Meat Stuffed Shells
Jumbo pasta shells stuffed with flavorful meat filling baked in marinara sauce then topped with mozzarella cheese. Perfect for company, or make into smaller servings and freeze for meal-prep.
Servings: 12 3-Shell Servings
Calories: 447kcal
Ingredients
- 12- ounce box jumbo pasta shells
- 1 pound Italian sausage
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1/2 cup Italian breadcrumbs
- 1 cup grated parmesan cheese divided
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup minced onions
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons fresh chopped parsley
- 4 cups pasta sauce jarred is fine
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- Preheat an oven to 350⁰F.
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and cook the pasta shells for 10 minutes. Do not cook completely, the pasta will continue cooking during the baking process.
- While the pasta is cooking, fill a large bowl with ice water.
- When pasta has finished cooking, remove from the boiling water and put into the ice water.
- In a large bowl, combine the raw meats, breadcrumbs, ½ cup parmesan cheese, eggs, minced onions, garlic powder, black pepper, and fresh parsley. Mix well to combine.
- Prepare a large baking dish or 9 X 13 cake pan by spraying with cooking spray.
- Place 2 cups of pasta sauce into the bottom of the baking dish.
- Drain the cooked and cooled pasta shells and fill with the raw meat mixture. Place the shells into the baking dish.
- Once all of the shells have been stuffed and placed into the baking dish, cover with 2 cups of sauce.
- Sprinkle with 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese.
- Cover with foil and place into the refrigerator until ready to cook or cook immediately.
- To cook meat stuffed shells, preheat an oven to 350⁰F and remove the shells from the refrigerator.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes or until the meat and shells are completely cooked.
- Remove from the oven, remove foil, cover with mozzarella cheese and place back into the oven and continue baking until the cheese has melted.
- Remove from the oven and serve.
Notes
Meat stuffed shells can be assembled and frozen or refrigerated and baked off later. Allow frozen shells to thaw before baking.
Meat stuffed shells can be frozen in an individual layer then placed in an airtight freezer container for assembling later.
Nutritional data proved is based using simple marinara sauce.
Nutrition
Serving: 3meat stuffed shells | Calories: 447kcal | Carbohydrates: 36.3g | Protein: 39.4g | Fat: 19.4g | Saturated Fat: 6.9g | Cholesterol: 103mg | Sodium: 799mg | Fiber: 3.5g | Sugar: 8.8g
