Italian Ground Beef and Cheese Stuffed Shells Recipe

Tried and true family favorite! Delicious served with salad, garlic bread and tiramisu!

This is one of those recipes I posted when I first started blogging. Since it's a favorite of mine, I knew I had to do a new and updated post to share this awesome recipe with everyone again! The original post is here.

My Step-Mom and Dad had a couple exchange students from Korea staying with them for a week and I was super excited to have them over for dinner!


I decided to make this recipe because the flavor is amazing and it serves quite a few people! Everyone loved them and we even had leftovers.

We ate salad and Mini Garlic Monkey Breads for the sides. It was a perfect meal and it was so nice to hang out with Nary and Jay, the exchange students, and of course my family!

Here is Nary's photo of her plate!

Hope you love this recipe as much as we do!

Italian Ground Beef, Sausage and Cheese Stuffed Shells

by Sheena

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Ingredients (9x13 plus 8x8 pans)

• Filling:
• 1/2 cup onion, diced
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 1/2 pounds ground beef
• 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
• 2 cups shredded Mozzarella cheese
• salt and pepper, to taste
• Sauce:
• 1/2 cup onion, diced
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 2- 15 ounce cans tomato sauce
• 1- 14.5 ounce can petite diced tomatoes
• 4 cups tomato juice
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• olive oil
• salt and pepper, to taste
• 1-12 ounce package jumbo shells, cooked al dente according to package directions
• 1 cup shredded Mozzarella cheese for topping
• parmesan cheese, optional

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a large skillet, cook onions, garlic, ground beef, and Italian seasoning until beef is browned and onions are tender. Add mozzarella, stir until cheese is melted and remove from heat.

Meanwhile in a large saucepan, saute onions and garlic in olive oil for about 10 minutes over medium heat until onions are tender. Reduce heat and add the tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, tomato juice, sugar, salt and pepper. Simmer for 10 minutes.

Add one cup of sauce to the ground beef mixture and stir. Remove from heat.

Spread some sauce in the bottoms of a 9x13 and 8x8 inch baking dishes.

Stuff each shell by scooping meat and cheese mixture until full. Set in baking dish and repeat. I usually have a few extra shells leftover. Pour remaining sauce over shells and top each dish with shredded Mozzarella.

Bake for 35-45 minutes or until cheese is browned and sauce is bubbling.

Sprinkle parmesan cheese on top when serving!

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