Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, italian style meat stuffed shells. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Today, we are stuffing these giant shells, known as Conchiglie in Italian, with a mixture of meat and cheese. 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.
Italian Style Meat Stuffed Shells is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Italian Style Meat Stuffed Shells is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook italian style meat stuffed shells using 26 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Italian Style Meat Stuffed Shells:
- Prepare 25-30 jumbo pasta shells, precooked just until tender
- Prepare For Fillimg
- Make ready 1 pound ground beef
- Take 1 pound italian sausage, hot or mild casings removed
- Take 1 small onion, minced
- Prepare 12 slices pepperoni
- Prepare 2 garlic cloves, minced
- Prepare 1 tablespoon butter
- Prepare 1/2 cup fresh italian bread, crusts removed made into crumbs
- Prepare 1/4 cup heavy cream
- Take 2 tablespoons sour cream
- Take 1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
- Make ready 1 teaspoon italian seasoning
- Make ready 2 tablespoon fresh chopped basil
- Take 1/4 cup fresh grated romano cheese
- Take to taste salt and pepper
- Get 1 egg, lightly beaten
- Make ready 1 cup shredded italuan 4 cheese blend shredded
- Make ready For cheese center
- Take 26-30 cubes creamy jack cheese or any good melting cheese
- Get For Topping
- Prepare 2 cuos italian four cheese blend, shredded
- Get 1/4 teaspoon italian seasoning
- Take 2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil
- Prepare 2 green onions, sliced
- Get 4 cups marinara sauce, homemade or your favorote
Some eggs are mixed in to help bind everything together. And the filling also gets a hefty dose of shredded mozzarella cheese. The cheese adds to the great flavor, and of course, brings its fabulous cheesiness! Stir half of the shredded cheese and the Italian seasoning into the browned sausage.
Steps to make Italian Style Meat Stuffed Shells:
- 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
- Press a cheese cube in the center of each filled she'll, covering it completely with the meat
- 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.
Arrange stuffed shells in prepared baking dish. Pour marinara sauce evenly over the shells. 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! I suggest serving these Baked Shells with Homemade Garlic Toast and a Greek Salad for one delicious meal!
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