Pasta shells stuffed with minced meat and cheese: recipes with photos

Cannelloni with curd filling: recipe

Pasta in the shape of large shells is called “colciglioni” in Italy.
The shape of the shells is such that they are very convenient to fill with various fillings. And the most popular filling is minced meat. You can use any minced meat for the filling. It can be made from beef, pork or chicken. You can use several types of meat to prepare minced meat, it will turn out even tastier.

To give a better taste, vegetables (onions, garlic, carrots, tomatoes), mushrooms, and grated cheese are added to the minced meat.

Before filling with minced meat, shells are usually boiled until half cooked; they should be a little tough. After filling with filling, the shells are stewed or baked in sauce. You can prepare different sauces; tomato, cream, sour cream, as well as classic bechamel are great.

As mentioned earlier, cannelloni can be filled with a variety of ingredients and fish is no exception. If desired, salmon can be replaced with salmon and any other red fish.

Pasta tubes with this filling turn out very tender and juicy.

Cannelloni – 10 pcs.
Fresh salmon fillet – half kg
Onion – 1.5 pcs.
Spinach – 150 g
Flour – 2 tbsp. l.
Butter – 40 g
Homemade milk – half a liter
Hard cheese – 120 g
Parmesan – 40 g
Olive oil – 2 tbsp. l.
Salt, paprika, garlic, rosemary - at your discretion

Delicate fish tubes We will prepare a delicacy with fish filling according to the following instructions:

Despite the fact that the recipe requires fresh fillets, we often sell red fish frozen. Therefore, if necessary, defrost the product, wash it and dry it with paper towels. Next, chop the fillet into small pieces.
Peel the onion and cut into cubes.
If necessary, defrost the spinach, wash and chop it.
Grate the cheeses, finely chop the parmesan. If you don’t have parmesan on hand, you can only use hard cheese.
Pour the specified amount of olive oil into the pan and fry the onion in it for 5 minutes.
Next, add spinach to the onion and cook the ingredients for a couple more minutes.
Then put the pieces of fish into the frying pan, season all the ingredients with salt and spices. Place a high heat under the container and, stirring the ingredients, fry them for 5 minutes. The filling is ready.
Melt butter in a saucepan.
Be sure to sift the flour and gradually add it to the butter, mix the ingredients until smooth.
Next, pour the milk into the container and season the sauce with all the necessary spices and salt. Cook the liquid until it thickens.
We take our pasta and fill it with fish and vegetables. The filling should be cold or warm, but not hot.
Pour some sauce into the baking dish.
Carefully transfer the cannelloni into a container and pour the remaining sauce over them.
Place the dish in the preheated oven for half an hour.
After the specified time, sprinkle the delicacy with cheeses and cook for another 7 minutes. until a cheese crust forms.
We serve our pasta rolls with red fish hot.

You can cook shells stuffed with minced meat in the oven.

250 gr. large shells;
300 gr. minced meat;
1 carrot;
3 cloves of garlic;
4 tablespoons of sour cream;
3 tablespoons of ketchup;
1 onion;
100 gr. cheese;
1 tomato;
salt, spices, fresh herbs - to taste;
sunflower oil for frying.

Pour some oil into a frying pan, add finely chopped onion, and lightly fry. Then add the minced meat, stir, add a little water and simmer under the lid. Grate the carrots and garlic on a fine grater, send the vegetables to the frying pan where the minced meat is prepared. After 5 minutes, add a tomato cut into small cubes, which has previously been peeled. Season the filling with salt and pepper to taste and cook uncovered until excess liquid has evaporated.

Pasta tubes stuffed with curd filling are perfect for a light dinner or lunch. If desired, you can add parsley, spinach, raisins and even fruit to the cottage cheese.

Cannelloni – 10 pcs.
Homemade cottage cheese – 220 g
Egg – 2 pcs.
Parsley – 1 bunch
Garlic – 3 cloves
Cheese – 120 g
Butter – 30 g
Flour – 2 tbsp.
Homemade milk – half a liter
Paprika, salt, ground black pepper - at your discretion

Sweet cannelloni We will prepare pasta rolls with cottage cheese as follows:

