Jumbo Ground Beef Stuffed Shells

photo by ddhowled

- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 18
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 18 jumbo pasta shells
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon of minced garlic
- 1 fine diced yellow bell pepper
- 1 fine diced sweet onion
- 1 1⁄2 lbs ground beef
- 1⁄2 tablespoon garlic powder
- 1⁄2 tablespoon season salt
- salt and pepper
- 1 egg
- 1⁄2 cup breadcrumbs
- 3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese, divided
- 1 (24 ounce) jar of prepared pasta sauce
- 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can diced tomatoes
- 1 (5 ounce) can tomato paste
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1 (1 1/2 ounce) package of dry spaghetti seasoning
- 1 teaspoon of chopped parsley
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cook pasta according to package directions and cool.
- Heat olive oil in a large skillet.
- Brown ground beef with minced garlic, bell pepper, and onion. Drain and set aside.
- Add garlic powder, season salt, salt and pepper, egg, breadcrumbs, and 2 cups of mozzarella to ground beef mixture.
- In a large skillet, simmer sauce, tomatoes, tomato paste, sugar and spaghetti seasonings.
- Pour half of the sauce mixture into the bottom of a large baking dish.
- Drain pasta shells and place on top of the sauce.
- Fill the shells with the ground beef mixture.
- Top with mozarella and parsley.
- Bake 25 minute.
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