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Baked Candele with Mushrooms


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Baked Candele with mushrooms

Jacqui
This baked raw pasta recipe allows the pasta to really absorb the flavours of the sauce and the result is divine!
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine Italian, Southern Italian
Servings 6
Calories 489 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 500 g candele pasta I used De Cecco 127
  • 700 g tomato passata rustica I used Cirio passata rustica
  • 12 cherry or datterini tomatoes washed and stalks removed
  • 1 tablespoon tomato concentrate
  • 1 large onion peeled and finely chopped
  • 500 g sliced mushrooms I used white button and pioppini mushrooms but you can also use portobello or cremini mushrooms
  • 1 cup vegetable stock
  • 2 mozzarella 200g cut into pieces
  • 20 g butter
  • ½ glass dry white wine
  • 90 g grated parmesan or grana
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 handful fresh basil leaves
  • salt to taste
  • black pepper to taste

Instructions
 

  • Prepare the onion, tomatoes and mushrooms.
  • Heat the olive oil in a frying pan or skillet.
  • Add the chopped onion and cook until it starts to soften.
  • Add the butter and allow it to melt then add the sliced mushrooms and cook for a while until they start to dry out a little.
  • Add the white wine and cook until the alcohol begins to evaporate.
  • Add the tomato concentrate and stir it with the mushrooms until it begins to melt.
  • Then add the passata and stock and let the sauce simmer for about a quarter of an hour.
  • Five minutes before the sauce is ready add the cherry/ datterini tomatoes
  • Add salt and pepper to taste.
  • Ladle some sauce onto the bottom of a non-stick oven dish and spread it so it covers the whole of the bottom of the dish.
  • Place a layer of halved candele on top of the sauce, leaving a little space between the pieces of pasta
  • Cover the candele with sauce, mozzarella pieces and a sprinkling of parmesan cheese.
  • Repeat this process until you have used all the pasta, finishing with plenty of sauce, then mozzarella, a few fresh basil leaves and a sprinkling of parmesan cheese.
  • Cover the dish with aluminium foil and bake in a preheated oven for about 30/40 minutes at 180°.
  • Remove the aluminium foil for the last 15 minutes. If the pasta is still too hard at this point or the dish is drying out add some more vegetable stock around the edges.
  • Remove from the oven when the pasta is cooked al dente and the top has browned.
  • Allow the baked candele 5-10 minutes to cool before cutting and serving.
  • Serve with extra parmesan if required.

Notes

If you don't have candele pasta this recipe can be made with other tubular pasta such as penne, elicoidale (tortiglioni) ziti or zitoni, which are quite similar to candele.

Nutrition

Calories: 489kcalCarbohydrates: 81gProtein: 21gFat: 9gSaturated Fat: 5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 18mgSodium: 489mgPotassium: 1121mgFiber: 6gSugar: 12gVitamin A: 1106IUVitamin C: 24mgCalcium: 232mgIron: 4mg
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  1. J Peter Fuller says

    I was at the discount store today and found and brought home a package of candele!
    I will break it and stuff it with asparagus (not my idea - found it on the web), cook it and cover it with Marcella Hazen’s “tomato sauce # 3 and parmigiana reggiano cheese. Yum!

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    • Jacqui says

      Thanks for your comment. I've never stuffed candele. Sounds delicious. Do let me know how it turns out!

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  2. Deni Mahoney says

    This sounds amazing, will definitely try it. Thanks so much for the recipe.x

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    • admin says

      Thanks so much Deni! I'm happy you like this recipe! Please let me know how it turns out when you try it! All the best from Verona!

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  3. PAM LORD says

    Am off to that Italian Deli in Lower Belgrave Street to find the Candele and I shall risk cooking it in the over together with the sauce. Will heed your advice and keep it more liquid than usual. I tend to use Penne or that squiggly pasta but, Candele.........Cannot wait. xx

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    • admin says

      Dearest Pam, how lovely that you are following my blog. If you can't find candele at your Italian deli, you can order De Cecco candele (that's what I used!) on Amazon! Do let me know how it turns out and please share the recipes and posts you like with friends, even on facebook. It will really help me to grow my blog! Love Jacqui

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