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To make the sauce: in a saucepan over medium heat melt butter. Fill each cooked shell with crab/cheese filling using clean hands. Place in a single layer in prepared baking dish.

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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook brad's crab florentine manicotti w/ parmesan, basil, caper sauce using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Brad's crab florentine manicotti w/ parmesan, basil, caper sauce:

1. Prepare For the manicotti
2. Get lump crab meat
3. Get ricotta cheese
4. Prepare chopped baby spinach
5. Get salt
6. Make ready minced garlic
7. Take shredded parmesan
8. Take manicotti noodles
9. Take For the sauce
10. Get medium onion, diced
11. Make ready olive oil
12. Take minced garlic
13. Get capers brined in white balsamic vinegar
14. Get half and half
15. Make ready granulated chicken bouillon
16. Take chopped fresh basil
17. Make ready Around 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
18. Make ready Other ingredients
19. Make ready shredded mozzarella
20. Prepare shredded parmesan
21. Take Fresh basil leaves for garnish

This baked Manicotti recipe is creamy, cheesy, meaty, saucy, and deeply satisfying. The sweet basil sauce pairs well with the rich cheese filling.—Melba Perlenfein, Barstow, Illinois. I added garlic eggs mozzarella and parmesan to the filling mixture and do use spaghetti sauce rather than tomato sauce. I also solved the problem of filling the shells by putting the filling mixture in a plastic.

Steps to make Brad's crab florentine manicotti w/ parmesan, basil, caper sauce:

1. Boil 6 qts water in a large pot. Salt to taste. Add manicotti noodles and boil 6 minutes. Strain in a colander and rinse with cold water. They will seem too al dente, but they will soften in 15 to 20 minutes. This is how you dont overcook the noodles and they will hold together better when stuffing them.
2. While this is cooking mix the rest of the manicotti ingredients in a large mixing bowl.
3. Heat a large frying pan on medium heat. Add oil. Saute onions until they just start to brown. Add garlic and capers. Make sure to get a little caper brine in there too. Saute another 2 minutes.
4. Add cream, basil, and bouillon. Slowly bring to a simmer.
5. Meanwhile, stuff noodles with the filling. I used a butter knife. It seems to be a bit easier on the noodles.
6. Grease a 9x13 baking dish. Arrange stuffed noodles in it.
7. When sauce starts to simmer, slowly add mozzarella until sauce thickens a bit.
8. Pour sauce over noodles and top with remaining cheeses. Bake in a 375 degree oven for 10 minutes on the middle rack.
9. Change your oven over to high broiler. All broilers are different, so keep an eye on it. I went another 10 minutes. You want the cheese to just start browning on top.
10. Remove from oven and let stand 5 minutes. Serve with fresh basil leaves for garnish. Enjoy.

Pat excess water from shells, fill with cheese, spinich mixture and lay in pan. Freeze leftovers in individual portions so each serving can be quickly reheated in the microwave. Add crushed tomatoes to a saucepan over low heat. Add Italian seasoning, grated Parmesan cheese and stir until heated and simmering. Pour crushed tomato sauce over Manicotti and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and fresh basil (optional).

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