Pasta shells. Pasta stuffed with minced meat

In total, it will take no more than an hour to prepare this dish. The result is a hearty, nutritious and very tasty hot dinner for the whole family. Products such as juicy minced meat, pasta and aromatic filling combine to give an amazing taste. This delicacy can surprise even the most sophisticated gourmets, although no exotic products are used here.

Pasta with minced meat in a frying pan - very convenient option, when you need to quickly feed the family after a working day or when unexpected guests are on the way. The dish belongs to Italian cuisine, and there, as you know, they know a lot and know how to create exquisite cuisine. Pasta is a very profitable solution when you want to replace potatoes with something, which we use almost every day. The resulting portion contains about 600 kcal, but if you eat pasta for lunch or breakfast, it will not be so dangerous for your figure. In addition, they are better absorbed if consumed with fresh vegetables.

To cook stuffed shells with minced meat in the oven and in a frying pan, you can take any product - both in the form of large tubes and shells. The latter are much more convenient to stuff with meat filling, so we will use them. As for minced meat, any will do - pork, beef or chicken. It all depends on what products are available and what you prefer.

Stuffed pasta shells in a frying pan

For this simple and quick recipe we will need large pasta shells, minced pork and beef. In addition, you will need some sour cream, cheese, an egg and your favorite seasonings.

Cooking minced meat traditional way: Grind the meat and mix with onion, salt, pepper and add the egg. For a more piquant taste, you can add ketchup to the minced meat, and to make it spicy, add a little adjika. The pasta must first be immersed in boiling water for 4-5 minutes so that it does not cook completely. Place the meat filling in each and place them in a frying pan lightly greased with vegetable oil.

Top this beauty with sauce. Mix sour cream with a small amount of ketchup (or tomato paste), add spices and a little water. The amount you receive should be enough to fill the entire pan and cover the pasta. The final touch is a sprinkle of grated cheese. Cover with a lid and place on the stove over medium heat. The pasta will simmer in the frying pan for 20-25 minutes until the minced meat is completely cooked. This dish is best served with vegetables and herbs.

For variety in chopped meat You can add onions and carrots, previously fried in vegetable oil.

Stuffed pasta shells with minced meat in the oven

Another original dish for a family dinner that will delight you with its exquisite taste. For it we need the following ingredients:

35 pieces of large pasta shells (also called conciglioni)
- 400 grams of minced meat (preferably pork, as it is fatty and adds juiciness to the dish)
- 200 grams of hard cream cheese;
- 1 egg;
- 2-3 pieces of sweet bell pepper;
- 1.5 tablespoons of sour cream and tomato paste;
- spices, salt, vegetable oil.

When serving, you can decorate with sprigs of fresh herbs.

Let's start cooking by preparing the pasta. Boil them in salted water for no more than 4-5 minutes until half cooked. To prevent them from sticking together during further cooking, place them in a colander and rinse cold water and add a little butter.

Fry the minced meat in vegetable oil and transfer to a container. Add salt, spices, onions, and grated cheese to it. Now it's time to make the sauce. In the same pan, fry the onion and add a little chopped garlic if desired. Cut it there bell pepper small cubes. Add tomato paste to the vegetables, pour in a glass of water. Stew the entire mixture well, pass through a meat grinder or grind with a blender.

Now we take the form in which we will bake the shells, pour a small amount of sauce on the bottom (about 1.-1.5 cm). Stuff the pasta and place in the mold. Add sour cream to the part of the sauce that is still left and pour in our conchiglioni. Sprinkle all this generously with grated cheese.

Place the dish in the oven to cook for 20 minutes, temperature – 200 degrees. As soon as a ruddy, appetizing cheese crust is formed, the shells are ready in the oven and you can take them out, decorate with chopped herbs and serve hot. Pasta in the oven turns out to be very high in calories, so those who are watching their figure should not get carried away with this delicacy at dinner. Although, it is really difficult to resist. Pasta stuffed with minced meat and sauce will be remembered at home for a long time.

Children can also be treated to such a fragrant and nutritious dish. The next day you can reheat the leftover pasta in the microwave and it will come out as soon as cooked!

I suggest you serve these beautiful, tasty and satisfying large shell pasta stuffed with minced meat on your holiday table. The recipe for this dish is simple and quite quick. Your guests will definitely love this original dish.

