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

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Moroccan Skillet Chicken with Pine Nut CouscousEveryDay with Rachael. By adding cream cheese straight to pasta it just ends up dry and clumpy. Even thinning it out with milk doesn't particularly help.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

Pine nuts are toasted to golden, right there on the stovetop. It takes pine nuts from soggy soft, to fragrant with a bit of bite. Toasting these delicate nuts in the oven? I burn them without fail so… let's.

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😊

When it foams, throw in the pine nuts and cook, shaking the pan, until they turn brown and toasty. Turn off heat and squeeze the lemon into the pan, cupping For those who like plain pasta or pasta with just butter and cheese, set aside a good amount in serving bowls. For others, pour the pine nuts and. When it gets bubbly add the cranberries and spinach. Immediately toss and turn the spinach with long tongs until it starts to wilt and cooks down a.

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