Hello everybody, 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. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Jumbo pasta shells stuffed with ricotta, mozzarella and Parmesan, smothered in a mushroom tomato sauce and baked. Easy, cheesy Stuffed Shells that can be assembled and in the oven in a matter of minutes. ↓↓↓↓↓CLICK FOR MORE↓↓↓↓↓ Full Printable Recipe. Delicious Stuffed Shells are the perfect easy, weeknight dinner.
Stuffed Shells is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Stuffed Shells is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook stuffed shells using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Stuffed Shells:
- Make ready 16 jumbo pasta shells
- Take 2 small onions
- Make ready 1 stick butter/margarine
- Take 2 egg whites (or 1/3 cup egg beaters or equivalent)
- Prepare 15 ounce skim milk ricotta
- Make ready 8 ounce bag part skim mozzarella
- Make ready 1/2 cup parmesan or romano cheese
- Make ready 1/2 tsp. sugar
- Take 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
- Take 1/8 tsp. salt x2
- Prepare 1/8 tsp. pepper
- Prepare 1/4 bag spinach (2 oz.)
- Prepare 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 Stuffed Shells are filled with creamy ricotta, mozzarella, and parmesan cheese, baked in a simple tomato basil sauce. If some shells split during the cooking process, you may have a few fragments left over, but you. These easy Stuffed Shells are perfect to throw together on a weeknight and impressive enough to serve guests.
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.
They're saucy, oh-so-cheesy, and loaded with a ricotta, spinach, and parmesan filling. This is our favorite use for alfredo sauce yet. Pumpkin is good for way more than pies and lattes. Who could resist these jumbo pasta shells brimming with cheese and spinach and baked until perfectly melted and delicious? Aren't extra cheesy foods just the best foods?
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