how to cooked stuffed pasta (sauce ideas?)

nuno

Can anyone help me out with these? I'd call myself a pretty good cook and I've cooked them for years but have never really got them right.

When I have them plain they seem to stick together in a mess after a couple of mins in the bowl.

If i try to make a tomato sauce it doesn't seem to work with the pasta - it's either in a blob on top of sticky stuffed pasta or if i try to stir it all together the shells fall apart and I end up with another mess.

If i add oil to the water they're cooked in the pasta doesn't stick together so much but then neither does the sauce stick to the pasta!

Any ideas for a successful stuffed pasta dish? Has anyone tried baking them in the oven (al forno)

hotcookie101

This is pretty good and very easy (I use HM tomato sauce though)
I quite often cook it from frozen, and its really important not to overcook.
Serving it with melted butter than you have fried a few sage leaves in is very authentic. We recently had porcetta stuffed ravioli that I served with a mushroom, wild mushroom, sherry and creme fraiche sauce with was very nice
With the presentation-I serve them in wide shallow bowls or on a plate, try to get in a single layer, then drizzle the sauce over them and spoon through. If they are really breaking up you may be over cooking it? I tend to cook for 3 mins from fresh or 4 from frozen

dunworking

just use a tin of tomatoes with a squirt of tom puree salt pepper herbs garlic

ubamother

if you get the pasta from the draining colander to wide shallow bowls/plates immediately they should stick together less - having warm crockery helps too. I'm with hotcookie101 in drizzling the sauce over, that way you have much less stirring to do, which can break up the stuffed pasta, and if you've got the plain pasta on the plate you don't have to move it all again.

flutterbyuk25

Perhaps spray the pasta lightly with spray oil (such as Frylight) after draining. This should prevent them from sticking. I do this with normal pasta when I batch cook it and it doesn't stick.

HTH

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