Asparagus Cream Cheese Fettuccini

Submitted by Boomette

"Only 5 ingredients and just a few minutes to prepare if using fresh pasta. I guess you can use regular pasta but it will take a few more minutes. In the recipe, it's Moutarde a l'ancienne. Recipezaar can't find that. Ancienne means old. So I wrote old mustard. The brand Maille has this mustard."

 

• Ready In: 11mins
• Ingredients: 5
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 5 ounces frozen asparagus
• 1 (350 g) package fresh pasta (fettucini)
• 4 ounces cream cheese with garlic and herbs
• 1 tablespoon old mustard
• 1⁄4 cup pine nuts, toasted

directions

1. Cut the asparagus in 3 pieces each. In a large saucepan with boiling salted water, cook pasta 2 minutes. Add asparagus and keep cooking for 3 minutes or until pasta are al dente. Drain but keep 2/3 cup of the cooking water. Put the pasta and asparagus back in the saucepan.
2. In a little bowl, with a whisk, stir cream cheese, mustard and cooking water. Pour on the pasta and stir well. Garnish each serving with toasted pine nuts and serve now.

Reviews

[Annacia]

This hit the spot last night when I wanted something quick and simple. I skipped the nuts for personal preference. My very first thought was "humm, oh well" but by the third or forth bite the clean simple flavors of the fresh asparagus that I used, the richness of the cream cheese (low-fat) and the taste of the very good quality pasta it's self had won me over and I enjoyed the rest of my dinner. I would make this again but I *might* try it without the mustard for comparisons sake.

 

[morgainegeiser]

I used fresh aspargus, just cooked it first and then added. Also, couldn't find any pine nuts at the supermarket, but they sound like a good addition. Easy and quick to put together.

 

[Realtor by day, Chef by night]

Yum! We enjoyed this one. Thansk, Boomette. Made for 123 tag.

 

[Shelby Jo]

Very tasty. I loved that it was simple and had so few ingredients. I left out the pine nuts just for personal preference but otherwise made as directed. I halved the recipe for just the two of us and it worked nicely. Thanks so much for sharing this recipe! Made for Photo Tag.

 

[BakinBaby]

so simple and so good. I used the low fat cream cheese.grey poupon, skiped the pine nuts ( didn't have any) and it was a great dish. I'll post a picture later. Made for newest tag.