Try this easy stuffed shells recipe next time you want to make a hearty dinner and the secret is they will think it took hours, but it doesn’t. Then serve it up with some beautiful asparagus for a delicious meal.
Easy Stuffed Shells Recipe
This weekend I needed to make dinner for family coming to town. I needed something that would fill them up and taste great. I decided to make an easy five cheese jumbo stuffed shells recipe with roasted asparagus. I knew my husband would be thrilled, and I was right.
This Italian inspired pasta meal comes together so easy and most of the time is in the baking, but we had it on the table in just a short time.
I started with two jars of Bertolli® Five Cheese sauce. In addition to the cheese I add in the shells, I get cheese in the sauce too. So much more flavor than regular marinara. Find the rest of the recipe below.
For the Asparagus, I lined a cookie sheet with aluminum foil and placed the cleaned and trimmed asparagus on it. Then I drizzled olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder and Parmesan cheese on top. I baked it for 13 minutes at 425 °.
Easy Stuffed Shells Recipe
- 2 Jars of Five Cheese Sauce
- 1 8 oz Box of Jumbo shells
- 30 oz of Ricotta Cheese
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup of Grated Romano Cheese
- 8 oz of grated Parmesan Cheese
- 8 oz of Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
- Fresh Basil Chopped
- Salt
- Pepper
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
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Place shells in salted boiling water in a large pot for 1/2 the time listed on the box. Drain and rinse in cool water.
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In a large bowl, mix the Ricotta, salt, pepper, basil, egg, Romano and 1/2 of the Parmesan.
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In a 9 X 13 pan place 1/2 of one jar of sauce in bottom of pan.
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Fill the shells with cheese mixture and place face down lined up in pan.
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Add remaining sauce from first jar on top. Continue to add shells and use 2nd jar of sauce on top and sprinkle Mozzarella cheese and remaining Parmesan Cheese.
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Bake in oven for 25 minutes.
Tips for filling the Cheese stuffed shells
Quick Tip: After mixing cheeses in a bowl, fill a pastry bag with mixture. Then fill each shell. This will cut your time in half. If you don’t have pastry bags, you can use a large baggie and cut a hole in the bottom corner.
I served this 5 cheese stuffed shells with roasted asparagus and some dinner rolls. We were able to eat off of it for two meals and that is always a good thing.
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I grew up in a big Italian family, so meals like this are a staple in my life. OMG yours looks so YUM!
This recipe looks SO yummy. The hubbie would love it!
These look delicious and not that hard to make! I thought stuffed shells would be a lot more complicated but these are worth a try. Thanks!
YUM! These stuffed shells look so yummy! They also look really easy to cook – which is a “must” for my meals! And I can freeze half of them so win-win!
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I love this recipe. Excited bc I can make it gluten free! Good incorporation of veggies with your carb!
This sounds absolutely amazing! I really love cheesy pasta dishes and this seems like just the ticket!
Only my oldest and myself like Italian food and I really try to stay away from pasta. SO once in a great while as a treat for my oldest, I will make him his own pan of lasagna or just last weekend I made him an entire pan of stuffed shells. He ate it for dinner all week! These look good and super easy to make. Maybe I should teach him this recipe!
Gosh..this looks so delicious! I love Italian food and everything about it I will say yes -:) I’ve never tried the combination of pasta and Asparagus, but I bet they complimenet each other.
I love stuffed shells. My mom used to make these for me as a kid only they had broccoli in them. So good! I only wish my son liked ricotta so I could make them now.
Oh wow. These look so good. I can’t wait to try them out and see what the family thinks. Thanks for sharing.
Thats one big pasta pan! That looks delicious! I need to make pasta more often than I do, we try to stay away from it otherwise we would be eating it on a daily basis!
I made this last night and my husband LOVED it! It’s going in our weekly rotation.
I admit that I’m horrible when it comes to making Italian food because I’m not a big fan of it. Yours look so good and easy! Can’t wait to try it!
Yum! This looks awesome! I am always afraid to make things like this because it seems complicated, apparently not so complicated! I am going to have to try it for this weekend!
I’m a huge cheese fan, and carbs to – especially pasta. This would be perfect for me when I’m craving both, perfect recipe! Thanks for sharing 🙂
You have read my mind I was literally thinking of what I could cook for a midnight feast. Thank you for the inspiration x
This looks really tasty and pretty easy to make – the best part. The more cheese the better is what I always say.
This sounds delicious and seems pretty easy to make! I’ll have to try this.
Southern Soul
These look delicious and I would LOVE to add them to our weekly menu! I know my son would love the shells, he always wants the shell “Mac N Cheese.” Maybe this would finally entice him to eat something other than Kraft dinner.
Omg these stuffed shells look amazing!!!!! So giving your recipe a try! I’m sure the family will love them.
Yum this definitely my type of food I think j may try this as soon as Saturday thanks !! Love it !!
This looks like such a good dinner idea. I’m going to pin it to my food to try board for a future dinner idea.
This recipe could easily become a family favorite! YUM!
Looks delicious! Thank you for sharing at Merry Monday!
Omg this recipe looks so yummy and simple! I’ve been wanting to do a few dinners during the week that aren’t meat based, so this is perfect! Pinning to my dinner board now, thanks for sharing! 🙂
Wonderful! I will be making this easy dish a lot! I love noodles.