Easiest Way to Prepare Quick Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

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