Pasta dishes are common in Russia, but not many people know that you can cook pasta stuffed with minced meat. The recipe for stuffed pasta with shells came to us from Italy. In this country, they have long learned to stuff pasta with different fillings. Large shell-shaped pasta (in Italy they are called “conciglioni”) is filled not only with minced meat, but also with mushrooms, seafood, and vegetables. Today we will prepare delicious stuffed shell pasta with minced meat in the oven, the recipe with photos is described in detail below. This dish is quite easy to prepare, but it turns out delicious and satisfying. It is suitable for family and holiday dinners, as it looks very elegant and impressive.

Minced meat can be used either single-component or combined.
Before stuffing the pasta, the shells must be opened until half cooked.
To prevent the shells from sticking together during cooking, you need to lower them one by one into boiling water.
It is best to use portioned dishes to prepare this dish.
It is necessary to use hard pasta “Shells”, especially for stuffing, so that it does not fall apart during cooking.

To prepare we need:

300 grams of minced meat, any kind, in our case pork;
35-40 pieces of large “Shell” pasta;
300 gr. hard cheese;
1 chicken egg;
1 small onion;
Bell pepper;
3 tbsp. sour cream;
half a head of small garlic;
1 tbsp. tomato paste;
2 tbsp. vegetable oil;
add salt, pepper, spices.

Cooking time: 30-40 minutes.
Calorie content - 165 kcal.

Preparation:

Step 1. First, let's prepare the minced meat. In a heated frying pan with the addition of vegetable oil, lightly fry the minced meat, stirring constantly, so that the minced meat does not become lumps. Salt, pepper and add spices to taste. After the minced meat is fried until golden brown, you need to cool it and add one egg and a little cheese. Mix the whole mass.

Step 2. Second phase. Let's prepare the “Shells” pasta for stuffing. In a large saucepan in salted water, boil the shells for 6-7 minutes until half cooked. As I said earlier, you need to throw shells into the water one by one. To prevent the pasta from sticking together, rinse it in a colander under running water and let the water drain. Then we stuff the shells with minced meat, but only carefully so as not to tear them.

Step 3. Next stage. Prepare the sauce, cut the peeled onion into small cubes, chop the garlic (with a knife only) and fry in the same frying pan where the minced meat was fried until translucent. To the same mixture add sweet pepper cut into small pieces. Simmer everything together for 2-3 minutes. Then add tomato paste and fry for another 5 minutes. Ready mixture blend with a blender for 30 seconds. And now the sauce is ready.

Step 4. Pour a little sauce into the bottom of the prepared forms and lay out the shells stuffed tightly with minced meat with cheese and egg, preferably in one row.

Step 5. Add sour cream to the second half of the sauce, mix and pour sour cream and tomato sauce over the stuffed pasta, maybe a quarter glass of water.

Step 6. The final stage. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater and sprinkle generously on our dish and put it in the oven for 20 minutes. Bake at a temperature of 180 Cº. When the shells are browned, you can serve.

Each housewife has her own signature recipe for preparing stuffed pasta shells with minced meat in the oven (you will find the photo below). Today we will try to look at the most popular recipe for this dish.

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Stuffed zucchini, zucchini boats with chicken

Typically, fried pasta is made from large types of pasta such as tubes and shells. They are first boiled and then filled with pre-prepared minced meat from various products. It's simple and quick dish, which generally does not require cost or time. It's more likely Italian recipe, but somewhat similar to our navy pasta. True, in it, pasta is mixed with minced meat, but here they are simply stuffed with minced meat.

Pasta shells stuffed with minced beef

As the name implies, the base of the minced meat will be either beef or pork. We will cook it in the oven according to the recipe with the photo. Dry pasta will be used.

So, we will need:

minced meat 0.5 kg;
large shell pasta;
bulb onions;
egg;
adjika 15 grams;
tomato paste;
sour cream;
sunflower oil 10 grams;
cheese 150 grams;
spices.

Recipe:

Let's prepare the filling. Add chopped onion, spices, adjika and egg to the minced meat and mix well.
You need to fill the pasta with this minced meat.
Next they are placed in a frying pan.
Prepare the sauce. Mix sour cream with tomato paste as desired, add adjika, oil, spices and a glass of water, but no more.
Pour this sauce over the pasta stuffed with minced meat, so that it is completely covered. Put it all in the oven and simmer until the pasta becomes softer. Grate the cheese and pour it on top, leave for 5 minutes and that’s it.
The dish is ready.