Wash the parsley and dry it, then chop it.
Peel the garlic and grate it.
We also grind the cheese using a grater.
It is better to take homemade cottage cheese, as it is much tastier than store-bought. However, if you want to get a lower-calorie dish, then buy a low-fat store product. Transfer the cottage cheese to a deep plate and mash it a little with a fork.
Add eggs to the cottage cheese and season the ingredients with salt and spices. Mix the contents of the plate and add parsley and garlic to it, mix the filling again.
Melt the butter in a separate container.
Sift the flour and gradually add it to the pan with the butter, mix the ingredients.
Now pour milk into the mixture and season the sauce with salt and spices. Don’t forget that the filling was also flavored with salt and spices; adjust the amount of spices.
Cook the sauce until it becomes thick enough. If you add too much flour and the sauce becomes too thick, simply thin it with milk.
Fill pasta with curd filling. Don't forget that there shouldn't be too much filling.
Pour a little sauce into a rimmed baking dish and place our cannelloni.
Pour the remaining sauce over the pasta and place the pan in the preheated oven for about half an hour.
After the specified time, sprinkle the dish with cheese and bake for another 5 minutes. so that the cheese melts.
The delicacy is best served hot.

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Pasta with juicy meat, delicate sauce and a delicious cheese crust will definitely please your family.

Pasta shells stuffed with minced beef

As the name implies, the base of the minced meat will be either beef or pork. We will cook it in the oven according to the recipe with the photo. Dry pasta will be used.

So, we will need:

minced meat 0.5 kg;
large shell pasta;
bulb onions;
egg;
adjika 15 grams;
tomato paste;
sour cream;
sunflower oil 10 grams;
cheese 150 grams;
spices.

Recipe:

Let's prepare the filling. Add chopped onion, spices, adjika and egg to the minced meat and mix well.
You need to fill the pasta with this minced meat.
Next they are placed in a frying pan.
Prepare the sauce. Mix sour cream with tomato paste as desired, add adjika, oil, spices and a glass of water, but no more.
Pour this sauce over the pasta stuffed with minced meat, so that it is completely covered. Put it all in the oven and simmer until the pasta becomes softer. Grate the cheese and pour it on top, leave for 5 minutes and that’s it.
The dish is ready.

Cannelloni with sweet cottage cheese and nuts: recipe

Cannelloni can also be prepared with a sweet filling. In this case, pasta will serve as a delicious dessert that can be prepared with completely different fillings.

Cannelloni – 10 pcs.
Homemade cottage cheese – 200 g
Almonds – 100 g
Walnuts – 100 g
Sweet and sour apple – 1 pc.
Chicken egg – 2 pcs.
Cream - half a liter
Homemade milk – 100 ml
Butter – 25 g
Granulated sugar – 2 tbsp.
Vanilla, cinnamon, turmeric, sugar - at your discretion

Pasta can be poured with sweet sauce. Let's start preparing a delicious dessert:

It is better to take homemade cottage cheese, however, for those who are on a diet and those who simply want a less calorie dish, you can replace this product with a store-bought one, with a reduced percentage of fat content.
So, grind the cottage cheese with the eggs.
Chop the walnuts a little and turn them into crumbs if desired. Roast the almonds and chop them the same way. Add nuts to the cottage cheese, mix the ingredients.
Wash the apple, peel it, remove the core and cut it into small cubes. We send the fruit to the cottage cheese and nuts, mix the contents of the container again.
Now season the filling with spices and, if desired, sugar. If necessary, replace sugar with honey or jam.
Fill the cannelloni with curd filling.
Grease the container in which we will bake the dessert with butter and place the pasta into it.
In a separate container, lightly whip the cream with granulated sugar, add milk to the mixture, and mix gently.
Pour the sweet mixture over the cannelloni and place the pan in the preheated oven for half an hour.
The readiness of the dish in this case will be determined by the readiness of the pasta. The cooking time may need to be increased by 10-15 minutes.

Cannelloni is easy to prepare, since the whole process consists of preparing the filling and directly baking the pasta. Another advantage of this dish is that the delicacy can be prepared from a variety of products, from meat and fish to fruits and cottage cheese. Don’t be afraid to try and experiment, believe me, this dish will not leave even the most fastidious gourmet indifferent.

What is important to know to prepare delicious stuffed pasta

The easiest way to prepare stuffed shells is in a frying pan.

200 gr. large shells;
170 gr. minced meat;
50 gr. Luke;
1 clove of garlic;
100 gr. sour cream;
50 gr. ketchup or any other tomato sauce;
10 gr. flour;
frying oil;
salt, ground black pepper, thyme - to taste;
fresh herbs for decoration.

Pour 1.5 liters of water into the pan and bring to a boil. Put salt in boiling water and throw in shells. Cook for 4 minutes. The shells should become softer, but not cooked until done. Drain the broth through a colander. And pour oil over the pasta and stir. This is necessary so that the shells do not stick together.

