Kittencal's Meat-Stuffed Pasta Shells
Recipe: #3443
December 11, 2011
Categories: Ground Beef, Italian, Birthday, Brunch Christmas, Game/Sports Day, Potluck, Sunday Dinner, Oven Bake, Beef Dinner, Italian Dinner, Ground Beef Dinner, more
"Cook the shells only for about 5-6 minutes you do not want to cook them to the package directions or they will be too soft. The shells may be stuffed up to 2 days ahead covered then refrigerated until ready to bake. I use my own sauce to make these you can you you favorite however I do recommend using homemade it's always better! Here are two of my sauce recipes that work well with this recipe...#recipe3319 and #recipe23"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (411.4 g)
- Calories 956.7
- Total Fat - 52 g
- Saturated Fat - 20.5 g
- Cholesterol - 202.9 mg
- Sodium - 1732.8 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 57.6 g
- Dietary Fiber - 7.2 g
- Sugars - 8.2 g
- Protein - 62 g
- Calcium - 748.4 mg
- Iron - 6.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 3.9 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Cook pasta shells for only about 5 minutes; drain, rinse under cold water; set aside on a plate, then cover with plastic wrap to prevent the pasta from drying out.
Step 2
In large skillet cook the ground beef with onion until browned (the meat must be browned this will take about 10-12 minutes); drain fat. Add in garlic; cook for 2 minutes. Remove from heat then stir in bread crumbs, set aside to cool. Blend in egg, 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese, nutmeg, salt and pepper.
Step 3
Pour/spread 2 cups pasta sauce into bottom greased 13 x 9-inch baking dish. Using a small spoon carefully fill each shell with meat filling. Place stuffed shells side by side filling side up into baking dish. Spoon remaining 2 cups of pasta sauce over shells.
Step 4
Sprinkle generously with 1/2 cup or more Parmesan cheese. Cover with foil and bake in a preheated 375 degrees F for 30 minutes. Remove sprinkle with mozzarella cheese, return to oven, bake uncovered for another 15-20 minutes or until hot an bubbly. Delicious!
Tips
No special items needed.