To do this you need:

large shells,
ground meat,
bell pepper,
tomato,
garlic,
oil,
salt.

Recipe:

The shell pasta should be boiled not quite until cooked, so that it becomes softer, and rinsed.
For the filling, fry the minced meat, add salt and some grated cheese.
Next, stuff the shells tightly and place them in a bowl. Chop the tomato, onion, pepper, fry it all, add garlic before turning off.
Place the vegetables on the pasta, sprinkle the remaining cheese, and pour in half a glass of water.
Bake in the oven at 200 degrees for 15 minutes.

Large shells specially made with large holes to make it easy to spread the filling. Such pasta can be found on the shelves of any supermarkets for a long time. You don’t need anything special for stuffed pasta; all the ingredients can be found in any kitchen.

Ingredients:

meat,
ketchup,
carrot,
onions and cheese.

Recipe with photo:

The meat is quickly ground in a blender. Finely chopped onions are fried along with carrots. Minced meat is added there and cooked until half cooked.
We put the resulting filling into each shell, but not too tightly and a lot.
Then place the stuffed pasta shells in the frying pan, open side up.
Separately, mix ketchup with water well and pour this mixture over the stuffed pasta. Put on fire.
When boiling, reduce the flame and cook until tender, this will take about fifteen minutes.
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and turn it off, sprinkle the macaroni with cheese and place in the oven just until the cheese melts.
Everything can be served to guests.

But, despite its simplicity, such a dish is not a shame to put on the festive table. Large shells will look impressive on the holiday table, especially if you serve some sauce with them. Let's look at the recipe with photos.

All you need is a little:

Ground beef,
shells,
lecho,
mayonnaise.

Recipe:

Fill the shells with minced meat and place in a deep bowl, pre-greased with oil.
For one glass of water, take approximately 150 grams of lecho and two tablespoons of mayonnaise, mix it all thoroughly.
Pour over the shells.
Place the dish in the oven.
When the minced meat and pasta are ready, you can start eating them.

Béchamel sauce is ideal for lasagne and stuffed shells baked in the oven with minced meat. Let's cook. Recipe with photo attached.

Of course, the recipes for this dish have Italian roots. But the variations of our housewives are in no way inferior to their brothers from abroad. Not everyone can afford to go to a real Italian restaurant, but everyone can go to the store and buy a pack of pasta, from which they can cook a delicious and wonderful dish.

To do this you need to take:

pasta,
ground meat,
tomatoes,
adjika,
garlic,
oil.

And the sauce consists of:

oils,
milk (cream).

Recipe:

Melt the butter in a frying pan, add flour, stir until smooth.
While adding milk, stir gently.
After boiling, cook a little. The sauce is ready .
Fry the garlic and remove it, put the minced meat in this oil.
Chop the peeled tomatoes, add to the minced meat, and add adjika.
At the same time, slightly boil the shell pasta.
When cool, stuff them with minced meat.
Lay out and pour over the sauce, add cheese and place in the oven for 25-30 minutes at 180 degrees.
Stuffed pasta in sauce is ready (as you can see in the photo, they are very appetizing).

We would like to present you a recipe for pasta stuffed with minced chicken and baked in the oven (recipe with photo). For four servings you need to take sixteen to twenty shells.

For them you will need somewhere:

three hundred grams of minced chicken,
spices,
dill,
milk,
flour,
butter.

Recipe:

Prepare the shells as directed on the package.
Chop the onion and fry along with the minced chicken, add salt and pepper, and add dill.
For the sauce, heat and mix butter, flour and milk.
During this time, the oven will just warm up to two hundred degrees.
Place pasta-shells stuffed with minced meat in it, covered with sauce.
Bake for ten to fifteen minutes.

The multitude of recipes for this dish (with and without photos) just makes your head spin and your mouth begins to water. Consider another great option called conciglione (large shells) with pumpkin and ricotta.

We will need:

1 kg pumpkin;
two glasses soft cheese, for example, Ricotta;
one glass of hard cheese, for example Parmesan;
conciglione pasta;
three glasses of tomato sauce;
half a glass of dry white wine;
ten cloves of garlic;
olive oil;
basil.

