How to Make Italian Comfort Food Like Cheesy Stuffed Shells and Eggplant Pecorino
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- Hosts Julia Collin Davison and Bridget Lancaster make a streamlined recipe for Cheesy Stuffed Shells. Next, equipment expert Adam Ried reveals his top pick for 13x9 broiler-safe baking dishes. Finally, test cook Bryan Roof shows Julia how to make Eggplant Pecorino.
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THAT EGGPLANT!!!! This is how I remember the old country Italians making eggplant. It’s glorious. If you’ve never had it this way, try it. Believe me, it’s exquisite, Can be easily adapted to gluten free.
I have done the no boil on all the baked pasta dishes and is not so good, the pasta comes out gummy at best. For optimal results par boil the pasta for about a third of the required time, unless you have the taste buds of a billy goat then proceed as you see fit.
I love the idea of filling the shells uncooked. No worry about them tearing while you are filling.
My Italian Mum makes this.. it is the bomb!!!she also puts chicken mince and ricotta in the filling aswell ❤❤❤❤
I just made the egg plant Parmesan/ Pecorino. Off the hook!!!!! My mother is Sicilian and I have been making a version of this dish for 30 years (she taught me how to cook). This recipe and technique is how you should be making egg plant Parmesan. Being from Sicily I prefer Pecorino anyway.
I made the stuffed shells tonight and WOW! The filling was so creamy, it was amazing. I used passata and did add some Italian seasoning as the sauce was a bit bland. Also, I made a slurry of 1/2 tsp of baking soda and water to "eat" the acid so no heartburn afterwards. Definitely a keeper recipe!! Thanks!
Wow!! Both dishes look fantastic! And much easier than I would have imagined.
Agreed! Both look delicious!!!
Excellent for those of us who only have one person to cook for! I live alone and could not find a way to do it and now I can!
I wasn't aware until a found a second hand copy (library bookstore), but ATK puts out an annual "Cooking for Two " cookbook. Wonderful!
Just right for one person for 2 to 3 meals! And the adjustments take so many things into account.
I really enjoy watching Bridgett and Julia cook
You only boil dried fillable pasta for a few minutes shy of al dente. They are easy to fill with spoon or piping bag and finish cooking in the sauce as they bakeand they don't need to bake as long
I grew up with all my old Italian women relatives ALWAYS salting the eggplant before cooking and letting it sit for about an hour before squeezing out the liquid. It definitely helps remove a lot of bitterness.
My mom soaked it in clabbered milk, or milk with vinegar to get the bitterness out.
it’s the norm for any large eggplant especially male eggplants
They've bred most of the bitter out of eggplant in the past 50 years. Salting isn't required.
You're killing me. That looks so awesome. Thanks for making it look simple and easy.
I agree!!!
What dish are you speaking of?
Shells or Eggplant, they both look so delicious.
@@msoperator510 Sorry, the stuffed shells. It's my absolute favorite dish.
So happy to see you using Romano, which is only what was ever in our house. Parmesan is NOT equivalent. Families from the south of Italy prefer it, while the north goes for Parm.
Love the stuffed shells. I always believed that there are alternatives to water. Since this is tomato sauce, I'd use wine. Why dilute when you can add flavor. 😋😋😋😋
I made the sloppy joe recipe from another ATK episode recipe. I had some extra so froze it. When I made this I added about a cup of the sloppy joe to the cheese filling and stuffed the shells. Wow, only way I'll make stuffed shells again. I've made stuffed shells with the cheese filling and a meat sauce, but stuffing the shells with the sloppy joe filling and the cheese just takes it up a couple notches.
Good tip!
I'm going to try that. Stuffed Philly Cheese Steak shells anyone?
@@nikolassaraiva9088 oh, yeah. with a béchamel sauce.
Julia & Bridget, I loved the simplicity of this dish & also Brian's quick & deft assembly of it. Quite a triumph of skill & economy ! All the Best. All the Time. RMH/Ohio
Please check your link on the baking pan it links to Pyrex glass 3 qt pan .
I found the Mrs Anderson on Amazon only it was $74.00 dollars and not the mid thirties like they posted. I will stick with my pyrex.
My pyrex cracked up and broke under high heat.
@@karenross3457 That price increase may have been as a result of this review!
@@sandrah7512 I rarely broil because of the mess.
That is the most tasty eggplant dish I have ever seen.
I Always make stuffed shells with a meat mixture...yum 😋
Yes i prefer meat sauce myself and would add even half pound or a pound of geass fed ground beef to my sauce.
OMG. I can't wait to try the Roast Beef and Eggplant Pecorino recipes!! Julia and Bryan are so inspiring. As a true Foodie Home Cook, I think this Site is the absolute best!!!!! Thank you Cook's Country!!!!!
These ladies rock! So many tips.
