How to Make Speedy Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have 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. Make ready 1 pound (454 g) penne pasta
2. Make ready 1 ounce (226 g) cream cheese
3. Prepare 2 TBSP butter
4. Make ready 3/4 cup water
5. Make ready 1 and 1/2 cups (120g)Parmesan cheese
6. Prepare 1 tsp salt
7. Get Pepper
8. Take 30 basil leaves, chopped
9. Take 1 TBSP dry parsley
10. Make ready 1/2 cup pine nuts
11. Get 6 TBSP dry cranberries
12. Take 4 clove garlic, minced
13. Take Truffle salt

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😊

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