Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, stuffed shells. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Jumbo pasta shells stuffed with ricotta, mozzarella and Parmesan, smothered in a mushroom tomato sauce and baked. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the pasta shells and cook for half the cooking time on the package.
Stuffed Shells is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Stuffed Shells is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have stuffed shells using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Stuffed Shells:
- Prepare 16 jumbo pasta shells
- Make ready 2 small onions
- Make ready 1 stick butter/margarine
- Make ready 2 egg whites (or 1/3 cup egg beaters or equivalent)
- Take 15 ounce skim milk ricotta
- Take 8 ounce bag part skim mozzarella
- Prepare 1/2 cup parmesan or romano cheese
- Get 1/2 tsp. sugar
- Make ready 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
- Prepare 1/8 tsp. salt x2
- Make ready 1/8 tsp. pepper
- Get 1/4 bag spinach (2 oz.)
- Make ready 2 (28 oz.) can Redpack crushed tomatoes (or 2 cans plum tomatoes)
- Make ready 1 Tbsp. dried basil
A favorite among American families, stuffed shells bring traditional Italian cooking to Western kitchens across the United States. Stuffed shells are typically filled with ricotta and other delicious cheeses These easy Stuffed Shells are perfect to throw together on a weeknight and impressive enough to serve guests. They're saucy, oh-so-cheesy, and loaded with a ricotta, spinach, and parmesan filling. These stuffed shells are made with cooked pasta shells, a cheesy ricotta filling, a few Italian herbs, & marinara!
Instructions to make Stuffed Shells:
- Get the sauce cooking. Melt butter/margarine in medium pot (or slow cooker) on LOW HEAT, mince onions as fine as possible and add to pot with the butter. Let simmer for 2 minutes to blanch onions.
- Mix dried basil with a 1/4 cup of water and microwave in a cup for 45 seconds. This will make a basil "tea". Strain and add basil "tea" to the sauce.
- Add cans of tomatoes, basil "tea", pepper, sugar and 1/8 tsp. salt to pot and let simmer at least an hour (or two). Add more sugar if you like it sweeter.
- Boil the shells and let cool being careful not to get them torn up.
- Mix thourloughly the ricotta, parmesan, eggs, garlic powder, 4 oz. mozzarella and cleaned spinach (remove the stems!). I used about a quarter of a bag of spinach.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Add several ladles of the tomato sauce to a casserole dish. Stuff the shells with cheese mixture and line the casserole dish with stuffed shells.
- Pour a few more ladles of the tomato sauce over the shells. Cover the dish with foil, poke a hole in the middle to vent. Be careful not to let the tomato sauce get on the foil as it will dissolve the foil! Bake covered for 40 minutes.
- Uncover and top cooked shells with the rest of the mozzarella cheese. Cook another 10 minutes.
- Let cool 5 minutes then serve!
- I've also made this by adding a half pound of hot sausage (or ground beef or even pepperoni) to the sauce. But, the vegetarian version is remarkable. The only really fattening part is the butter/margarine. I don't like using olive oil as it has a distinctly different taste than the more pungent flavor of butter/margarine. Feel free to use either parmesan or romano cheese. Pecorino romano is by far the best to use if you can.
Tips for making ahead AND freezing! Stuffed shells recipe with spinach and three kinds of cheese! Ricotta, parmesan, and mozzarella pair nicely with a homemade sausage marinara sauce. Wayne loves stuffed shells - straight up, red sauced, ricotta-stuffed snails of baked deliciousness. I made them five years ago, when we moved from our apartment a few blocks south of where we.
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