Stuffed Lumaconi
Stuffed Lumaconi

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, stuffed lumaconi. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Stuffed Lumaconi is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Stuffed Lumaconi is something that I have loved my entire life.

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.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook stuffed lumaconi using 27 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Stuffed Lumaconi:
  1. Make ready :For Filling:
  2. Take 250 gm Chicken or beef mince
  3. Prepare 3 slice Cream cheese
  4. Get 1 tsp Garlic crushed
  5. Get 4 tbsp Cheddar Cheese
  6. Prepare 1/2 cup Spinach
  7. Get 1 tbsp butter
  8. Take Pinch of salt
  9. Make ready Pinch black pepper
  10. Get To taste Salt
  11. Prepare 1 tsp Red chilli flakes
  12. Make ready 1 tsp Vinegar
  13. Make ready 3 tbsp Oil
  14. Get :For White Sauce:
  15. Make ready 1 tbsp All-purpose Flour
  16. Get 2 tbsp Butter
  17. Make ready 1 cup Milk
  18. Take 1/2 tsp White pepper
  19. Get 1/2 tsp Black pepper
  20. Prepare To taste Salt
  21. Make ready 4 tbsp Cheddar Cheese
  22. Take :Other Ingredients:
  23. Make ready 1/2 packet Lumaconi pasta
  24. Make ready 1 cup Pasta sauce
  25. Take 1/2 cup Mozarella cheese
  26. Get Few Black olives
  27. Prepare 1/4 tsp Oregano

Lumaconi is great for stuffing but the pasta did not double in size upon boiling as anticipated but seemed larger at the end of baking. 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.

Instructions to make Stuffed Lumaconi:
  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.

Lumaconi, also known as lumache, are big ridged pasta shells shaped like snail shells which are usually stuffed with a variety of fillings and then very often baked either relatively dry or covered in a sauce. (see my recipe for beautiful stuffed and baked lumaconi! ) I love them because they are big enough to take quite a lot of filling inside. Stuffed Main Dishes Giant Stuffed Pasta Shells Giant Stuffed Pasta Shells. A stuffed pasta shell recipe fit for a crowd. Today's recipe is especially therapeutic, because it is made with lumaconi pasta. Lumaconi means "large snail", and these comically huge.

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