Big stuffed horns. Stuffed pasta shells - delicious and original recipes for making pasta
Stuffed shell pasta is a complete hot dish that is perfect for family dinner or dinner, get-togethers with friends and even for festive feast... Stuffed shells with minced meat are easy to cook, the dish turns out to be very tasty and satisfying. You can bake shells in portioned ceramic forms, then the dish will not lose its shape when served.
For cooking, use large shell-shaped pasta; you can buy them in any supermarket. It is better to use durum wheat pasta, they are more useful and keep their shape better after boiling. As a filling, you can use not only minced meat, but also fried or baked vegetables, mushrooms, chopped seafood. In any case, it will turn out very tasty. This dish tastes like lasagne to me, but it's much easier to prepare.
Ingredients
- Shell pasta - 13-15 pcs .;
- Minced meat - 300 g;
- Onions - 1 pc.;
- Garlic - 2 cloves;
- Tomato juice - 300 ml;
- Hard cheese - 100 g;
- Salt and pepper to taste.
How to cook stuffed shell pasta with minced meat
You can take any minced meat - chicken, pork, pork and beef. Season the minced meat with salt and pepper to taste, you can also add your favorite spices - basil, oregano, ground paprika. Place the minced meat in a skillet and grill over medium heat until tender. You need to stir often so that the minced meat does not turn into one large cutlet, but remains crumbly.
Transfer the prepared minced meat to a deep bowl. Grate the hard cheese on a coarse grater and divide into two unequal parts. Add most of the cheese to the sautéed minced meat and stir well. For juiciness, you can also add one egg.
The mass should be as homogeneous as possible. It will be better if you mix the filling while the minced meat is still hot, then the cheese will melt right away.
Boil pasta "shells" until half cooked. Usually the manufacturer gives instructions for cooking on the packaging, but I advise you to cook one in a simple way- put the pasta in boiling salted water, bring to a boil and remove from heat. Stir the pasta, cover the pan and let sit for 10 minutes. From time to time, you can stir the pasta so that it does not stick together, but if the pasta is made from hard varieties, then it certainly will not stick together during such cooking. Then put the pasta in a colander, cool a little. Fill each shell with prepared meat and cheese filling.
Prepare the tomato sauce. To do this, finely chop the onion and garlic. Send them to a skillet and sauté over medium heat until transparent.
Then pour in tomato juice, add a little salt and simmer until thickened (about 10-15 minutes, depending on the thickness of the juice). If the tomato juice is very sour, then you can add 1 tbsp. Sahara.
Brush the bottom of a baking dish with about half the tomato sauce. This will make the dish more juicy and prevent the shells from burning.
Place all the stuffed shells tightly together.
Pour the rest on top tomato sauce... Please note that there should be a lot of sauce so that the finished dish has a bright, rich taste and an even richer aroma.
Sprinkle the remaining grated cheese over the dish.
Preheat the oven to 170 degrees and send the mold into it for 20-30 minutes. The cheese will melt and form a beautiful, appetizing crust, under which a whole mass of flavors are hidden - from delicate meat filling to bright tomato sauce.
Serve the stuffed shell pasta in the same mold as it was cooked or transfer to a serving platter. Most delicious dish will be hot, so call everyone to the table right after cooking.
In total, this dish will take no more than an hour to cook. The result is a hearty, nutritious and delicious hot dinner for the whole family. Products like juicy minced meat, pasta and aromatic filling give an amazing taste in combination. Such a delicacy can surprise even the most sophisticated gourmets, although no exotic products are used here.
Pasta with minced meat in a frying pan is a very convenient option when you need to quickly feed your family after a working day or when unexpected guests are on the way. The dish refers 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 that 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. Plus, they are better absorbed when consumed with fresh vegetables.
To cook stuffed shells with minced meat in the oven and in a 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 which products are in stock and which ones you prefer more.
Stuffed shell pasta in a frying pan
For this simple and quick recipe we need large shell pasta, minced pork and beef. In addition, you will need a little sour cream, cheese, an egg and your favorite seasonings.
