Spinach & Sausage Stuffed Pasta Shells

This was a great recipe. I made a healthier version using 50 % less fat sausage and low fat cheeses. Next time I will make this with ground turkey sausage, to cut the fat even more. Very tasty and filling. Made the whole recipe and froze half of it for a no prep second meal. For 2 people it was 4 meals.

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I thought this was a decent recipe. I would use more spices to liven things up a bit and I omitted the cheddar cheese from the mix. It seemed a bit too velveta-ish with all those cheeses mixed together. I substituted some freshly grated Romano instead and the taste was great. Thanks

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AMAZING! Cooked italian sausage and frozen spinach leaves for this. Use food processor to minced sausage, spinach, onion, and garlic. Mixed with cheese in a bowl and then spooned into pasta shells. It was delicious and will go in my meal rotation. Love the ricotta cheese! Thanks for posting!

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LOOOOOVED this! I made ahead and froze all shells in one container. When we wanted to eat them, we took out how many we wanted and baked covered for 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Then followed the directions of 30 minutes uncovered. Also, we put a little cheese on top for the last 5 minutes (I know, not very healthy) and it was great! Thanks for the great recipe, it will be used again!

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I have made this twice, both times I made with fresh spinach, all mozzarella & only 2 eggs with great results. The addition of 2 cloves of garlic and a chopped onion to the cooked sausage really added some nice flavor to the dish. I reserved 1/2 c. of the cheese for the topping & probably used a lot more sauce than called for.
Two really great shortcuts I used was to combine all filling ingredients in the food processor for quicker prep & using a small cookie dough scoop sped up the filling process. It took much longer the first time when I piped it in each shell from a large pastry bag.
This makes A LOT. I had a 13x9 pan; 8x8 pan & a 9 inch pie pan of shells! They freeze well! Thanks for sharing.

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I have made this recipe twice with great results; one with sausage and one vegetarian...The recipe will probably make more than the average family will eat in one meal...that being said...make sure to get a large Ziploc bag to freeze the left over filled shells..they freeze well and the taste was not affected when I made them again 3 weeks later..I did tweek it a bit using only mozzarella cheese instead of the combination of mozzarella and cheddar cheese. I increased the cooking time to 45 minutes.. The vegetarian version used 2 -10 ounce packages of frozen spinach with great results...a good spaghetti sauce complements the shells...I have not used fresh spinach..but I can only imagine it would taste better as frozen spinach can get a bit stringy sometimes...Thank you for the recipe.....

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Excellent recipe. My kids loved this and didn't even know they were eating spinach. I did need to add additional seasoning (garlic salt and italian seasoning). I also substituted a mix of Italian Cheeses for the Cheddar cheese.

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This is pretty phenomenal also when you skip the cheddar, double the mozzarella and use alfredo sauce in place of the spaghetti sauce. It's well worth a try! Thanks for sharing!

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Absolutely scrumptious! I made these for a ladies aid luncheon and they went really quickly! The few that I had left over, I brought home and my children gobbled up! Will make these again and again!

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Made this as part ten different side dishes for thanksgiving. Had to bake it a little bit longer cause my oven is funky.

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Very Good! I added some seasonings to the sausage mixture - for a half batch I put in about 1 1/2 tsp minced garlic, a little dried minced onion, about 1/4 cup sauteed chopped onion, a shake of garlic salt, a few shakes ground black pepper, and a shake of garlic and herb seasoing (my husband likes things REALLY flavorful). I also added a little extra mozzarella on top for the last 8 minutes or so of baking. He LOVED it! He said it's one of my best yet!

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Super Super Super!!!! These were fantastic! These are the changes I made: cut down to 2 eggs only, only mixed in about 1 cup of cheddar and 1 1/2 cups mozzarella with spinach/sausage, seasoned the mixture with salt, pepper, and garlic powder, then sprinkled with rest of mozzarella. Since they are only 2 of us, I froze the leftovers for another meal. Will make these again. Might even add a 2nd package of spinach to the mixture because we like it so much. Thanks!

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Perfect balance between the meat, cheese and spinach. I added a few cloves of minced garlic to the sausage. These do freeze individually well, too.

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Absolutely fabulous! Monday night is Italian night and this is definitely one for rotation! Nice for company, a potluck or meal delivery. It's just perfect all the way around. Thanks for posting, Laura. It's a winner.

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This is close to a recipe I fell in love with that I had found in a magazine recipe contest. That recipe included one large white onion, fried in the pan when you cook the sausage. It was also cream cheese instead of ricotta, and it was AMAZING! I froze half of the filling mixture by itself, and then thawed and cooked more shells. Also, you can bake the shells covered with foil and then add grated cheese and uncover for the last 10-15 min.

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This was great! I added a few of the tweaks from the reviews, like using Sweet Italian leaving the cheddar out, adding, parmesan chees, different spices and an extra jar of sauce!!! The flavors were yummy! One thing did was heat the stuffed shells a little longer than 30mins(about 45 mins)...just didn't seem like enough time!

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What an incredible recipe! I used Pepperjack cheese instead of the cheddar which gave it a little extra flavor. Also added some garlic powder and Italian seasoning to the cheese mixture. Delicious!

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Great flavor & easy to make. Everyone loved them & we'll be making them again!

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It was really quite good! I used Sweet Italian sausage instead of the bulk pork sausage, but next time I think I'll try fresh spinach and chop it up really fine. The frozen spinach came out all stringy. But otherwise it was good!

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i loved ths recipe! i used italian sausage n added some garlic and parmesan and everybody loved it. my husband loves lasagna but this is a nice change and he still gets his lasagna fix. great yet simple recipe.

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