Steps to Prepare Perfect Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries

Hello everybody, it is John, 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. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries:

1. Prepare penne pasta
2. Get cream cheese
3. Take butter
4. Get water
5. Take shaved parmesan cheese
6. Make ready /4 tsp salt
7. Get Pepper
8. Make ready fresh basil leaves, chopped (or 1 TBSP dry basil)
9. Make ready dry parsley
10. Get pine nuts
11. Make ready dry cranberries
12. Make ready garlic, minced

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 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.
2. 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.
3. Add basil and parsley into the sauce and stir. Keep it low heat.
4. 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.
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. 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.
7. Garnish with roasted garlic on top and enjoy😉

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