Recipe:

First you need to prepare the pumpkin, cut it into large slices, sprinkle with oil, salt and bake in the oven for half an hour.
Then add the garlic and leave for another fifteen minutes.
Afterwards, all this must be left to cool and knead until smooth. Sprinkle in the basil and add the ricotta and spices.
Pour wine and tomato sauce into a separate saucepan and place over medium heat and bring to a boil.
After this, reduce the heat and cook until thickened.
While the sauce is boiling, you need to thoroughly cook the shell pasta.
Afterwards they need to be dried and stuffed with prepared minced meat. And what is left should be put in a mold, and on top, as indicated in our recipe with a photo, stuffed pasta and pour the sauce over everything.
Sprinkle with Parmesan and basil and bake in the oven for about twenty minutes.

That seems to be all for today. But this is only a small part of the art of making pasta. There are a lot of recipes for stuffed pasta shells with minced meat in the oven, and their collection is growing every day. Such dishes will always decorate your table and delight your family and friends with their taste.

FILLING OPTIONS:

Of course, such dishes can be varied. It’s not for nothing that they say that you can eat pasta three times a day if you serve it with different sauces. Well, you can serve stuffed pasta in the oven not only with different sauces, but also with different fillings. And also serve them with all kinds of salads.

With mushrooms

Take two hundred grams of canned mushrooms and fifteen grams of dried ones. Cut the first ones, and pre-wash the second ones, fill them with water, and leave them for a while. Drain the liquid and chop the mushrooms. And then simmer in a frying pan with oil until the water completely disappears. Now mix all the mushrooms with cottage cheese, which you need to take two hundred and fifty grams, salt and pepper. Boil and stuff the shells. Grease a baking sheet and place the pasta on it. Pour tomato sauce about six hundred grams. Sprinkle cheese on top. Place the pasta stuffed with minced meat in the oven and bake for about half an hour at 200 degrees. When you serve, you can garnish with herbs.

With fish

We will make minced meat from cod fillet, one egg and one yolk, beets, onions, and bread. We pass it all through a meat grinder. It is better if the minced meat is small and small. Add eggs, salt, spices to it, mix and leave in the refrigerator for about twenty minutes. Just at this time we prepare the sauce. For it we need frozen krill meat, sour cream and cream, cheese and butter. Melt the latter in a frying pan, add the krill and simmer over low heat for about five minutes, then add sour cream, add cheese and simmer for another three minutes. We compact the minced meat into tubes, place the stuffed pasta in a saucepan or frying pan with high sides and pour boiling water over it. Let it cook until done. After that, put it on a plate and pour the sauce over it. Best served hot.

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With seafood

You can use crabs, shrimp, crab sticks and others. What do you have on this moment If you have it in the refrigerator, you can use it. You can try shells stuffed with shrimp. For four servings, this is about twelve shells, you need to take two hundred and fifty grams of cocktail shrimp and two hundred grams of crab sticks. How to cook these stuffed pasta shells. Boil them, rinse and leave. Crab sticks grate, add shrimp, two chopped garlic cloves and herbs. Mayonnaise, pepper, salt and sour cream are also added there, everything is thoroughly mixed. Spread the resulting mixture into shells, which are then placed on a baking sheet, and sprinkle cheese on top. Put this splendor in the oven and wait until the cheese melts.

These are the recipes (with photos and videos) for stuffed shell pasta with minced meat (not only meat) in the oven that we have prepared for you.

Stuffed pasta shells- one of the most delicious and attractive types Italian pasta. There are a great many options for preparing giant conchiglioni (this is the name this type of pasta bears). They are filled with minced meat, vegetable mixtures and even sweet fillings, which allows you to get a hearty main course, a delicious appetizer and an original dessert.

How to cook large pasta shells with filling?

Stuffed shells are an incredibly tasty, satisfying and impressively presented dish. Giant pasta can be filled dry and baked with sauce in the oven, or stuffed after boiling in salted water until al denete. Pasta is often filled with mushroom, meat, cheese, curd or vegetable fillings.

Large stuffed shells will retain their appetizing appearance if they are pre-cooked.
To prevent shells from breaking, you should cook them in large quantities water. You need to take out the finished pasta and let it dry.
If the recipe calls for baking dry stuffed pasta with sauce, you need to monitor the amount of sauce. He must tear the pasta completely, otherwise it will dry out in the oven.

