Recipe: Appetizing Stuffed Jumbo pasta shells

Delicious, fresh and Yummy.

Stuffed Jumbo pasta shells. Delicious Stuffed Shells are the perfect easy, weeknight dinner. Jumbo pasta shells are stuffed with a smooth, creamy, cheesy filling flavored with fresh herbs and baked to absolute perfection. Jumbo pasta shells stuffed with ricotta, mozzarella and Parmesan, smothered in a mushroom tomato sauce and baked.

Stuffed Jumbo pasta shells Jumbo pasta shells stuffed with three types of cheeses and topped with marinara and fresh basil! Jumbo pasta shells stuffed with mozzarella, ricotta and parmesan cheese. Topped with marinara and baked until tender and gooey. You can cook Stuffed Jumbo pasta shells using 9 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Stuffed Jumbo pasta shells

  1. It's 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. Prepare As needed of diced yellow onion (I love onion so I used whole one).
  5. You need As needed of minced garlic.
  6. Prepare 2 jars of Pasta sauce (homemade or bought).
  7. Prepare As needed of seasonings: Italian & Tuscany, garlic and onion powder, hamburger seasoning, & couple others.
  8. It's As needed of shredded assortment of cheeses(Mozzarella being the main, sharp cheddar, pepper jack, cream cheese, cottage cheese.
  9. You need 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).

Add salt and oil, add pasta. Place one tablespoon filling into each pasta shell. Are you looking for a pasta dish that always brings a smile to the faces of children and grownups alike? No-Boil Pasta Shells: Don't want the extra step of boiling the pasta?

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..
  12. Another pic.
  13. Another pic.

Soak the shells in a large boil of hot salted tap water while you preheat the oven and make the ricotta. Cheesy Taco Stuffed Shells made with jumbo pasta shells, salsa, cheese and taco meat are the perfect EASY weeknight meal that you can prepare ahead of time too! Taco Stuffed Shells are an easy dinner of stuffed jumbo pasta shells with ground beef. Mix well and fill each cooked pasta shell. A wide variety of jumbo pasta shells options are available to you Vegan Stuffed Jumbo Shells are flavorful and satisfying.