Recipe: Perfect Stuffed Shells with Meat Sauce

Stuffed Shells with Meat Sauce. The stuffed shells get nested right into the sauce then bake until the cheese is melted and tomatoes are bubbling. A wonderful meal that can be made ahead of time or frozen and reheated for a How do you make stuffed shells? Cook sausage for the meat sauce.

While the sauce is cooking, throw jumbo pasta shells in boiling water. Classic stuffed shells got an Instant Pot makeover! No need to pre-cook the pasta means no dirtying extra pot. You can have Stuffed Shells with Meat Sauce using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Stuffed Shells with Meat Sauce

1. You need 1 lb of turkey sausage- browned and drained.
2. You need 32 oz of jar of garlic & onion spaghetti sauce.
3. Prepare 20 oz of part skim ricotta cheese.
4. It's 4 oz of shredded parmesan cheese.
5. Prepare 12 oz of shredded mozz or italian blend cheese.
6. Prepare 1 of egg.
7. Prepare 4 oz of frozen chopped spinach- thawed and drained.
8. Prepare 18 of large pasta shells- cooked and drained.
9. It's 1/4 tsp of garlic salt.
10. Prepare to taste of cracked pepper.

It's so much faster that way. Instant Pot Stuffed Shells with Meat Sauce. Stuffed shells have never been SO EASY!!! Jumbo pasta shells stuffed with ricotta cheese, mozzarella and spinach topped with a turkey meat sauce.

Stuffed Shells with Meat Sauce instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
2. In a small bowl, mix the parmesan and mozzarella cheese,this will be divided in half..
3. In a medium bowl combine ricotta, 1/2 parm/mozz mixture from small bowl, egg, spinach, garlic salt, and pepper..
4. Pour 1 cup of sauce in the bottom of 8x12 baking dish. Spread evenly. Be sure to cost the walls of the dish also..
5. Gently stuff each cooked shell with a spoonful of the cheese/spinach mix and place in baking dish..
6. When finished, sprinkle sausage over and around shells..
7. Cover shells with remaining sauce..
8. Sprinkle the remaining cheese mix on the sauce, cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes or until bubbly around edges..

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