Love this stuffed shell recipe. I absolutely love eggplant, we would congregate in the kitchen around my mom frying eggplant in her cast iron skillet for eggplant parm & steal the eggplant as it drained on paper towel! One of many happy memories of my childhood, miss my mum everyday!❤
My kids did the same. We usually ended up with a very small casserole.
You're so right about some stuffed shells fillings often being too blah. And I'm sure this baked eggplant will be a favorite for me. TY for discovering & sharing these recipes.
Magnificent recipe for stuffed shells! Tried it tonight and it came out perfectly. I've got a new respect for fontina cheese now. :-)
The link for the lasagna pan links to the wrong pan, Pyrex vs. Mrs. Anderson’s. The price for Mrs. Anderson is actually around $75.
You’re right. This was probably filmed two years ago, so it’s possible that its price went up in the meantime.
@@CantankerousDave so mrs anderson's took advantage of the review and raised the price!1 reason to buy a different brand
@@Stlmgnolia Amazon does a form of surge pricing so, if something becomes popular the price goes up.
@@raycreveling1583 Even Walmart has it for $75. It's not Amazon's fault. I think ATK made a mistake.
This video is from 2019. Bryan Roof wrote an article on La Campagna in 2019 that is currently on Cooks Country's website.
Amazon had the lasagna pan available for around $37 in 2019. Demand for the pan (after this segment) has caused the price to rise to $75 since then. When it was first offered in 2012 it appears some were selling the pan for around $23 and it was under $40 until 2019.
Looking through the photos in Bryan Roof's article, one photo shows La Campagna chef Carmella Fragassi making the dish with disposable aluminum pans (for a catering order), which might be sufficient for most people. I would guess that Bryan didn't slice the eggplant as thin as Carmella does, to cut down on the time frying the eggplant slices and making the tomato sauce and cheese last in final preparation.
Thanks for the cornstarch suggestion for the stuffed shells!
I always enjoy learning new techniques and watching u do wonderful thi go with foods
I'm excited to try both the stuffed shells and the eggplant dishes. Thank you for sharing.
OMG! Ingenious! Thx ATK🍷
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2 great vegetarian dishes. Way to go! Thanks!
Been watching your shows for some years, now. I love it!!! I even have one of your cook-books.
Looks great! Thanks for simplifying what other sites make complicated.
I have a good receipe for stuffed shells im gonna make it this week....plus the eggplant receipe ill make too
I have the eggplant in the pan right now following right along looking good thanks everyone at America's Test Kitchen
I can’t wait to try it! I’ve always steered clear of eggplant!
The shells look/sound delicious!
But I'm always bummed out by eggplant/aubergine recipes that seem that good, since I'm allergic. 😭
Not pre-boiling pastas for baking is at least 10 years old. I've been making very thinly sliced eggplant parm for years. Maybe even thinner than that. I don't cut it lengthwise. The pleasure is cutting through and eating 10 or 12 slices stacked. It's a very cool texture.
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My mom always used Romano with the eggplant . . . beats parmigiana :)
I brush the eggplant with olive oil, sprinkle with salt, pepper, and a little of oregano. Then I put them on sheet pan and put them under the broiler. No breading. No frying.
This is the way. Can also be grilled as efficiently on a griddle skillet inside or charcoal fire outside given the most time.
Yeah, definitely going to try the stuffed pasta shells this upcoming fall or winter. I liked the short segment on choosing a broiler-safe pan. Not a big fan of eggplant, so I'll probably not do it.
I love both stuffed shells and eggplant parmesan. I like adding a meat sauce to my stuffed shells and serve with a salad and garlic bread.
I have never cooked eggplant before, but I will be making this along with the shells. Thanks.
very good ladies
Brian,fantastic looking redo,this I have to try
Impressive stuffed shells and so easy! Much less work, I can attest to that!
Thanks, ladies! I’m going to make this…. I just ordered some disposal piping bags…
Both recipes look unique and delicious!!!
Both dishes look so good! It makes me sad, because I developed an allergy to eggplant over the years, so I'll have to skip that one. But the stuffed shells will be on the menu soon!
(Also worth noting: that winning baking dish is now $80 on Amazon. So much for it being the least expensive!)
The baking dish in the link to Amazon isn't the same baking dish they recommended in this video :(
I did find the one they recommended . Only it was a lot more expensive.
The stuff d shells look bomb! I would make this recipe no question! Thank you for all the tips!
I love these. I sure wish you would give a side dish and a wine suggestion.
I'm not ATK but for the eggplant pecorino we served a simple arugula salad tossed with oil, salt and pepper, and served it with a nice oaky Chardonnay :)
This is a great episode. Thank you!
Hi. I love your recipes. Thanks.
Absolutely, Eggplant Parmesean is best as an eggplant dish with tomato + cheese layers to complement it -- not the other way around
Thanks for staying meatless in these. Mashed capers can work as a substitute for anchovies. Maybe someone knows an even better option.