Stuffed pasta shells with minced meat

Shells stuffed with minced meat - great option tasty and completely satisfying dish. The combination of pasta and minced meat is recognized as a classic and is widely represented in cooking. To prepare the filling, it is better to use two types of meat: beef and pork. The minced meat should be chopped - then it will retain its juiciness during baking.

Ingredients:

shells - 15 pcs.;
minced beef - 200 g;
minced pork - 100 g;
onion - 1 pc.;
clove of garlic - 3 pcs.;
mozzarella - 50 g;
cream - 50 ml;
fresh parsley - a handful.

Preparation

Fry onion, garlic and minced meat.
Boil the shells.
Fill them with meat filling, cheese and cream.
Bake shells stuffed with meat for 7 minutes at 220 degrees.
Garnish with herbs and serve.

One of the most popular ways preparing this type of pasta. The peculiarity of the recipe is that dry shells are filled with minced meat and baked with sauce. Sour cream sauce is especially appropriate here: it will add juiciness, tenderness and slight sourness. For the dish to be successful, the shells must be completely hidden under the sauce.

Ingredients:

shells - 350 g;
minced meat - 500 g;
onion - 1 pc.;
egg - 1 pc.;
cheese - 100 g;
semolina - 100 g;
sour cream - 300 g;
water - 150 ml.

Preparation

Combine minced meat, grated cheese, semolina and egg.
Stuff the shells.
For sour cream sauce, simmer the onion in sour cream and water.
Place shell pasta stuffed with minced meat in a mold and pour sauce over it.
Bake under foil at 230 degrees for 30 minutes.

Stuffed pasta shells with minced meat and pepper

They will become tastier and juicier if you add bell pepper to the filling. The latter will give the dish freshness, aroma, appetizing and eliminate the need to prepare a vegetable side dish. Pepper goes well with pork and complements its sweetish taste, so when choosing minced meat, it is better to use pork.

Ingredients:

shells - 12 pcs.;
pepper - 1 pc.;
minced pork - 250 g;
cream - 80 ml;
onion - 1 pc.;
cheese - 150 g.

Preparation

Fry the pepper, onion and minced meat.
Add cream and 100 g of grated cheese to the resulting mixture.
Fill the cooked shells with minced meat and sprinkle with the remaining cheese.
Bake the stuffed shell pasta for 15 minutes at 180 degrees.

Stuffed shells with bechamel sauce

Stuffed shells are an example of how to properly serve a classic pasta casserole. This sauce is often used in pasta dishes, adding tenderness and making the dish more filling and creamy. With bechamel, you can use almost any filling, since the sauce is universal.

Ingredients:

shells - 250 g;
minced beef - 500 g;
nutmeg - 5 g;
butter - 120 g;
flour - 80 g;
milk - 750 ml;
onion - 1 pc.

Preparation

Fry the minced meat and onion.
Boil the shells.
Stuff the shells with minced meat.
For the sauce, melt the butter and add flour.
While stirring, add milk.
Wait for a homogeneous consistency and season.
Pour the sauce over the stuffed shell pasta and bake at 180 degrees for 25 minutes.

Shells stuffed with mushrooms

Simple and tasty dish, which does not require much time and labor. You just need to fry the chopped chicken fillet and champignons, and stuff the pasta with them. Since the minced mushrooms and chicken are juicy on their own, the shells are cooked without sauce, with butter and cheese. Before going into the oven, cover the pasta with foil.

Preparation

shells - 250 g;
chicken fillet - 150 g;
champignons - 150 g;
onion - 1 pc.;
butter - 50 g;
cheese - 100 g.

Preparation

Fry the fillet, onions and mushrooms.
Boil the shells.
Add the filling, butter and cheese.
Bake at 220 degrees for 15 minutes under foil.

The recipe for stuffed shells can be modified to suit your taste and lifestyle. Adherents of a vegetarian diet will quickly turn the dish into a lean one if they stuff the pasta with vegetables. For filling, it is better to choose juicy and meaty vegetables, such as tomatoes and eggplant. They will saturate the pasta with juice and will not “go soggy” during cooking.

Ingredients:

shells - 250 g;
clove of garlic - 2 pcs.;
tomato - 2 pcs.;
eggplant - 1 pc.;
onion - 1 pc.;
cheese - 60 g;
tomato juice - 350 ml.

Preparation

Chop the vegetables and fry for 5 minutes.
Stuff boiled shells with vegetable mixture.
Stuffed vegetarian pasta shells tomato juice, sprinkle with cheese and bake at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.

