A cheesy baked pasta dish, manicotti is an indulgent comfort food. Make your next homemade batch of manicotti even better with our expert tips and tricks.

dishes of manicotti and stuffed shells with fresh basil - 500/Getty Images Crafting any stuffed pasta dish requires some degree of hands-on prep time. It's going to be more labor intensive than ...

In the classic manicotti recipe, the long, ribbed pasta tubes are stuffed with a creamy ricotta filling, topped with tomato sauce and cheese, and baked to perfection. But a constant point of ...

Today, we're zeroing-in on two of the most iconic filled pasta dishes foodies know and crave -- manicotti and stuffed shells -- and exploring what exactly makes these Italian-American comfort food ...

Folks can make manicotti with either crepes or tubular pasta. DiNardo explained that he made fresh tomato sauce for the recipe, which he first uses to line a thin layer at the bottom of a baking dish.