Stuffed Pasta Shells With Meat
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It’s hard to find someone who doesn’t enjoy pasta, especially the little children. No matter how you make it, it’s simply impossible not to like. However, rather than tossing your boiled pasta with a type of sauce, sometimes you want to change things up a little.
Luckily, this pasta recipe is like no other. It’s a quick-to-make dish that can be highly addictive. Not only does it save you precious time, but it’s also outstandingly delicious. Plus, it’s perfect to feed your family over dinner as much as to serve a large crowd at a gathering.
What’s great about this specific recipe is that it’s packed with flavors and nutritious proteins. Yet, it’s also flexible. With some tweaks, you can always adjust this dish to fit other dietary needs.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Stuffed Pasta Shells With Meat
Doesn’t the meat have to be fried a bit before cooking?
No, because the meat will fall apart while cooking.
Is it enough to cook the meat for only 10 minutes? Looks great!
Even 15 minutes, I cook based on what it looks like. The pasta also gets half-cooked in water beforehand.
Stuffed Pasta Shells With Meat
Equipment
Ingredients
Meat:
- 2 lbs. ground beef (1 kg)
- A pinch of salt
- Some black pepper
- Cilantro (to taste)
Sauce:
- 2 large tomatoes
- 5 garlic cloves (minced)
- 1 onion (chopped)
- About 9 oz. tomato paste (about 250 g)
- 4 cups water (more or less, depending on how thick you like it)
Instructions
- It’s essential to make sure not to cook the pasta all the way through when you boil it. You just need it to be ‘al dente,’ so it doesn’t lose its shape and get smashed while cooking in the sauce.
- Check out the steps you should follow.
Pasta:
- Fill a large pot with water, add a teaspoon of salt, and bring it to a boil over high heat.
- Cook the pasta for about seven minutes.
- Transfer the cooked pasta into a strainer with ice to stop the cooking process immediately.
Meat:
- Put the ground beef in a medium bowl.
- Add the chopped onions, garlic, and cilantro.
- Season with salt and black pepper.
- Mix thoroughly and form little meatballs to put inside each pasta shell.
- Set aside to prepare the sauce.
Sauce:
- Add a little oil to a frying pan set on high heat.
- Fry the tomatoes with the garlic and tomato paste.
- Add approximately four cups of water (it depends on how thick you like your sauce to be).
- Season with salt, pepper, and cumin (adding a chopped half of green hot pepper is optional but adds a lot to the taste).
- Lower the flame and let the sauce bubble for a few minutes.
- Fill up the pasta shells with the meatballs.
- Arrange the pasta shells in a wide pot.
- Pour the sauce all over the pasta shells.
- Cover the pot and let it simmer over medium heat for about ten minutes.
- Serve and enjoy.
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“I made it yesterday and it came out amazing!”
Sherin Asoulin
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“I made it and the kids LOVED it! The big kid too (my husband LOL)”
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