Stuffed shells in a frying pan in sour cream are simple, budget-friendly and quick recipes. The advantage of this option is that dry pasta is filled with raw ground beef and stewed in sour cream sauce under the cover on regular frying pan. With this cooking method, stuffed pasta can be served in just 20 minutes.

Ingredients:

shells - 10 pcs.;
minced meat - 250 g;
onion - 1 pc.;
tomatoes - 1 pc.;
broth - 500 ml;
sour cream - 250 g;
cheese - 60 g.

Preparation

Add onions and tomatoes to the minced meat.
Stuff dry shells with minced meat and place them in a frying pan.
Simmer the dish in sour cream and broth for 20 minutes.
Sprinkle with cheese when serving.

Stuffed shell pasta with minced meat in a slow cooker will surprise your household not only with its taste, but also with its speed of preparation. Thanks to modern gadget You can have tender pasta in a thick tomato sauce in just 40 minutes. Housewives only need to fill the shells with minced meat and, after pouring sour cream, pasta and water, set the “Stew” mode.

Servings: 6
Cooking time: 1 hour 20 minutes.

Recipe Description

Stuffed shell pasta cooked in the oven is a delicious dinner or lunch for the whole family. This recipe combines three types of cheese - ricotta, mozzarella and Parmesan, as well as spinach with minced beef. All this is baked in the oven with a delicious tomato sauce. A very aromatic, spicy and satisfying dish, like everything in Italian cuisine, which I love very much.

Today I invite you to share my love for Italian cuisine and make these delicious stuffed pasta shells. If you don’t have these imported cheeses, you can easily replace them, for example, with cottage cheese, suluguni cheese and any hard cheese, well, at least Russian.

Oven Stuffed Pasta Shells is one of my family's favorite dinners. And what’s important is that our children eat, no one has ever moved their plate away. Because stuffed shells are really delicious.

The recipe contains garlic because garlic is synonymous with Italian cooking, but still, I'm not that big of a garlic fan. I like it, of course, but I want it to enhance the flavor of the dish and not overwhelm all the other flavors. Therefore, I advise you to put it in moderation.

The second tip is that when buying pasta, you need to check that it is all intact. If the box is not transparent and this is not possible, it is better to buy two packages, because these boxes contain up to a third of broken shells.

Well, one last thing: if you are not a fan of spinach, replace it with champignons fried with onions - this filling also goes well with cheese and will have an excellent taste.

To prepare stuffed shell pasta, you need:

1 package of Jumbo (or other) shells;
4 cups ricotta cheese or cottage cheese;
250 g chopped mozzarella cheese (or suluguni);
2 eggs;
2-3 cloves of garlic;
1 teaspoon dried oregano;
3/4 cup grated Parmesan (or any hard cheese);
500 ml of any sweet sauce (Chumak Kuharsky, Krasnodar, Marinara);
4 cups spinach leaves, stems removed;
400 g ground beef;
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper;
finely chopped parsley.

Cooking step by step:

Heat a frying pan over medium heat, add the minced meat and fry it until Brown, stirring constantly to form a crumbly mass. Place the fried minced meat on a sieve to remove excess fat.

Add a tablespoon of vegetable oil with finely chopped garlic to the pan. Fry it, stirring constantly, for about 1 minute, and then add the spinach. Cook, continuing to stir for another 2 minutes, until the spinach wilts.

Cook the shell pasta according to package directions (I cook it al dente - that is, until half cooked). Remove them from the water and place them on the table to cool.

In a bowl, combine ricotta cheese, half the mozzarella, 2/3 Parmesan, eggs, oregano and black pepper, as well as the spinach and garlic.

Stuff the boiled shells with the cheese filling, filling each with about 1 tablespoon of filling.

Prepare a small deep baking sheet or baking dish. Pour half the tomato sauce into the bottom of the pan and place the shells filled with the cheese mixture on top.

Sprinkle the browned mince on top of the stuffed pasta, then pour the remaining tomato sauce over it.

Sprinkle the remaining Parmesan and mozzarella over the sauce. Cover the baking sheet with aluminum foil and bake at 350 degrees F for 25-35 minutes (or until the cheese is bubbly). If you like a cheese crust, you can keep the baking sheet in the oven without foil for an additional 3-5 minutes (watch carefully so that the dish does not burn).