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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have cheese filled meatball stuffed jumbo pasta shells using 19 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Cheese Filled Meatball Stuffed Jumbo Pasta Shells:
- MEATBALLS
- 1 lb lean ground beef
- 1 lb ground pork
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced
- 1 large shallot, chopped
- 1/3 cup cream, heavy, light or half and half
- 1/3 cup fresh breadcrumbs
- 3 tbsp romano cheese, fresh grated
- 1/2 tsp Italian seasoning blend
- 1/2 tsp black pepper, and salt to taste
- 1 tsp hot sauce, such as Frank's brand
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 1/3 lb Italian four cheese blend , cut into 1 inch cubes and frozen while making meatballs
- 1 tsp olive oil
- PASTA AND SAUCE
- 1 box jumbo pasta shells, you will need about 18 to 20, cooked
- 1 recipe marinara sauuce, recipe attached in direction step #9 or your favorite marinara sauce
- TOPPING
- 1 1/2 cup shredded Italian four cheese blend
These Chicken Alfredo Stuffed Shells are perfect for a Jumbo pasta shells filled with a mixture of sweet Italian sausage, spinach and ricotta cheese. Smothered in a chunky red sauce and topped with. Jumbo pasta shells - This recipe will also work for manicotti or cannelloni, however as those types of pasta are a bit larger than jumbo shells you may need more filling. Ricotta cheese - Whipped cottage cheese would be a good substitute if needed.
Instructions to make Cheese Filled Meatball Stuffed Jumbo Pasta Shells:
- Preheat oven to 400. Line a baking sheet with foil and spray foil with non stick spray
- Combine breadcrumbs, beaten egg and cream in a bowl to soak, set aside
- Heat olive oil in a small skillet, add shallot and garlic and cook until softened, set aside to cool
- In a large bowl combine ground beef, ground pork, romano cheese, Italian seasoning, salt, pepper, hot sauce, soaked breadcrumbs with all liquid and cooled shallot and garlic. Mix with a fork or your hands until well combined
- Form meatballs into an oval shape to fit inside the cooked jumbo shell
- Flatten ball to place a frozen cheese cube in the center
- Completely enclose cheese cube in meat ball
- Continue to form meatballs with chesse cubes. Place on prepared pan and bake 15 to 20 minutes just until cooked
- Place a cooked jumbo shell on work surface, put about a tablespoon of marinara sauce in shell, then fit one meatball in. Marinara sauce recipe attached below - - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/366612-simple-basic-marinara-sauce
- At this point to cook all of the meatball stuffed shells place in a baking dish large enough to hold them in a single layer, before adding them to baking dish add a layer of marinara sauce then the stuffed shells, topping with more marinara sauce and shredded cheese. Bake at 375 just until hot about 15 to 20 minutes. An alternative is to frezze the shells individually and take out as many as you want. Cover a serving dish with sauce add your shells, topping with more sauce and shredded cheese and microwave or bake until hot
Stuff a tablespoon of ricotta mixture into a jumbo shells, then stuff a meatball into the shells. Jumbo pasta shells are stuffed with a smooth, creamy, cheesy filling flavored with fresh herbs and baked to absolute perfection. Cover shells with remaining sauce and sprinkle mozzarella cheese on top. Mix well and fill each cooked pasta shell. Jumbo pasta shells, stuffed with a mixture of Italian sausage, spinach, ricotta and Parmesan cheeses, surrounded by tomatoes and baked until Fill each cooked pasta shell with some of the ricotta, spinach, sausage mixture.
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