Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries
Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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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 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries:
  1. Make ready 1 pound (454 g) penne pasta
  2. Prepare 1 ounce (226 g) cream cheese
  3. Prepare 2 TBSP butter
  4. Take 3/4 cup water
  5. Prepare 1 and 1/2 cups (120g)Parmesan cheese
  6. Prepare 1 tsp salt
  7. Get Pepper
  8. Take 30 basil leaves, chopped
  9. Get 1 TBSP dry parsley
  10. Make ready 1/2 cup pine nuts
  11. Take 6 TBSP dry cranberries
  12. Get 4 clove garlic, minced
  13. Get Truffle salt

The last time I made this, my boys had requested a cheesy pasta, so I stirred in a generous handful of cheese at the very end and then topped each bowl with more cheese. I added pine nuts as well, just because I love them. The pine nuts added a lovely nutty bite to the noodles and we made it again to share with you. An electric or hand mixer will make this easy.

Instructions to make Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries:
  1. 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.
  2. Toast pine nuts in a small pan, low to medium heat for 2 minutes until golden brown. Set aside.
  3. In the same pan, toast the dried cranberries, low to medium heat for 2 minutes. Set aside as well.
  4. Chop the basil.
  5. In a large pot, bring water to a boil and add salt. Cook pasta al dente. Save 1/4 cup of pasta water.
  6. 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.
  7. Add basil and parsley into the sauce and stir.
  8. Add toasted pine nuts and toasted cranberries into the sauce and stir.
  9. 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.
  10. Garnish with roasted garlic on top and enjoy😉
  11. Once again, truffle salt works very well on this one too😊

Spread the remaining jelly on top of the cream cheese mixture. Combine the dried cranberries, pine nuts, and green onions in a small bowl to mix, then sprinkle evenly on top of the dip. An electric or hand mixer will make this easy. Spread the remaining jelly over top of the cream cheese mixture. Combine the dried cranberries, pine nuts, and green onions in a small bowl to.

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