Stuffed Pasta with Lima Beans

Lima beans are very healthy..i thought why not to try with pasta.This dish was so flavorful. The taste of beans and i have added the cashewnuts and mint pesto that makes this dish so colorful and tasty.

 Ingredients:

• 10-12 Jumbo Pasta Shells
• 1 cup Lima/ Fava Beans (used baby lima beans)
• 1/4 cup Cahewnuts
• 1/4 cup Mint
• 1/4 cup Spinach leaves (optional)
• 1 tsp Cumin seeds
• 1 cup Ricotta cheese
• 1/2 cup Monterey Jack cheese 
• 2-3 Garlic cloves
• Black pepper , Salt as per taste.
• Tomato sauce (home made or store bought)

Method:

       Cook the shell pasta as per instruction and keep it a side.  Cook the lima beans and set it aside.

In a mixie add mint, cashewnuts, garlic, mint, spinach leaves, salt and pepper, olive oil , cumin seeds and make fine paste. In a blow take lima beans, add above made pesto, ricotta cheese.

 Fill the shell with lima bean pesto. To bake, pour the tomato sauce on the bottom of the dish. Place the stuffed shells and sprinkle the cheese on the stuffed shells.Bake for 20-25 minutes  at 300 F and serve hot.

If leftovers?- In a pan pour little water and sauce. place these shells and cook for few minutes and serve hot. No need to bake again.

This recipe goes to my Pasta Party Event