Recipe: Yummy Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries

Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries.

You can have Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries

1. You need 1 pound (454 g) of penne pasta.
2. Prepare 1 ounce (226 g) of cream cheese.
3. It's 2 TBSP of butter.
4. Prepare 3/4 cup of water.
5. Prepare 1 cup of shaved parmesan cheese.
6. It's 1 of /4 tsp salt.
7. Prepare of Pepper.
8. It's 30 of fresh basil leaves, chopped (or 1 TBSP dry basil).
9. It's 1 TBSP of dry parsley.
10. It's 1/2 cup of pine nuts.
11. Prepare 6 TBSP of dry cranberries.
12. It's 4 clove of garlic, minced.

Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries step by step

1. 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. In a large pot, bring water to a boil and add salt. Cook pasta al dente. Save 1/4 cup of pasta water..
3. 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..
4. Add basil and parsley into the sauce and stir. Keep it low heat..
5. In a medium pan, pour the saved olive oil roasting of the garlic, heat the pan to medium heat, sauté pine nuts until it’s golden brown. Add cranberry for 4 minutes. Turn off the heat..
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😉.