Hello everyone and welcome to Lounging
with Lenny.
My name is Lenny and this is my daughter Anna.
Today we're making spinach
and ricotta stuffed pasta shells
The ingredients I got from Magnificofood.com
Which is pasta shells and cherry tomato pasta sauce. Enjoy
First of all I will cook spinach
Preheat the pan to medium high heat
Pour some oil and sauté 1
medium diced onion
after you reach golden color add three
cloves of minced garlic
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Add 1/8 teaspoon of ground nutmeg
Spinach and nutmeg is a great classic
combination
Finally put the spinach into the pan and saute it all together
Make sure that you wash the spinach well before  cooking
Season with pepper and salt
It looks like we'll have a lot of
spinach but it will shrink while we cook
Cook it on a high heat for less than
a minute
Turn off the stove and finish cooking by stirring it
Drain all the liquid from the spinach and put it aside
Make sure you drain it well
Now it's time to cook pasta shells
Bring water to a boil
Add oil to prevent pasta from sticking to each other
Season with half a teaspoon of salt to flavor your water
Put the pasta in, stir it and
cook it for 10 minutes
Pasta should be a little undercooked because we will finish by baking it in the oven
Drain the pasta
Put it a side, do not rinse it with cold water
because you don't want to wash off the pasta flavor
Pour some olive oil and let it cool down
by itself
While pasta is cooling down I will work on spinach ricotta cheese filling
Roughly chop the cooked spinach
Put it in the bowl and add four cups of
ricotta cheese
Season it with pepper and salt
Add about one cup of shredded mozzarella cheese and mix it well
Everything is ready, so let's stuff the
pasta shells
Take a shallow dish where you will bake your pasta
Pour your tomato sauce on the bottom of the dish and spread it evenly
Add your filling into the piping bag
or regular ziplock bag like I do
This is the easiest mess free way to
fill up the shelves
and the stuffing will spread evenly
With the tablespoon add the remaining
sauce on top of every shell
This is a great dish for family or friends
gathering
Top it with mozzarella and Parmesan
cheese
you can add more or less cheese if you prefer
cover with aluminum foil and bake it in
the oven at 350 degrees for 20 minutes
take off the aluminum foil and bake for
another 15 minutes
when everything is ready garnish with some fresh basil and enjoy
