Seafood-filled Pasta Shells
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Difficulty:
moderate
Difficulty
Preparation:
40 min.
Preparation
Ingredients
for
4
- Ingredients
- 10 cups large Conchiglie
- 2 cups Crabmeat
- 2 Basil (chopped)
- ¾ cup Pine nuts
- 5 cloves garlic cloves (chopped)
- extra-virgin olive oil
- 3 Tomatoes (finely chopped)
- ⅜ cup vegetable stock
- salt
- peppers
Product recommendation
... Substitute the meat from ½ lobster for the crab
.... Use 1 cooked chicken breast finely chopped instead of the crab
Preparation steps
1.
Cook the pasta in boiling salted water according to packet instructions. Drain and toss with olive oil.
2.
Place the basil, garlic and pine nuts in a pestle and mortar and crush to make a paste then pour in enough oil to loosen.
3.
Add the crab and tomatoes to the pesto and mix gently. Season.
4.
Preheat the oven to 150°C | 300F | gas 2.
5.
Stuff the pasta shells with the pesto mixture and place in a buttered baking dish. Pour the stock into the bottom of the dish and cover with foil.
6.
Bake for 10 minutes then serve.
