Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, unstuffed shells. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Unstuffed Shells is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Unstuffed Shells is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have unstuffed shells using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Unstuffed Shells:
- Make ready basic sized shell pasta
- Make ready olive oil
- Take yellow onion, diced
- Make ready garlic, minced
- Prepare ground beef (or turkey or sausage)
- Prepare unsalted crushed tomatoes
- Prepare unsalted diced tomatoes
- Take each dried basil, brown sugar
- Get salt, Italian seasoning
- Make ready each dried oregano, pepper
- Make ready heaping cups spinach, chopped
- Make ready ricotta cheese
- Get freshly shredded mozzarella cheese, divided
- Get freshly grated parmesan cheese
Steps to make Unstuffed Shells:
- Begin by cooking the shell pasta according to package directions. Then drain the shells, return them to the pot and set it aside. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a 9x13" baking pan with foil and grease it. Set this aside also.
- In a large skillet, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Once it's hot, add the onion and beef and cook, stirring often and breaking up the meat as it cooks, until it is no longer pink. Drain any excess fat out.
- Add the garlic to the cooked beef and cook for a minute or so, until fragrant. Then add the crushed tomato, diced tomato, brown sugar and all seasonings, along with the spinach. Once the spinach wilts, remove it from the heat.
- Pour the beef mixture into the pot with the drained shells. Add in the ricotta cheese and 1/2 cup of the mozzarella and stir it all together.
- Pour the shell mixture into the prepared baking pan. Sprinkle the remaining mozzarella and parmesan evenly over the top and cover with a piece of foil.
- Bake for 20 minutes, then remove the top foil and bake uncovered for 10 more minutes, until everything is heated through and the cheese is golden. Serve immediately and refrigerate any leftovers.
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