Submitted by Karen Stuckings
Calamarata Pie/Bake
Serving: 8
Ingredients
- 1 kg mince
- 1 medium onion chopped
- 5 shortcut bacon chopped
- 1 kg blanched skinned chopped tomatoes
- 140 gram tomato paste
- 2-3 cloves garlic
- 2 tablespoons Italian herbs
- ½ cup beef stock
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Calamarata pasta raw (I used about 350 grams)
- 250 grams grated cheese (more or less depending on your taste)
- Sour cream for serving
Instructions
- Brown mince in a frypan and drain fat. Add onion, bacon and fry for 5 minutes. Add tomatoes, tomato paste, garlic, herbs and stock and mix well.
- Allow to simmer while you place pasta shells upright in a lined sc, place them as tight as possible. I double lined mine to give extra strength to make it easier to lift out of sc.
- Once you have your shells in, taste sauce and adjust flavour to your taste, pour your mince mixture over. I like to push mixture down with a spoon but with the shells having a large hole it will sink down as it cooks.
- Cook with lid on for 4 hours on low. You can check if pasta is cooked by sticking a skewer into the middle.
- Place cheese on top and cook until cheese has melted with lid off, about hour. I only put cheese on half as some didnt want cheese.
- Turn off sc and leave for 15 minutes to rest, this seems to help with keeping pasta together and I use this time to dish up my salad.
- Remove from sc, cut into portions and serve with salad and/or chips and sour cream on top. This was cooked in my 5.5L cookwell sc
- Extra tip: Dont throw away broken bits of pasta. Push them into any gaps or break up smaller and sprinkle into your shells before placing mince in.
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