Season the minced meat with salt and pepper, mix, then fry the minced meat in a frying pan until cooked, adding a little water. Cook, stirring constantly. We stuff the shells with the prepared minced meat.

Pour some oil into a frying pan and fry thinly sliced onion in it. Then lay out the prepared stuffed shells and pour in the sauce. To prepare the sauce, mix sour cream with ketchup and flour. Then add a little cold water to the sauce so that it acquires the required consistency.

Cook the shells in a frying pan, covered, for about 15 minutes. Make sure that the sauce does not boil too much. Serve the dish, sprinkled with thyme and garnished with fresh herbs.

Cooking methods

There are two ways to prepare stuffed pasta:

In the first case, raw pasta is used, which greatly simplifies the cooking process.
When preparing the second recipe, the pasta is pre-boiled a little before baking it in the oven.

Any of the recipes involves the use of sauce to give the dish a unique taste and aroma. To prepare stuffed pasta, use a choice of the following types, which can highlight the taste and give a special aroma:

tomato sauce;
Bechamel sauce.

Pasta with mushrooms

If you don’t want meat, you can easily replace it with mushrooms.

The perfect weekend dish.

Another delicious option is stuffed shells in a creamy sauce with mushrooms. We will prepare minced meat from chicken breasts.

400 gr. chicken breast fillet;
600 ml water;
5 black peppercorns;
2 bay leaves;
200 gr. Luke;
150 gr. carrots;
2 eggs;
250 gr. large shells;
100 gr. champignons;
100 ml cream;
80 gr. cheese;
salt, ground black pepper, dill to taste.

Let's boil the water. Add salt to boiling water to taste and lower the chicken breasts. When the water boils again, remove the foam and add peppercorns and bay leaves. Cook the breast until done. Then let it cool.

Due to the ingredients included in the dish, this recipe has an unusual taste and special aroma. Pasta with mushrooms will definitely appeal to those who like to try something new and unusual.

What you will need:

250 gr. cannelloni (tube-shaped pasta);
300 gr. champignons;
1 onion;
250 gr. hard cheese;
200 ml. medium fat cream;
35 gr. butter;
one teaspoon each of paprika and turmeric;
add pepper to taste.

1. Boil the pasta over medium heat for 5 minutes until half cooked. Rinse under cold water, add butter.

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2.Peel the onion and chop finely. Put butter in a frying pan and sauté the onion in it until golden brown.

3.Finely chop fresh mushrooms.

4.Add turmeric and paprika to the onion and mix thoroughly. Add mushrooms. Fry for a few more minutes over low heat.

5.Place the minced meat in pieces onto the frying pan. Fry over low heat until all the liquid has evaporated. Do not cover with a lid. The minced meat should take on a golden brown hue.

6.After the filling is completely ready, set it aside so that it does not cool down.

7.Fill the cannelloni with the resulting mixture and place on a baking sheet.

8. Pour in cream, sprinkle with cheese, grated on a fine grater.

9.Bake at 200 degrees. In 15 minutes the dish will be ready to eat.

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To make conchiglioni deliciously, you need to know how to stuff pasta.

It is recommended to cook pasta in pre-salted water. If they are further baked in the oven, they should be slightly undercooked. And you need to fill the pasta with a slightly cooled filling and a small spoon.

A nutritious and beautiful dish.

Portioned or disposable forms for cooking are ideal, then the pasta will retain its appearance and will not fall apart.

The presence of sauce or filling is a must. The products should be well soaked during baking. And, of course, cheese, because this is an Italian dish.

Practical tips and advice

In order to deliciously cook shells with minced meat in a frying pan, you should use the advice of chefs and housewives:

Chefs recommend adding salt to the water in which large shell-shaped pasta is cooked.
The pasta must be placed tightly together so that during the cooking process they do not become overcooked and lose their shape.
It is best to use wide plates for serving.
Macaroni and cheese are incredibly delicious. You can put grated hard cheese on the finished dish, which will have time to melt on the hot product.

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A detailed recipe will allow you to deliciously cook shell pasta with minced meat in a frying pan at home.

Cooking with tomatoes

Stuffed shells in a slow cooker turn out great. This recipe does not require pre-cooking the pasta or frying the minced meat. Products are used raw.

200 gr. large shells;
300 gr. minced meat;
1.5 tablespoons of sour cream;
1.5 tablespoons of tomato sauce;
1 onion;
2 cloves of garlic;
1-2 measuring cups of water from a multicooker;
salt, a mixture of ground pepper to taste.

