Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, stuffed jumbo pasta shells. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook stuffed jumbo pasta shells using 9 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Stuffed Jumbo pasta shells:
- Make ready 1/2 box jumbo pasta shells (it made 16)
- Prepare 2 pounds ground beef or ground chuck
- Prepare As needed diced bell peppers(I used Tri color)
- Take As needed diced yellow onion (I love onion so I used whole one)
- Take As needed minced garlic
- Prepare 2 jars Pasta sauce (homemade or bought)
- Prepare As needed seasonings: Italian & Tuscany, garlic and onion powder, hamburger seasoning, & couple others
- Take As needed shredded assortment of cheeses(Mozzarella being the main, sharp cheddar, pepper jack, cream cheese, cottage cheese
- Take A few spoonfuls of MILD Rotel tomatoes to add to meat frying (also reserved a lil juice from can for one of the different steps)
Soak the shells in a large boil of hot salted tap water while you preheat the oven and make the ricotta. These jumbo shells are loaded with cheese, both ricotta and Parmesan cheese. Of course there's spinach in them too, which makes these shells healthy, in my How to Make Stuffed Shells. Add the shells to a large pot of well salted boiling water and cook.
Instructions to make Stuffed Jumbo pasta shells:
- Preheat oven to 375
- Dice up all your veggies.
- Add water to a pot with some salt, evoo or small amount butter, and tsp Italian seasonings in a pot. Let it come to a boil & add noodle shells. Stir. Cook until done.
- Drain shells, line up and let dry on a piece of parchment paper, so u can fill them later.
- Add your ground beef & veggies(onion & bell peppers, garlic, assorted seasonings, mild rotel tomatoes to a pan and cook on stovetop until done. Drain.
- Add just a very tiny thin line of some of the pasta sauce right out of the jar, to kinda just cover up the bottom of pan your gonna cook them in oven with. Set aside.
- Add most of the pasta marinara sauces from jars to the meat mixture & let simmer on low. ●Reserve● a little bit of just the sauce from jars, without meat mixture to Baste shells with later.
- In a bowl. Add some softened cream cheese, seasonings, some of all the cheeses, a tbsp or 2 of rotel juice, etc and mix up.
- Add/Spoon that bowl of cheese mixture into the pan of meat sauce mixture and mix good, let simmer again for a few. Stir. Turn off.
- Then stuff shells with the meat cheese mixture and add them one by one to the baking dish pan that has the small layer of plain sauce on bottom of it.
- Baste the outer shells with the reserved plain(no meat) sauce from jar, sprinkle all the rest of cheeses all over top & sides of shells, anymore seasonings/herbs or parsley & bake for 35 min or so, or until cheese is melted. Take out, let rest for a few minutes. While u make bread/salad or whatever.
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Vegan Stuffed Jumbo Shells are flavorful and satisfying. Stuffed with sauce, plant-based 'sausage' crumbled into small pieces and little florets of broccoli. A great Italian style comfort food for tonight's dinner! Mix well and fill each cooked pasta shell. Jumbo pasta shells filled with melty cheese, marinara and meatballs make for such an easy appetizer or meal!
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