Minced meat the traditional way: chop the meat and mix with onion, salt, pepper and add the egg. For more spicy taste ketchup can be added to the minced meat, and to make it spicy, add a little adjika. Pasta must first be dipped in boiling water for 4-5 minutes so that they are not cooked completely. In each we spread meat filling and put them in a frying pan, a little oiled vegetable oil.
Fill this beauty with sauce on top. Mix sour cream with a little ketchup (or tomato paste), add spices and a little water. This should be enough to cover the entire frying pan and cover the pasta. The final touch is a grated cheese powder. Cover with a lid and place on the stove over medium heat. Pasta in a frying pan will be stewed for 20-25 minutes, until the minced meat is completely cooked. This dish is best served with vegetables and herbs.
For a change in minced meat, you can add onions with carrots, pre-fried in vegetable oil.
Stuffed pasta shells with minced meat in the oven
One more original dish for a family lunch that will delight exquisite taste... For it, we need the following ingredients:
35 pieces of large shell macaroni (also called conciglioni)
- 400 grams of minced meat (better than pork, as it is fatty and will add 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 served, you can decorate with fresh herbs.
Let's start with the preparation of 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, throw them in a colander, rinse with cold water and add a little butter.
Fry the minced meat in vegetable oil, transfer to a container. Add salt, spices, onions, and grated cheese to it. Now is the time for the sauce. Fry the onions in the same skillet and add some chopped garlic if desired. Cut there too bell pepper small cubes. Add tomato paste to vegetables, pour in a glass of water. Put out the whole mixture well, mince or grind with a blender.
Now we take the form in which we will bake the shells, pour the bottom with a small amount of sauce (about 1, -1.5 cm). Stuff the pasta and put it in a mold. In the part of the sauce that is still left, add sour cream and pour our conciglioni. Sprinkle all this generously with grated cheese.
We send the dish to cook in the oven for 20 minutes, the temperature is 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 follow the figure shouldn't get carried away with this yummy dinner. Although, it is really difficult to resist. Stuffed pasta with minced meat and sauce will be remembered for a long time.
So fragrant and nutritious dish you can also treat children. The next day, the leftover pasta can be reheated in the microwave and it will come out as soon as it is cooked!
Calorie content: Not specified
Cooking time: 45 minutes
Be sure to cook for your homemade these delicious stuffed pasta shells with minced meat, a recipe with a photo in a pan, which came to us from sunny Italy. Than only Italians do not stuff pasta, but the most delicious are obtained with homemade minced meat in a sauce of sour cream and ketchup. Instead of ketchup, you can take tomato paste or put out fresh tomatoes in olive oil. For stuffing, special large pasta is produced in the form of shells or tubes, which are made from hard varieties wheat so that they do not boil. Before preparing the dish, the pasta is boiled for a short time in salted water, so it is more convenient to fill them with the filling, which is also brought almost to readiness. I would like to draw your attention to this one too.
It will take 45 minutes to cook. Recipe will make 2 servings.
Ingredients:
- pasta "shells" - 200 gr .;
- homemade minced meat - 170 gr.;
- ground red pepper - 5 gr.;
- red onion - - 50 gr.;
- garlic - 1 tooth;
- chili pepper - 1 pc.;
- sour cream 10% - 100 gr.;
- ketchup - 50 gr.;
- wheat flour - 10 gr.;
- oil for frying - 10 gr.;
- olive oil;
- thyme;
- greenery;
- salt.
Recipe with photo step by step:
Pour 1.5 liters of hot water into a saucepan, add 2 teaspoons of table salt, throw pasta into boiling water. Cook for 4 minutes, until al dente. Throw in a colander, water abundantly olive oil extra virgin varieties. 
The meat filling must also be brought to a half-cooked state. First, season the minced meat - add salt, ground red pepper, mix thoroughly.
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Then fry the minced meat in a well-heated frying pan greased with frying oil. Cook for 12-15 minutes, stir. 
We fill the pasta with the filling tightly, put it in a frying pan. 
Add chopped red onion and finely chopped chili pod without seeds. 
We put the pan on the stove, add the sauce. We do the sauce like this - mix low-fat sour cream, ketchup, salt and wheat flour, add a little cold water so that it is not too thick. 
