Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a creative dish, cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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.

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

Pine nuts are toasted to golden, right there on the stovetop. It takes pine nuts from soggy soft, to fragrant with a bit of bite. Toasting these delicate nuts in the oven? I burn them without fail so… let's.

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😊

The pine nuts and cranberries give it great festive colors and you can top it with a vegan parmesan cheese! To make salad dressing blend lemon zest, juice, olive oil and mustard until vinaigrette is thick and creamy. 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. Combine double cream, clarified butter, butter, nutmeg, salt and pepper in a saucepan; heat thoroughly.

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