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

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

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. How to make Cream Cheese Pasta.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

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

You can also omit the pasta step. pine nuts and parmesan cheese, uh huh. ricotta cheese and (not pictures) Italian sausage. 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?

Steps 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. Add cranberries in the same pan and sauté for 2 minutes.
  3. Chop the basil.
  4. In a large pot, bring water to a boil and add salt. Cook pasta al dente. Save 1/4 cup of pasta water.
  5. 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.
  6. Add basil and parsley into the sauce and stir.
  7. Add toasted pine nuts and toasted cranberries into the sauce and stir.
  8. 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.
  9. Garnish with roasted garlic on top and enjoy😉

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. But, Aadi still only nibbles on the pine nuts and cranberries a few leaves go in the mouth, but he doesn't seem to complain much about it. Ginger Kale with Pine Nuts and Cranberries Quick Carrot Salad with Raisins, Cranberries, and Nuts Pesto Stuffed Mushrooms with Feta Cheese Crustless.

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