Peel and chop the onion and garlic. You can grate or chop the vegetables in a blender. Mix chopped vegetables with raw minced meat, add pepper and salt, mix thoroughly.

We fill dry shells with raw minced meat, we try to put more minced meat, since its volume decreases during the cooking process. Place the stuffed shells in a bowl. If we cook a lot of pasta, then lay out the shells in two or even three layers.

Prepare the sauce: mix sour cream with tomato sauce, add salt and a mixture of ground peppers. Add water; the sauce should be liquid. Pour the sauce into the bowl. There should be enough sauce to almost completely cover the shells. Close the lid of the device and cook the dishes in the “stew” mode for 40-50 minutes. Serve the shells, pouring the sauce over them.

Pasta with minced meat takes on a completely different taste when supplemented with fresh or canned tomatoes. The dish turns out more juicy and flavorful.

To prepare this dish you will need:

pasta (preferably vermicelli) – 0.4 kg;
onion – 1 head;
minced meat – 300 g;
salt;
fresh tomatoes – 2 pcs.;
pepper;
vegetable oil – 15 −20 g;
fresh greens.

Step-by-step technology:

Boil vermicelli according to the instructions on the package. After this, the pasta should be drained in a colander and rinsed well.
Cut the peeled onions and tomatoes into small cubes.
Heat the oil well in a frying pan. Fry vegetables in it for 5 - 7 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Add minced meat. Season with salt and lightly pepper. Mix thoroughly, breaking up pieces of meat with a spatula.
Pour boiled pasta into almost finished meat. Mix again. Simmer covered for several minutes on low heat.
Sprinkle the finished dish with chopped herbs. Stir again and let stand for another 3 - 4 minutes so that the products can exchange flavors.

If desired, during frying the dish can be supplemented with your favorite seasonings and spices. This will make its taste more integral, and its smell rich in various aromas.

Recipe 1. Large shells with minced meat in the oven

Ingredients

minced meat – 400 g;

Russian cheese – 100 g;

tomato paste - two spoons;

large shells - packaging;

Cooking method

1. Place a large pot of drinking water over moderate heat. Bring to a boil. Pour the shells into it and cook until half cooked. Drain in a colander and cool.

2. Remove the skin from the onion. Rinse it and finely chop it. Combine onion with minced meat. Season everything with spices, add salt and knead thoroughly with your hands until smooth.

3. Fill the shells with the meat filling and place in an ovenproof dish in a single layer.

4. In a deep cup, dilute the tomato paste with drinking water. Add salt and season with spices. Stir. Pour the tomato sauce over the shells and place the pan in the oven, preheated to 180 C. Bake for half an hour. Remove the pan, sprinkle the dish with grated cheese and leave for another five minutes.

Choosing pasta

You should be careful when choosing this ingredient, because properly selected meat will highlight the taste of the pasta and give it a special aroma.

Give preference only to minced pork and beef.
It must be turned in a meat grinder at least twice.
It’s not so easy to buy one in a store, but making it yourself won’t be difficult.
Homemade minced meat will allow you to be completely confident in the high quality of the product, because prepared with your own hands, in compliance with the correct proportions, it will perfectly highlight the taste of the pasta and sauce in this dish.
Large pasta “Rakushki” is especially popular in Russian cuisine. They are perfect for making this delicious minced meat dish. It doesn’t take much time to prepare the dish, but the taste will pleasantly surprise you.

How to cook stuffed pasta in the oven? To begin with, you should purchase the products. There are several special varieties designed specifically for stuffing. Most often they are made in the form of shells, cannelloni and tubes.

Such pasta products are not only large in size, but also have a suitable dough thickness. It is recommended to lightly boil them before cooking. Such pasta is stuffed with filling, seasoned with sauce, and then baked in the oven.

Stuffed pasta shells with lecho

But, despite its simplicity, such a dish is not a shame to put on the festive table. Large shells will look impressive on the holiday table, especially if you serve some sauce with them. Let's look at the recipe with photos.

All you need is a little:

Ground beef,
shells,
lecho,
mayonnaise.

Recipe:

Fill the shells with minced meat and place in a deep bowl, pre-greased with oil.
For one glass of water, take approximately 150 grams of lecho and two tablespoons of mayonnaise, mix it all thoroughly.
Pour over the shells.
Place the dish in the oven.
When the minced meat and pasta are ready, you can start eating them.

