Italian Style Meat Stuffed Shells. Here is how you do that. The ingredients needed to cook Italian Style Meat Stuffed Shells: Get of jumbo pasta shells, precooked just until tender. In a large skillet, cook beef, onion and garlic over medium heat, crumbling beef, until meat is no longer pink; drain.

Any lean ground meat can be used in this recipe-beef, veal, chicken, turkey or even sausage. The cheese mixture of ricotta, mozzarella, and Romano ensures a creamy texture when combined with the meat. Stuffed Shells with Meat and Cheese are a delicious pasta dish you can make for dinner any night. You can have Italian Style Meat Stuffed Shells using 26 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Italian Style Meat Stuffed Shells

Prepare 25-30 of jumbo pasta shells, precooked just until tender.
You need of For Fillimg.
Prepare 1 pound of ground beef.
Prepare 1 pound of italian sausage, hot or mild casings removed.
It's 1 of small onion, minced.
Prepare 12 slices of pepperoni.
You need 2 of garlic cloves, minced.
Prepare 1 tablespoon of butter.
You need 1/2 cup of fresh italian bread, crusts removed made into crumbs.
It's 1/4 cup of heavy cream.
It's 2 tablespoons of sour cream.
You need 1 teaspoon of worcestershire sauce.
It's 1 teaspoon of italian seasoning.
You need 2 tablespoon of fresh chopped basil.
It's 1/4 cup of fresh grated romano cheese.
It's to taste of salt and pepper.
It's 1 of egg, lightly beaten.
You need 1 cup of shredded italuan 4 cheese blend shredded.
Prepare of For cheese center.
Prepare 26-30 cubes of creamy jack cheese or any good melting cheese.
Prepare of For Topping.
It's 2 of cuos italian four cheese blend, shredded.
You need 1/4 teaspoon of italian seasoning.
Prepare 2 tablespoons of chopped fresh basil.
It's 2 of green onions, sliced.
It's 4 cups of marinara sauce, homemade or your favorote.

These Italian stuffed pasta shells are baked together with meat sauce and plenty of cheese to make an easy casserole. Stuffed Jumbo Shells are the perfect family dinner! Stir half of the shredded cheese and the Italian seasoning into the browned sausage. Arrange stuffed shells in prepared baking dish.

Italian Style Meat Stuffed Shells step by step

Preheat the oven to 375. Spray a pan latge enough to gold shells in one layerth non stick spray.
Cook pepperoni in a small skillet until crisp, remove to paper towel to drain.
Melt butter i the skillet and add onion and galic, season with salt and pepper and cook just until soft, cool.
Combine bread crumbs with cream, s let stand until absorbed.
In a large bowl combine meats with remaining filling ingredients, adding cooled onion,ixtue, soaked bread crumbs and crisp pepperoni finely crumblrd.
Add a layer of marinara sauce to prepated pan.
Fill shells with meat mixture.
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Press a cheese cube in the center of each filled she'll, covering it completely with the meat.
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Place shells in one layer in prepared pan.
Cover with some sauce.
Cover pan with foil and bake 50 minutes.
Remove foil add remaining cheese, then sprinkle with the italian seasoning, basil and green onion and cook until cheese is melted.
Serve with remaing sauce on the side..

Pour marinara sauce evenly over the shells. In an ovenproof dish, add a layer of tomato sauce first followed by the pasta shells that you will stuff with the filling mixture. Cover the stuffed pasta shells with more tomato sauce and garnish with slices of mozzarella, grated Parmigiano Reggiano and some pepper. Stuffed Shells are the ultimate creamy, cheesy baked pasta dish. Made with a creamy ricotta filling, and smothered in tomato sauce and cheese, Baked Shells is the perfect recipe to make when you are craving an Italian comfort food!