Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. 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 will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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.
Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. 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:
- Get 1 pound (454 g) penne pasta
- Prepare 1 ounce (226 g) cream cheese
- Make ready 2 TBSP butter
- Prepare 3/4 cup water
- Take 1 and 1/2 cups (120g)Parmesan cheese
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Prepare Pepper
- Prepare 30 basil leaves, chopped
- Prepare 1 TBSP dry parsley
- Make ready 1/2 cup pine nuts
- Take 6 TBSP dry cranberries
- Make ready 4 clove garlic, minced
- Get Truffle salt
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Steps to make Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries:
- 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.
- Toast pine nuts in a small pan, low to medium heat for 2 minutes until golden brown. Set aside.
- In the same pan, toast the dried cranberries, low to medium heat for 2 minutes. Set aside as well.
- Chop the basil.
- In a large pot, bring water to a boil and add salt. Cook pasta al dente. Save 1/4 cup of pasta water.
- 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.
- Add basil and parsley into the sauce and stir.
- Add toasted pine nuts and toasted cranberries into the sauce and stir.
- 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.
- Garnish with roasted garlic on top and enjoy😉
- Once again, truffle salt works very well on this one too😊
I burn them without fail so… let's. Did you know that pine nuts are actually taken from pine cones? Well, thanks to Chef Jason Wyrick, I not only know this, but I also have a delicious new Soaking the pine nuts in tea softens them, which helps create a smoother cheese alternative. 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.
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