Thursday, May 19, 2016

21 Day Fix Approved stuffed Shells

I LOVE pasta!!!! I wanted to find a meal that could be a little more than just the regular brown rice pasta I've been having. This uses ricotta cheese over a bunch of mozzarella cheese. It is sooo delicious!!! Saved some for my lunch tomorrow!! Looking forward to eating it again. LOL!


Ingredients

  • 25 Jumbo Shells (whole wheat if you can find them!)
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 lb ground beef (or turkey)
  • 1 small onion, diced
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • 1 cup ricotta cheese
  • 2 cups fresh spinach, chopped
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cups pasta sauce
  • 1 cup shredded mozzarella
  • salt and pepper

Directions

  1. Cook shells until el dante and set aside (TIP: I cooked mine earlier in the morning so it would cool down and be a little easier to work with).
  2. Heat oil over skillet and add garlic and saute for a few min.  Add ground meat and onions and season with salt and pepper.  Cook until meat is no longer pink. Set aside to cool.
  3. Heat some more oil and cook the spinach (if you want to or omit this step..I cooked mine ahead of time).
  4. Mix ricotta cheese, spinach and eggs in bowl.
  5. Once meat mixture is cooled, add to ricotta mixture.
  6. Pour 1/2 cup of pasta sauce in bottom of 9×13 dish.
  7. Stuff 25 pasta shells with roughly 2 tablespoons of mixture and place in baking dish. Pour remaining 1 1/2 cups of sauce over the shells and top with mozzarella cheese.
  8. Cover with aluminum foil and bake in oven at 400 for 30-35 minutes.
**21 Day Fix Containers (per 5 shells): 1 Yellow, 1 Red, 0.5 Purple, 0.5 Green, 1 Blue ***

No comments:

Post a Comment