Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, stuffed shells. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Stuffed Shells is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Stuffed Shells is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
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.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook stuffed shells using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Stuffed Shells:
- Make ready 2 lb lean ground beef
- Take 1 box large shells
- Get 1 small onion
- Take 2 clove garlic
- Take 1 tsp Italian seasoning
- Make ready 1 tsp tyme
- Make ready 1 salt and pepper to taste
- Get 6 cup mozzarella cheese
- Take 1 pints ricotta cheese
- Take 4 3/4 cup favorite spaghetti sauce
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:
- Place your skillet on the stove and set it to medium heat. Add about 2 tablespoons of oil or olive oil which ever you choose. While this cooks get a large pot and fill 3/4 full of water add salt to season the pasta. When the water reaches boiling add the pasta following the directions on the package. Turn your oven on and preheat it to 350°F
- Next place the onion in the pan and let it start to cook a bit stirring as needed. As it starts to caramelize add the garlic and cook only two to three minuets more. Remove from pan to let cool. In that same pan add the ground beef and cook till browned.
- Drain the ground beef and let cool slightly.
- In a large bowl add the meat and onions and each of the spices . Mix well. Add in the ricotta and 2 cups of mozzarella cheese. Once that is incorporated add 1 cup of the spaghetti sauce. If it seems a bit dry add a little more sauce.
- Take the pasta that should be done and drain it rinsing it with cold water to make sure they don't stick.
- I used two round pans but its best if you use a 9 x13 pan
- Put a small amount of sauce of in the bottom of the pan just enough to coat. Take a a shell and fill it with the mixture. Place in the pan and repeat until all shells are filled. Once they are all in the pans pour the remaining sauce over them and cover that with the rest of the mozzarella cheese and bake for 30 to 45 min or until bubbly and the cheese is melted and brown in top.
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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