Everyone knows that Italians cook pasta the best. It was they who invented the cannelloni pasta for stuffing. In appearance, they look like wide tubes of ten centimeters in length. You can, of course, use pasta in the form of large shells for stuffing, but still cannelloni are more suitable for this than others - this is a classic option. The most Italian.
You must admit that pasta stuffed with minced meat in wine sauce is a tasty, but rather unusual dish. Minced meat can be used either fried or raw, with onions or vegetables. To prepare a dish according to this recipe, you need one package of cannelloni - this is 250 grams, as well as 400 grams of minced meat, which is a mixture of pork and beef. From vegetables, you need to take four tomatoes, two onions and a few cloves of garlic. You will also need tomato paste - 4 tablespoons, olive oil, spices and seasonings: black pepper, basil and oregano. If desired, you can use other spices and spices, but these are the ones that are put in the sauce in Italy.
Stuffed pasta stuffed with minced meat begin to cook with vegetables - just like many other dishes. They need to be well washed, peeled and chopped: garlic with slices, onions with rings, and tomatoes with cubes. Before you chop the tomatoes, you need to peel them off after boiling with boiling water. First, garlic is thrown into a frying pan with heated olive oil. After he gives up his aroma, they take it out with a slotted spoon and throw it away. Next, throw the onion into the pan and, continuously mixing, fry it until it becomes transparent. After that, put tomato paste and tomatoes on the onion, and a little later add spices, herbs and pour wine. All components must be mixed well and stewed without opening the lid over low heat for about half an hour, until the sauce is about one third smoked. Stuffed pasta with minced sauce - this is a traditional Italian recipe.
While the sauce is boiled, mincemeat is fried in another pan. Before frying, the minced meat is slightly salted. Then in salted water you need to boil the pasta until half cooked. After they have cooled, they begin to fill them with minced meat. We cook cannelloni with minced meat: put them in a ducklifter, greased with oil, fill with sauce, after which we can already put it in the oven, heated to about 180 degrees.
Baked pasta stuffed with minced meat for thirty minutes. Before the readiness, the dish is sprinkled with grated cheese. To prevent the cannelloni from bursting during baking, they need to be filled not tightly.
Instead of minced meat, you can use chicken giblets. They need to be fried with onions in a pan, salt to taste, pepper, and then grind in a meat grinder.
Pasta stuffed with minced meat from giblets is also very tasty.
Instead of cannelloni, you can stuff large shells. You can even not pre-boil them. Stuffed shells are laid out in a baking dish and poured either sparse sauce, or just meat broth. It is necessary to fill in so that the shells are hidden. If the broth is used for pouring, then onions, tomato paste and all seasonings will be added directly to the stuffing. Such a dish will be prepared twice as long, that is, about an hour. Lightly boiled shells will be cooked in just twenty minutes.
To diversify the dish, mincemeat can be replaced with another filling. For example, you can try this option: just boil rice, fry tomatoes and onions, add garlic, salt, spices and a little sour cream. Stuff pasta with this filling and cook in the same way as in the recipes described above. The dish is very tender and tasty. This recipe can be offered even to those people who are not particularly keen on meat.