Stuffed and Baked Pasta Dishes

Stuffed pastas are the haute cuisine of pasta cooking. When they are home-made they look and taste delectable and truly melt in your mouth. It is easy to make the pasta sheets with a hand-cranking machine and to cut them into the desired shapes before stuffing. Green (spinach) pasta is particularly suitable because it contains extra moisture and seals well. You can use any stuffing with any shape, and vary your sauces according to the rest of the meal. The possibilities are endless, it is fun to do and you will dazzle your guests with the results. Cook them as you would any other pasta but boil gently. The cooking time varies with the thickness and dryness of the stuffed pasta, but is approximately 10 minutes. The only way to be certain it is ‘al dente’ is to test a bit by biting into it.