Mexican Shells
Recipe: #4352
January 26, 2012
Categories: Ground Beef, Tomato, Fathers Day, Game/Sports Day, Sunday Dinner, Oven Bake, Beef Dinner, Ground Beef Dinner, more
"A new twist on Italian Shells. I got this from a friend who promised it would be good. It was very good."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (365.8 g)
- Calories 749.2
- Total Fat - 42.1 g
- Saturated Fat - 17 g
- Cholesterol - 132.6 mg
- Sodium - 1434.9 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 41.8 g
- Dietary Fiber - 5.3 g
- Sugars - 6.6 g
- Protein - 50.3 g
- Calcium - 595.5 mg
- Iron - 5.4 mg
- Vitamin C - 6.8 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Boil the pasta shells; saute onion in a small amount of oil and cook till done; drain off fat.
Step 2
Add 1/2 can of tomato sauce and 1/2 cup salsa; add 1 cup of the cheese to pan and mix well.
Step 3
In the bottom of a baking dish that will hold all 12 shells, put the other half of tomato sauce and 1/2 cup of salsa; stuff the shells with hamburg mixture and put in baking dish.
Step 4
Cover with foil and bake in a 350 degree oven for 30 minutes; remove foil and top with other cup of cheese and the onion rings.
Step 5
Bake a few more minutes to melt the cheese and toast he onion rings.
Tips
No special items needed.