How to Prepare Appetizing Stuffed Lumaconi

Stuffed Lumaconi. Two ways to serve the stuffed lumaconi. Since this baked pasta recipe doesn't involve a sauce apart from the filling, I decided, as an experiment, to serve the lumaconi in two different ways; on a bed of spinach and a bed of caramelized red onions and peppers with roasted cherry tomatoes. Lumaconi Stuffed with Three Cheese and Sausage Filling.

I loved that the giant pasta shells had rough edges on them from the bronze mold they use, so the sauce clings to each bite. They totally reminded of my the type of pasta I've gotten at fancy Italian restaurants. Strain and fill with the sausage and radicchio. You can cook Stuffed Lumaconi using 27 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Stuffed Lumaconi

1. You need of :For Filling:.
2. Prepare of Chicken or beef mince.
3. You need of 3 slice Cream cheese.
4. Prepare of Garlic crushed.
5. Prepare of Cheddar Cheese.
6. It's of Spinach.
7. You need of butter.
8. You need of Pinch of salt.
9. It's of black pepper.
10. Prepare of Salt.
11. You need of 1 tsp Red chilli flakes.
12. It's of Vinegar.
13. You need of Oil.
14. You need of :For White Sauce:.
15. Prepare of 1 tbsp All-purpose Flour.
16. You need of Butter.
17. You need of 1 cup Milk.
18. Prepare of 1/2 tsp White pepper.
19. It's of 1/2 tsp Black pepper.
20. It's of Salt.
21. It's of 4 tbsp Cheddar Cheese.
22. It's of :Other Ingredients:.
23. You need of Lumaconi pasta.
24. You need of Pasta sauce.
25. It's of 1/2 cup Mozarella cheese.
26. It's of Few Black olives.
27. It's of 1/4 tsp Oregano.

Prepare the white sauce: melt some butter in a saucepan with the flour, then stir in the milk, some freshly grated nutmeg and salt and simmer until the white sauce is not too thick. Arrange the lumaconi in the oven-proof. Submitted by Dana Olsen, Calgary, Alberta. These chicken and pistachio-stuffed pasta shells are delicious bathed in a thick, garlicky pasta sauce.

Stuffed Lumaconi step by step

1. Boil Lumaconi pasta according to package instructions..
2. Chopped spinach and saute with butter and pinch of salt and pepper Heat oil in a pan add garlic and saute for 2 minutes add mince and cook till color change. Than add salt, vinegar, chilli flakes, and cook till done. Transfer into a clean bowl and add sauted spinach, cheddar cheese, cream cheese and mix well. Set aside..
3. For white sauce heat butter in a pan add flour and cook for 1 minute then gradually add milk and whisk well in slow flame then add all other ingredients of white sauce and cook till sauce thick..
4. In a baking dish spread Pasta sauce..
5. Stuffed chicken mixture in pasta and layer over pasta sauce..
6. Spread white sauce over pasta. Spread some mozarella cheese on it. Top with olives..
7. Sprinkle some oregano leaves and baked in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes in 180 degrees till cheese melt..
8. Serve hot with your favorite beverage like mojito or margarita..

This dish is a great everyday recipe to have on hand. To serve, place desired number of stuffed shells in casserole dish (a normal dinner portion is four to five shells per person) and top with generous portion of meat or marinara sauce. Lumaconi are pasta in the shape of giant snails (see right) and are so large they are best served stuffed and baked (much like you would canneloni). I got rather excited when I found them as I always love an opportunity to make a baked pasta dish. So, I bought them without hesitation and planned the dish I would make Scotty that night for dinner.