We close the dish with a lid, cook over moderate heat for 20-25 minutes, sprinkle with thyme, herbs and pour over ketchup before serving. 
Bon Appetit!
We will diversify the menu - today is wonderful for lunch hearty dish: stuffed pasta shells with minced meat, a recipe with a photo in the oven is attached step by step for clarity.
Oven-baked shell-shaped pasta is a great lunch or dinner for the whole family. Especially if they are prepared with minced meat filling under an appetizing and aromatic cheese crust... This dish has Italian roots, but for a long time it has simply settled among our hostesses and has changed a lot. Only readily available ingredients are used for its preparation. The taste turns out to be incomparable!
It is best to bake such shells in a small-sized form. The pasta should lie tightly to each other and always with the filling facing up. You don't need to use mayonnaise for greasing, but with it the dish tastes more delicate.
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Shell pasta - 200 g;
minced meat - 200 g;
onion - 1 pc.;
carrots - 1 pc.;
hard cheese - 150 g;
mayonnaise - 100 g;
salt - 1 tsp;
ground black pepper - 0.5 tsp;
sunflower oil- 1 tbsp. L.
Cooking stuffed pasta:
1. First you need to prepare vegetables. Carrots should be washed, thoroughly removed from dirt, grated with a fine grater. The onion must be peeled and finely chopped.
2. Combine minced meat, onions and carrots in a frying pan. Minced meat is best taken from juicy pork. With it, the filling will turn out juicy and incredibly tasty.
3. Add salt and a little black pepper to the pan. Pour in vegetable oil. A couple of drops of oil should be left to lubricate the mold.
4. Fry over medium heat until half cooked. Minced meat should not be overdried too much.
5. The shells must be boiled until half cooked in slightly salted water. Drain the liquid.
6. Each shell-shaped pasta should be stuffed with minced meat prepared in advance. Don't stuff them too tightly with the filling. Lay tightly to each other in the form.
7. Lubricate the surface with mayonnaise. For convenience, you can use a pastry brush.
8. Grate hard cheese... Spread it in a thick layer over the surface of the mayonnaise.
9. Bake shells with filling in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. It will take 15-20 minutes to cook. During this time, the cheese will melt, combine with mayonnaise and bake in the form of an appetizing golden crust.
We have prepared for the household stuffed shells with minced pasta. This dish does not require any side dish to be added. It can be served with fresh herbs. Call the family to the table, treat them, bon appetit!
In this recipe, we'll show you how to make mouth-watering stuffed pasta with minced meat and cheese.
Stuffed pasta is a very satisfying dish, especially when cooked with minced meat, as in this recipe. You can stuff any large pasta - it can be shells, rolls or other pasta of your choice. The filling can also be varied - it all depends on your wishes.
We will talk about a simple and very tasty version cooking stuffed pasta with minced meat and cheese.
Stuffed pasta recipe
Ingredients
300 g minced meat
250 g large shell or boot macaroni
150 gr cheese
3 cloves of garlic
1 tomato, bell pepper and onion each
2 tbsp vegetable oil
How to make minced meat stuffed pasta:
Dip the pasta in boiling salted water, boil for 4 minutes - they should be half-cooked, put in a colander.
Put the minced meat in a pan with heated oil, fry.
Grate the cheese on a coarse grater, combine half with the slightly cooled minced meat, pepper and salt, mix.
Place the prepared filling in each pasta using a teaspoon, ramming tightly.
Place the stuffed pasta in a baking dish.
Cut the bell pepper into small strips, the tomato into cubes and the onion into half rings.
Put vegetables in a pan with heated vegetable oil, fry for 5-7 minutes, adding chopped garlic at the end of frying.
Place vegetables on top of pasta, sprinkle with remaining grated cheese on top.
Pour ½ glass of water into a mold for stuffed pasta, place in an oven heated to 200 degrees and bake for 10-15 minutes.
Serve the stuffed pasta hot as independent dish with or without garnish.
Pasta and cheese stuffed with minced meat is a very high-calorie dish, so it is better to serve salad from fresh vegetables or vegetable stew.