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Kitchen Scoop: no precooking necessary for stuffed manicotti

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No need to worry with floppy manicotti noodles, this easy recipe has you fill the raw noodles.

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"With a stuffed pasta like manicotti you have to do things differently ... never, never, never precook your manicotti noodles ahead of time." That's the advice Kitchen Scoop writer Alicia Ross got from a reader and her testing has proved it's the easiest method for stuffing pasta tubes and shells.