Viva Italia!!! Italy is always so inspiring to me, and I’m so lucky to be living so close by this wonderful country. Those simple Italian dishes that are phenomenally good, a beautiful landscape, an interesting language that I’ve been learning for a month now… So so thankful for all those great things.
So like I’ve said a few weeks ago, I started learning the Italian language. I’m helping myself with Youtube tutorials, learning the Italian language in 30 days with Dolce Vita . And in October I’ll start taking a course. I can hardly wait. If that goes well after a year of learning Italian I will start learning Spanish which I also love.
Since we didn’t eat pasta on our last short trip to Tuscany, we had to have them immediately upon arrival home. 🙂 Yeeees, I’m obsessed with pasta, I admit it!
After a long search on our way home, we finally found a good substitute for the “Conchiglioni rigati”. Conchiglioni are shaped as large shells but since we couldn’t found the conchiglioni we replaced them with pasta shaped as large snails :D. We wanted the mentioned shape because we wanted to fill them with a homemade ricotta for which recipe you can find HERE . We also added ricotta, mozzarella, spinach and egg with some spices.
Method
Ingredients
- 8 Lumaconi pasta pieces + some extra because they tend to break during cooking
- 3/4 tbsp olive oil
- 2 cups roughly chopped spinach leaves
- 180g ricotta (we used homemade)
- 1/2 cups mozzarella
- 1 egg
- few fresh roughly chopped basil leaves
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 3/4 cup marinara sauce
Method
- Cook pasta until al dente. Add to a strainer and set aside.
- In a bigger pot heat olive oil. Add spinach and stir occasionally until the leaves start to brown but stop while it iy still green, about 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from heat and let it cool.
- Pour half of the marinara sauce in a medium-sized baking dish
- In medium bowl mix spinach, ricotta, mozzarella, egg, basil, salt and pepper. Stuff your pasta with a generous amount of filling and place them in a baking dish you’ve prepeared in a previous step.
- Cover the baking dish with the remaining sauce and aluminum foil. Bake for 25 minutes at 190 ° C. Remove the foil and continue with the baking until the top begins to brown, about 10-15 minutes.
Photographs: Twofoodiesandacat – Fotografiranje in Stiliranje hrane
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