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Thermomix Recipes for TM5 and TM31 => Main Dishes => Topic started by: Cornish Cream on July 21, 2010, 08:47:36 pm
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Cheese and Bacon Stuffed Pasta Shells.
Serves 4
150g Conchiglioni Rigati ( large pasta shells)
50g bread torn or cubed roughly
handful parsley(approx 4 tbsp)
1 tbsp olive oil
1 onion, cut into ¼’s
2 cloves garlic, peeled
4 rashers smoky bacon, chopped
200g cream cheese
1 tsp chopped fresh rosemary
500g tomato passata
150g ball of buffalo mozzarella cheese.
Cook the pasta in boiling water for 8 minutes. Drain and cool.
In the TM bowl put the parsley and bread and turbo about 4x until finely chopped. Put this aside(I find a dry pastry brush get out most of the crumbs)
Drop the garlic on to running blades speed 8.
Drop the onion on to running blades speed 5.
Scrape down with the spatula.
Add the olive oil and cook 100c/speed spoon reverse/ 3minutes.
Add the bacon and cook 100c/ speed spoon reverse/ 4 minutes
Add the crumbs/parsley, cream cheese and season with black pepper. Mix spoon speed reverse/ 30 seconds, if needed stop the machine and stir in with the spatula.
Pour the passata into a dish and stir through the rosemary. Divide the mixture between the cooked pasta shell and sit tightly on the sauce(I stuffed 20 cooked pasta shells very generously)
Tear the mozzarella into pieces and scatter over the shells..
Bake @ 200c/180c fan for 30 minutes
I think this could easily be made into a vegetarian dish if chopped mushrooms are used instead of chopped bacon.
I hand chopped the bacon because if chopped in the TM it gets wrapped around the blade.
This is adapted from recipe by Silvana Franco who demonstrated it on the TV programme “This Morning”
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members' comments
Rubyslippers - We couldn't find the large shells where we went shopping so DH decided that cannelloni would be a good choice. I am NEVER using cannelloni again! That stuff is evil. I will either try the roll your own version or find the shells. Three out of four of my family eating this meal enjoyed it. Thank you CC.
cookie - Rubyslippers, when I make cannelloni recipes I use fresh lasagna sheets and roll them, so much easier.
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Yum these sound lovely, thanks for sharing. :D
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Looks great! I have never seen those giant pasta shells, I suppose an Italian shop would have them?
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Thanks for this recipe Cornish Cream. I do a similar one using spinach, ricotta and cottage cheese - they are lovely for vegetarians and I was wondering whether I could cook the finished dish in the varoma (when I got around to converting it for the forum).
CarolynJ, haven't seen the big shells in Foodland but Coles or Woolworths may stock them. I get mine from Farmer Jo's market here in Port Adelaide but I am sure you will find them in any specialty shop.
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Judy I have the same recipe as you. DH isn't fond of them so I will give these a try. They look my sort of food.
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love the way you are converting recipes from different sources CC ;D (and they are always so yummy) will have to give this a go maybe tonight
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looks delicious! Never seen those big shells before! Will have to keep an eye out!
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That looks delish! Will have to try it out one day.
PS - what's passata?
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Passata is pureed tomato rubyslippers, you buy it in those tall 700ml jars here in Australia. MJ has a nice recipe here if you want to make it yourself
http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=2193.0 (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=2193.0)
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The spinach,ricotta and cottage sound good Judy.The varoma is a great idea,I'm still amazed what you can do it.Probably would have to brown the top under the grill to fool my DH :-))
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Thanks Judy :)
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Sprinkle some paprika over them before you cook them. That occasionally fools my DH. ;)
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OMG I have to try these. YUM!
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Good work CC - they do look superb. We can get large shells here in Melbourne. Sometimes even in the supermarkets. They just take time to fill - need to have the kids (or nonna) helping
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Made these tonight.
We couldn't find the large shells where we went shopping, so DH decided that cannelloni would be a good choice.
I am NEVER using cannelloni again! That stuff is evil. I will either try the roll your own version, or find the shells.
Three out of four of my family eating this meal enjoyed it. Thank you CC.
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I'm glad that some of your family enjoyed this rubyslippers.:) It's good to get feedback from the forum whether good or bad.
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Rubyslippers, when I make cannelonni recipes I use fresh lasagna sheets and roll them, so much easier.
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I knew this recipe was on here and I've had the pasta shells for goodness knows how long. I had a batch of Lucyluu's Vegetable Bean Bolognese sauce (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=16287.0) freshly made so I used that instead of the passata component.
I made 1/2 quantity and used grated mozzarella because that's what I had on hand.
The photo is half of what I made but I only ate half of it. There's 4 small serves from this half batch for me to serve it with a tossed salad.
Thanks Denise, sorry it's taken me so long to get around to. I put it together last night and baked it for lunch today. It was lovely.
I didn't have to buy anything. I was able to finally use the conchiglioni shells from the pantry, some left-over cream cheese I didn't know what to do with from the fridge and mozzarella and chopped parsley from the freezer.
It all went nicely with my plan of reducing stocks in all these areas. Of course I have 3 pieces to put back in but I'll make that 1 and take 2 around to Mum ;D
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My goodness it's one of the first recipes I ever posted :D :D
Glad you liked it Judy and even better that you didn't have to buy anything ;D
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I knew you wouldn't be able to guess what I was going to do Denise LOL.