Cream Cheese Pasta - 10 Minute Meal!

Quick and simple cream cheese pasta on a plate with peas and parsley on top. Ready to serve.

5 from 39 votes

Cream Cheese Pasta - 10 Minute Meal!

This Cream Cheese Pasta recipe is a super speedy 10 minute midweek meal. Add whatever vegetables or meat you have in the fridge and you're good to go.

Cook Time10

Total Time10

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Family Food

Servings: Servings

Author: Sarah Rossi

Ingredients

300 g Dried pasta See Note 1.
1 tsp Olive oil See Note 2.
250 g Bacon Cut into small pieces.
1 Onion Peeled and finely chopped. See Note 3.
2 Cloves Garlic Peeled and finely chopped. See Note 3.
3 Courgettes Trimmed and cut into small pieces.
200 g Petit pois Frozen.
250 g Cream cheese
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
50 g Parmesan Cheese Grated. Optional.

Instructions

Put the pasta into boil in a large pan of salted water.
Whilst the pasta is cooking, in a large saucepan or deep frying pan, heat the oil and fry the bacon, onion, garlic and courgettes until softened and starting to brown. (This will take about the same time as the pasta.)
3 - 4 Minutes before the pasta is due to finish cooking, add in the peas with the boiling pasta to cook in the same water.
Take the pan with the fried vegetables. Stir in the cream cheese, salt and pepper, Parmesan cheese and a couple of ladles of the water from the pasta pan. Stir until smooth.
Drain the pasta and add to the vegetables and sauce.

Notes

Note 1
Whichever shape of dried pasta you prefer is fine. Check the cooking time on the packet.

Note 2
If I'm using a very fatty bacon, like pancetta lardons, I leave out the oil as it's not needed.

Note 3
I use pre prepared frozen, chopped here. An onion weighs about 150g, so replace with that pre chopped weight. Garlic is about 5g per clove so I use 10g (2 teaspoons).

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