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cream cheese pasta with fettucce

Fettucce Cream Cheese Pasta Brontese

Alessia
This fettucce pasta is very creamy with a salty, sweet and fresh flavour profile that's just perfect.
Prep Time 20 mins
Cook Time 15 mins
Total Time 35 mins
Course Main Course
Cuisine Italian
Servings 2
Calories 850 kcal

Equipment

  • 1 chopping board
  • 1 chopping knife
  • 1 pan
  • 1 pot
  • 1 blender like Nutribullet

Ingredients
  

  • 250 gr Artisan Fettucce Pasta
  • 1 onion medium
  • 50 gr cubed bacon
  • 40 gr shelled pistachios
  • Belmorso Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • 100 gr cream cheese like Philadelphia original

Instructions
 

  • Prepare the ingredients for this recipe.
    ingredients for cream cheese pasta
  • Peel and cut the onion into small cubes
    preparing onions for cream cheese pasta
  • Transfer to a pan, add a generous drizzle of Belmorso Extra Virgin Olive Oil and sauté.
    drizzling Belmorso extra virgin olive oil on onions
  • Boil the water for your pasta with plenty of water and salt.
  • After a couple minutes, add the bacon to sauté along with the onion.
    sauteing onions and bacon
  • Add the fettucce to boil.
    cooking fettucce pasta
  • In the meantime, blitz your pistachios in a blender until you get a powdery consistency. You can also opt for a coarser consistency if you prefer a lot of crunch.
    blitzing pistachios
  • Add the ground pistachios to the pan with the onions and bacon, along with 8 tablespoons of pasta cooking water. Mix well and leave to cook at low heat for 2 more minutes.
    adding blitzed pistachios to onions and bacon
  • Drain the pasta and save some more cooking water, about half a glass.
    drained fettucce pasta
  • Transfer the pasta to the same pot and add the onions, bacon and pistachios paste. Mix well.
    adding Bronte paste to fettucce
  • Then add the cream cheese, about 3 large tablespoons, and fold it in with the pasta and the rest of the ingredients. Add more pasta water as needed. Continue mixing for 2 to 3 minutes so that the cream cheese heats up and melts fully.
    adding Philadelphia cream cheese to make cream cheese pasta
  • Take the pot off the heat, and serve the cream cheese pasta in your plates.
    tasting cream cheese pasta

Video

Notes

Make sure to serve the pasta quickly and enjoy it right after. This kind of pasta tends to get sticky and dry pretty quickly.
Keyword bacon, creamy, philadelphia, pistachios