Recipe: Tasty Stuffed Jumbo pasta shells

Stuffed Jumbo pasta shells. Find Deals on Jumbo Pasta Shells For Stuffing in Pasta & Noodles on Amazon. Rub the dried herbs in the palms of your hands to pulverize them, and stir into the cheese mixture. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.

Combine cheeses and spinach; stuff into shells. Pour spaghetti sauce over the shells. Stuffed Shells with Meat and Cheese are a delicious pasta dish you can make for dinner any night. You can cook Stuffed Jumbo pasta shells using 9 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Stuffed Jumbo pasta shells

1. Prepare 1/2 box of jumbo pasta shells (it made 16).
2. It's 2 pounds of ground beef or ground chuck.
3. You need As needed of diced bell peppers(I used Tri color).
4. You need As needed of diced yellow onion (I love onion so I used whole one).
5. Prepare As needed of minced garlic.
6. It's 2 jars of Pasta sauce (homemade or bought).
7. It's As needed of seasonings: Italian & Tuscany, garlic and onion powder, hamburger seasoning, & couple others.
8. You need As needed of shredded assortment of cheeses(Mozzarella being the main, sharp cheddar, pepper jack, cream cheese, cottage cheese.
9. Prepare A few of spoonfuls of MILD Rotel tomatoes to add to meat frying (also reserved a lil juice from can for one of the different steps).

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! Pipe the ricotta mixture into the shells and arrange them opening-side up in the baking dish. Stuffed Shells are an Italian-American pasta dish featuring jumbo shells stuffed with a ricotta filling and covered with sauce.

Stuffed Jumbo pasta shells step by step

1. Preheat oven to 375.
2. Dice up all your veggies..
3. 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..
4. Drain shells, line up and let dry on a piece of parchment paper, so u can fill them later..
5. Add your ground beef & veggies(onion & bell peppers, garlic, assorted seasonings, mild rotel tomatoes to a pan and cook on stovetop until done. Drain..
6. 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..
7. 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..
8. 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..
9. 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..
10. 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..
11. 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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Popular fillings for stuffed shells are Three-Cheese, Spinach and Cheese, and of course, Stuffed Shells with Meat! Jumbo pasta shells are stuffed with a delicious three cheese mixture of ricotta cheese, shredded whole milk Mozzarella cheese, and fresh grated Parmesan cheese. To give the filling some extra flavor, I love to add some fresh herbs like basil and parsley. Don't forget a dash of oregano and some fresh garlic. Mix well and fill each cooked pasta shell.