Hey everyone, it’s Clark, I hope you are having an amazing day. Today I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, Cheese Filled Meatball Stuffed Jumbo Pasta Shells. This is one of my favourite food recipe, this time i’am gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Cheese Filled Meatball Stuffed Jumbo Pasta Shells Recipe.
You can have Cheese Filled Meatball Stuffed Jumbo Pasta Shells using 19 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Cheese Filled Meatball Stuffed Jumbo Pasta Shells
- It’s of MEATBALLS.
- Prepare 1 lb of lean ground beef.
- Take 1 lb of ground pork.
- Prepare 2 of cloves of garlic, minced.
- Take 1 of large shallot, chopped.
- Prepare 1/3 cup of cream, heavy, light or half and half.
- You need 1/3 cup of fresh breadcrumbs.
- Take 3 tbsp of romano cheese, fresh grated.
- Make ready 1/2 tsp of Italian seasoning blend.
- Make ready 1/2 tsp of black pepper, and salt to taste.
- It’s 1 tsp of hot sauce, such as Frank's brand.
- You need 1 of large egg, beaten.
- Make ready 1/3 lb of Italian four cheese blend , cut into 1 inch cubes and frozen while making meatballs.
- You need 1 tsp of olive oil.
- Take of PASTA AND SAUCE.
- It’s 1 box of jumbo pasta shells, you will need about 18 to 20, cooked.
- Make ready 1 of recipe marinara sauuce, recipe attached in direction step #9 or your favorite marinara sauce.
- Take of TOPPING.
- You need 1 1/2 cup of shredded Italian four cheese blend.
Cheese Filled Meatball Stuffed Jumbo Pasta Shells instructions
- 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.