In tomato sauce

Stuffed shell pasta in sour cream sauce with cheese has a delicate taste.

200 gr. large shells;
200 gr. sour cream;
300 gr. minced meat;
3 onions;
2 carrots;
150 ml water;
150 gr. cheese;
salt, black pepper to taste.

Boil the shells in salted water until al dente, that is, they should remain a little hard inside.

Peel the onions and carrots, grate them or grind them in a blender. Fry vegetables until soft. Mix fried vegetables with raw minced meat. Salt the minced meat and season it with spices to taste. Fill the pasta with minced meat and place in a single layer in a greased baking dish.

Shell pasta can be stuffed not only with meat, but also with minced chicken. Let's cook them with bechamel sauce.

20 pieces of large shells;
300 gr. minced chicken;
1 onion;
2 glasses of milk;
2 tablespoons flour;
2 tablespoons butter;
1 bunch of fresh dill;
salt, nutmeg to taste;
vegetable oil for frying.

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The shells need to be boiled until half cooked by dipping them in salted boiling water for 7 minutes. Then place the pasta in a colander to drain the liquid.

Peel the onion, chop it finely and fry it in vegetable oil. Then add the minced chicken and fry it along with the onions. Add salt and pepper. When the minced meat is ready, season it with finely chopped herbs.

Let's prepare the bechamel sauce. To do this, melt the butter in a saucepan, add flour and mix. Fry the flour for a minute. Then pour in the milk in a thin stream, stirring constantly. It is important to ensure that there are no lumps. Salt the sauce, add nutmeg. Cook for 5 minutes on low heat.

Place some of the bechamel sauce into the pan. Then fill the shells with minced meat and place them on the sauce. Pour the remaining gravy on top and place the pan in the oven. Bake for 20-30 minutes at 180 degrees.

Ham and eggs are not foods that would surprise us. However, having prepared the cannelloni filling from them and tried this dish, you will see that even from such familiar ingredients you can prepare something very tasty and unusual.

Cannelloni – 10 pcs.
Tomatoes – 4 pcs.
Ham – 200 g
Chicken eggs – 2 pcs.
Hard cheese – 300 g
Butter – 20 g
Sunflower oil – 3 tbsp.
Tomato sauce – 3 tbsp.
Boiling water – 100 ml
Parsley, dill - 1 bunch each
White wine – 4 tbsp.
Salt, granulated sugar, Italian herbs, ground black pepper - at your discretion

Dish with sauce The dish is prepared as follows:

Wash the tomatoes and make a cross-shaped cut on each one. Then place the tomatoes in boiling water for 1 minute. and after they have cooled, remove the skin from them. Grind into small cubes or three on a grater to obtain a porridge-like mixture.
Beat eggs with salt.
Chop the ham into small pieces.
Grate the cheese.
Wash the greens, dry and chop.
In a separate deep plate, mix beaten eggs, meat and 200 g of grated cheese. Mix the contents of the plate and season it with spices and salt, mix again. The filling is ready.
To prepare the sauce, pour the specified amount of sunflower oil into the frying pan and wait until it warms up.
Add chopped tomatoes to the pan and cook for 7 minutes.
Next, add wine, boiling water and sauce to the tomatoes, season with the necessary spices and salt. Bring the sauce to a boil and turn off the heat under the container
Stuff the cannelloni with filling.
Grease a baking container with butter and place our pasta into it.
Fill the cannelloni with tomato sauce and place the pan in a preheated oven for half an hour.
After the specified time, sprinkle the dish with the remaining cheese and herbs and cook for another 5-7 minutes.

Shells stuffed with minced meat in tomato sauce are an improvisation on the theme of pasta Bolognese. Try to cook the dish, you will definitely like it.

200 gr. large shells;
300 gr. minced meat;
100 gr. zucchini;
2 tablespoons sour cream;
4 champignons;
5 tomatoes;
salt, vegetable oil, Italian herbs seasoning - to taste.

Boil the shells in boiling salted water for five minutes. Fry the minced meat in vegetable oil, stirring constantly so that it remains crumbly. Separately, fry the champignons, cut into small pieces. When the mushrooms are ready, add half of the grated zucchini to them. Fry for another 5 minutes, stirring.

Mix the fried minced meat with mushrooms and zucchini, add sour cream, mix and season with spices to taste.

Grind the tomatoes in a blender or grate them. Pour the tomato mass into a saucepan, add grated zucchini. Simmer over low heat for about 20 minutes. Salt, pepper and season with dry Italian herbs.

