Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, cream cheese pasta with pine nuts and cranberries. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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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 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

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

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

Steps 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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