
- Make ready 1 TBSP dry parsley
- Get 1/2 cup pine nuts
- Prepare 6 TBSP dry cranberries
- Get 2 clove garlic, minced
Steps to make Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries:
- Roast garlic. Mince garlic finely. In a small pan, with no heat, pour 2TBSP 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.
- 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 and pepper and cook for another 2 minutes. Lower the heat to low.
- Add basil and parsley into the sauce and stir. Keep it low heat.
- Toast pine nuts in a medium pan, low to medium heat for 2 minutes until golden brown. Add cranberries in the same pan and sauté for 2 minutes. Turn off the heat.
- In a large pot, bring water to a boil and add salt. Cook pasta al dente. Save 1/4 cup of pasta water.
- In the same pot you boiled pasta, put back the cooked pasta. Add the sauce and roasted cranberries and pine nuts. Mix with saved olive oil from ➊, and saved 1/4 cup of pasta water and mix them well.
- Garnish with roasted garlic on top and enjoy😉
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