My grandmother had the best egg plant parmesan recipe who she got from her sister inlaw who was Italian. Your link for the pan is showing pryex not Anderson.
I can't resist par-cooking the pasta shells to season them (mostly). They are still firm enough to fill and I like the texture after baking. I WISH that Mrs Anderson pan was $37. Maybe on eBay
I would love to know how Carmella benefits from having her recipe on ATK. The publicity is probably great for business but considering what ATK can make from ads and subscriptions I hope some of that goes back to her as the inspiration for this recipe.
Who owns a recipe? Watch Adam’s video on it
Fantastic and very clever recipe...
Shells look so so good! I want to try them...
Both look great and I will be sure to try them!
I can’t wait to make both
very nice sir
Woo! Shout out to Cleveland area, my hometown!
my mouth is watering when you ate the shells
Can't wait to try the eggplant. Now if I can find the right size and is good shape.
Must wait until the weather cools down to fire the ovens up.
I'm in Arizona, it's 113 degrees today, not baking much till fall.
Delicious dish thank you.
Oh my! We did your ziti from years ago and it was awesome! Can't wait to try this!!!!! Mmmmmmmmm!
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I would slice the eggplant pole to pole so an individual stack would be a smaller portion
How does she not get any food on her white blouse? Amazing
Instead of water. You can use vegetable broth/stock.
Brilliant stuffed shells
That looks delious the closest to my Dad’s recipe except it has the skin on. We take it off
Pasta lucious
Great recipes. Gonna do at least one of these
Thanks for the beautiful cheesy pasta recipe. Which garlic press are you using?
for the eggplant you can use Vietnamese Fish Sauce instead of anchovies and salt because VFS is salted liquid anchovies
Mrs Anderson winning casserole dish dies not come up. What comes up is a glass Pyrex dish. Can you provide tge correct link?
"See you later alligator", don't for get the rest of it, "after a while, crocodile.
Yummy ❤
Could you freeze portions of it after cooking, then microwave it to warm it up? Looks yummy btw 😋
yes.
My gosh looks delicious!
America’s Kitchen and Cook’s Country cooking for one or two.? Thanks.
I love eggplant!
I love your show!!!!!!! Xoxoxo ❤
Why waste any of the shells? The piping bag would have worked perfectly to get the stuffing in the side opening of the "bad" shell she showed us.
FYI the link to the winning baking dish shown above isn't correct.
I don't like ricotta at all but the variety of cheese sounds like it would help
TYVM¡
I made the stuffed shells. 👍
The baking pan has doubled in price on Amazon -- but Amazon sells a duplicate for the price stated on Cook’s Country. And nobody is surprised .....
I don't care about how it looks coming out of the oven but it looks which one was the largest with the best handle? The one on my right end looks like it covers both. It is about the plate not the baking dish.
Eggplant Romano!
Theclink for the lasagna dish takes me to a pyrex dish instead of
The link to the winning baking dish takes you to a Pyrex dish NOT the dish shown in the episode. I looked up the Mrs. Anderson's lasagna dish and it's $75 , not $37.
Please come to my house and make that eggplant!!
Two thoughts here. First, you guys have sold me on that Broiler safe baking dish. Second, why are you bothering to remove the labels from your cans of tomatoes? I think I saw that in another recipe just recently as well.
legal reasons…can’t be seen as using a particular brand
@@bostonrailfan2427 that is absolutely absurd! What has changed in the last 10 or 20 years that we can't show labels on cans and cartons anymore? 80k it's like the Good Housekeeping of food. We're in they test all kinds of different things to find what they believed to be a superior product. Why not then use those products on are, including the brand names the products that have won the testing's? What can these companies possibly do America's Test Kitchen for showing a brand preference anyway? In fact I think it is big-time disingenuous to do all these tests and then pretend they don't use the brands they say they prefer. Come on!
@@twosocks1976 …they NEVER show labels on Food Network, not since I started watching in 1998. and the vast majority of PBS shows go out of their way to not show labels unless those are sponsors, this here is no exception
@@bostonrailfan2427 no one is actually answering my question. Is there some law that APK or PBS or whatever, would be breaking if they happened to show a brand name on The Food being used in the cooking show? What bad thing or things would happen today's Networks if a particular label was shown? As for Food Network, I don't care what they do or don't do. I haven't watched anything on Food Network in years. My question specifically refers to 80k, because they test various food products all the time. So since they don't take sponsorship from anyone as far as these food products go, why not show the labels? If you are just going to insult me or castigate me, just leave me alone. It's not a complaint as much as it is a sincere question. I don't know of any law that would be broken if there was a tenth of a second of a label being shown.
Just watching this made me gain 5 lbs.
The baking pan is now $58.99.