Lobster Stuffed Pasta Shells for Two | Food Wishes

Hello, this is Chef John from foodwishes.com with lobster stuffed pasta shells for two.

That's right, removing a little bit of lobster from one kind of shell to

another to create one of my favorite baked seafood pasta dishes, which I think you and, hopefully,

someone very close to you will love just as much as I do. And

to get started, we'll do one optional step, which is wilting a couple cups of baby spinach in a dry pan set over medium-high heat.

Right, you can make these shells without it, but I think they look and

taste better with it. Plus, it only takes a few seconds.

And just as soon as that spinach is 90 to 100 wilted, we will transfer it into a strainer, and we will let that drain over a bowl. And

once it's cool enough to handle, we will squeeze the water out and give it a chop. And that's it.

Once our spinach is set, we can move on to prep our lobster tails, which first involves removing the meat from the shell, which I

like to do by cutting open with scissors.

Okay, we'll snip up one side and then snip up the other, at which point it's going to be pretty easy to separate the meat from the shell. Oh, and

don't throw away the shells, since we're actually going to use those to flavor our sauce, which you will see later.

And once that meat's been removed, just like when we're peeling shrimp, we have to double check we don't have to devein them, which is

not a vein. It's a digestive tract. And even if you don't see the vein, there might be some little grit here and.

There. So generally, it's not a bad idea to give these a quick rinse after they've been peeled.

So we'll go ahead and do that to two lobster tails, which we will then chop up into nice small pieces before we make the filling.

And by the way, these are two different lobster tails. That first one I

prepped, I used for a little lobster toast experiment, which I'm still working on.

And the only reason I even mention that is because lobster tails I'm chopping now have a slightly different, a little bit pinker color

than the first one, which is very common. So if you see a little color variation, don't be concerned.