Fill the shells with the prepared filling. Place them in a greased form. If after filling the shells there is still some minced meat filling left, then add it to the tomato sauce. Pour the sauce over the pasta with minced meat and bake them in the oven at 180 degrees for about half an hour.

Stuffed shells with cream

Stuffed shells cooked with cream are nourishing, tasty and tender.

200 gr. large shells;
300 gr. minced meat;
200 gr. tomatoes;
150 gr. Luke;
500 ml cream;
50 gr. cheese;
50 ml vegetable oil;
salt and pepper to taste.

Boil the shells in salted water for five minutes, add water, and let the pasta cool slightly.

Chop the onion, it needs to be cut very thin. Fry the onion in vegetable oil. Then add the minced meat and fry, stirring, until the meat changes color. Then add to the minced tomato, which has been peeled and cut into small cubes.

Continue frying for another 5-7 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. At the very end, add finely chopped greens. Let the filling cool slightly.

Fill the boiled shells with minced meat and vegetables and place them in a mold greased with vegetable oil. Fill the pasta with cream and add a little salt.

Cover the pan with foil and cook at 180 degrees for 30 minutes. Then take out the pan, remove the foil and sprinkle the macaroni with cheese. Place back in the oven until the cheese melts.

With Bechamel sauce

Béchamel sauce is ideal for lasagne and stuffed shells baked in the oven with minced meat. Let's cook. Recipe with photo attached.

Of course, the recipes for this dish have Italian roots. But the variations of our housewives are in no way inferior to their brothers from abroad. Not everyone can afford to go to a real Italian restaurant, but everyone can go to the store and buy a pack of pasta, from which they can cook a delicious and wonderful dish.

To do this you need to take:

pasta,
ground meat,
tomatoes,
adjika,
garlic,
cheese,
oil.

And the sauce consists of:

oils,
flour
milk (cream).

Recipe:

Melt the butter in a frying pan, add flour, stir until smooth.
While adding milk, stir gently.
After boiling, cook a little. The sauce is ready .
Fry the garlic and remove it, put the minced meat in this oil.
Chop the peeled tomatoes, add to the minced meat, and add adjika.
At the same time, slightly boil the shell pasta.
When cool, stuff them with minced meat.
Lay out and pour over the sauce, add cheese and place in the oven for 25-30 minutes at 180 degrees.
Stuffed pasta in sauce is ready (as you can see in the photo, they are very appetizing).

Pasta stuffed with giblets

Ingredients:

300 g cannelloni,
400 g giblets,
1 turnip onion,
70 g sour cream,
1 egg
100 g ketchup,
70 g hard cheese,
vegetable and butter.

Boil the cannelloni until half cooked. For stuffed pasta, prepare minced meat: chop chicken giblets, finely chop onion, put in a frying pan with vegetable oil, mix and fry. Salt and pepper. After that, this mixture must be passed through a meat grinder and filled with pasta.

FILLING OPTIONS:

Of course, such dishes can be varied. It’s not for nothing that they say that you can eat pasta three times a day if you serve it with different sauces. Well, you can serve stuffed pasta in the oven not only with different sauces, but also with different fillings. And also serve them with all kinds of salads.

With mushrooms

Take two hundred grams of canned mushrooms and fifteen grams of dried ones. Cut the first ones, and pre-wash the second ones, fill them with water, and leave them for a while. Drain the liquid and chop the mushrooms. And then simmer in a frying pan with oil until the water completely disappears. Now mix all the mushrooms with cottage cheese, which you need to take two hundred and fifty grams, salt and pepper. Boil and stuff the shells. Grease a baking sheet and place the pasta on it. Pour about six hundred grams of tomato sauce. Sprinkle cheese on top. Place the pasta stuffed with minced meat in the oven and bake for about half an hour at 200 degrees. When you serve, you can garnish with herbs.

With fish

We will make minced meat from cod fillet, one egg and one yolk, beets, onions, and bread. We pass it all through a meat grinder. It is better if the minced meat is small and small. Add eggs, salt, spices to it, mix and leave in the refrigerator for about twenty minutes. Just at this time we prepare the sauce. For it we need frozen krill meat, sour cream and cream, cheese and butter. Melt the latter in a frying pan, add the krill and simmer over low heat for about five minutes, then add sour cream, add cheese and simmer for another three minutes. We compact the minced meat into tubes, place the stuffed pasta in a saucepan or frying pan with high sides and pour boiling water over it. Let it cook until done. After that, put it on a plate and pour the sauce over it. Best served hot.

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