What associations do you have in two products - meat and pasta? It is more common for everyone to see in their plate a combination of boiled products with cutlets or meatballs. Or a dish in the form of ordinary pasta in a naval way. But, it turns out, these components can be used to obtain an unusual and very tasty dish. What do we have to do? Use chopped meat or other ingredients to stuff pasta! One of the varieties of large-scale flour products is the skittilli - large shells. They are used as a blank for filling with various fillings. This article provides recommendations on how to cook stuffed Shells pasta. Thanks to originality, practicality and wonderful taste, new dishes will surely please everyone.
How can you stuff pasta?
Oddly enough, this dish can be served on the table not only as hot, but also as a dessert. It all depends on the filling. Here are just a few of the possibilities:
- Meat. Fry minced meat with onions and seasonings, salt to taste. You can also use raw meat in combination with boiled rice.
- Vegetable. Chop, for example, cabbage, carrots, bell pepper and fry quickly until a semi-crisp mass is obtained.
- Mushroom. This filling can be combined with chicken, ham or other meat ingredients.
- Cheese. When using cottage cheese, you will taste something very similar to dumplings. If any cheese is used as the filling, then it is best to include chopped greens in the composition of the mass to get a fresher taste.
- Fruit. Pour boiled water over dried fruits. After swelling, mix them with a little honey. Place shells stuffed with an unusual mass in a deep pan and simmer, pour in sweet sauce and cover. Before serving, pour a delicious dish of hot caramel.
How to Stuff Shellfish Pasta
Whatever you use the filling, the stage of preliminary preparation of flour products remains unchanged. They must be boiled until half cooked in slightly salted water. If the scicillion is used as the basis of dessert, you need to take plain water without adding taste-enhancing components. After boiling the pasta, drop it into a colander to drain the liquid. Stuff pasta after lubricating the products with vegetable oil. This will avoid possible adhesion of shells to each other. Stuffed pasta is usually baked in the oven. First they are laid in one layer, and then poured with sauce. Five to ten minutes before cooking, shells are usually sprinkled with grated cheese. In addition to this conventional method, you can also cook stuffed pasta in a slow cooker. Select the appropriate mode depending on the filling used. If you take the products brought to a half-preparedness, twenty minutes of baking will be enough - and the wonderful dish is ready! Bon Appetit!