Artichoke Cream Cheese Pasta Recipes

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add spaghetti and cook until al dente. Drain and keep warm.
• While pasta is cooking, heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Place olive oil, butter, and liquid from artichoke hearts in skillet. Cut artichoke hearts into bite-size pieces. When olive oil mixture is hot, add onion and garlic. Saute until soft and lightly browned. Stir in artichoke hearts and saute until heated through. Season with salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and oregano. Remove from heat and stir in cottage cheese and sour cream. Toss mixture with cooked pasta and top with Parmesan cheese.

Steps:

• Heat half and half,garlic and spices over medium heat.
• Before boiling occurs, reduce heat, add cream cheese (in small pieces), and feta (crumbled) stirring constantly.
• When cheese is smooth, add Parmesan, mushrooms and artichokes. Serve over angel hair pasta.

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the pasta and cook according to the package directions for al dente.
• Meanwhile, blend the drained artichoke hearts, 1/4 cup water, 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper in a high-powered blender until completely smooth. Set aside.
• Heat the olive oil in a large high-sided skillet or braiser over medium heat. Add the roasted red peppers, olives, capers and red pepper flakes and sauté until warmed through, about 2 minutes. Stir in the garlic and a drizzle of oil if needed. Continue to cook, stirring frequently, until the garlic is slightly softened but not brown, about 1 minute. Stir in the blended artichoke hearts, then reduce the heat to low.
• When the pasta is ready, reserve 1 cup of the pasta water, then drain the pasta and add it directly to the skillet with the artichoke sauce. Add about 1/2 cup of the reserved pasta water and toss together until the sauce and water become a cohesive creamy mixture, add more pasta water as needed. Turn off the heat. Add the basil and parsley, toss to combine and serve.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Cook pasta according to directions, drain; return to pot; reserve.
• In lge bowl at med speed beat cream cheese& sour cream until smooth; reduce speed to low; add milk, salt, garlic pwdr and hot sauce.
• Beat until combined, 30 sec; stir in 1 1/2 cups swiss cheese, artichokes and spinach.
• Pour over pasta; toss to combine.
• Spoon pasta mixture into 6 cup shallow baking dish; sprinkle with remaining swiss cheese& parm cheese.
• Bake until heated thru, 10 minutes.
• If desired, to brown cheese broil 1 minute.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 425 degrees and bring a large pot of heavily salted water to a boil. Cook fusilli according to package directions until 3 minutes shy of al dente. Reserve 3 cups pasta water, then drain.
• Meanwhile, in a large oven-proof skillet, heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook scallion whites until softened, about 5 minutes, then add garlic and cook another 1 minute. Stir in red-pepper flakes, and cook another 30 seconds.
• Whisk in 1 1/2 cups pasta water, cream cheese and goat cheese, and simmer, whisking, until smooth. Stir in artichokes, 1 cup fried onions, the mozzarella, the parsley, the dill and the reserved scallion greens, then stir in cooked pasta and black pepper. Add more pasta water if it seems too dry; you want this to be fairly liquid, because the pasta will soak up the sauce as it bakes. Taste and add some salt if needed.
• Top pasta with remaining cup of fried onions and the Parmesan. Bake until filling is bubbly and onions are browned, about 10 to 20 minutes. Serve drizzled with olive oil, and with more red-pepper flakes on the side if you like.

Steps:

• Cook pasta according to package directions. Rinse under cold water and drain well.
• Mix pasta with artichoke hearts.
• Saute mushrooms and onion in butter until soft.
• Mix together pasta and artichoke mixture with mushrooms, Parmesan cheese, sour cream, mayonnaise, white wine and seasonings.
• Pour mixture into a medium casserole dish. Top with tomato slices.
• Cook casserole at 350°F for 25 to 30 minutes or until hot.
• Garnish with fresh oregano if desired.
• *** You can also microwave this dish. The only part you would change is Step 3. You would place mushrooms and onion with butter in a microwave dish. Cover and Microwave at high for 3 minutes Continue to follow directions above and then microwave at High for 8 to 10 minutes.