Makeover Cheese-Stuffed Shells
You'll love the great flavor in these shells. Our Test Kitchen made them over without using any reduced-fat ingredients, yet still saved a ton on fat and calories!
Ingredients
- 3/4 pound lean ground beef (90% lean)
- 1 Italian turkey sausage link (4 ounces), casing removed
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 package (10 ounces) frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
- 1 cup ricotta cheese
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 1-1/2 cups shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese, divided
- 1-1/2 cups 4% cottage cheese
- 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon, optional
- 24 jumbo pasta shells, cooked and drained
- SAUCE:
- 3 cans (8 ounces each) no-salt-added tomato sauce
- 1 tablespoon dried minced onion
- 1-1/2 teaspoons dried basil
- 1-1/2 teaspoons dried parsley flakes
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
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My family loves this dish. I have five kids so getting 10 thumbs up on any one dish is difficult! Everyone agreed and it is a "make again" as we call it.
Excellent! This is an expensive recipe and I make it on special occasions. Last year I made it for Easter and this year I got requests for it for New Years. Everyone absolutely loved it. You would never know it had been lightened. The only change I made was that I didn't make the sauce. I poured a good store-bought sauce over the shells and they were wonderful.
Too many cheeses used in this recipe. There's no reason to use cottage cheese AND ricotta. And, I've never seen cheddar cheese used in stuffed shells. My family wouldn't eat it. To us, Italian cheeses are ricotta, parmesan, mozzarella, and these are the only ones I'd use in stuffed shells or lasagna. There's very little flavor difference when using low-fat cheeses, so I don't consider this a makeover recipe. My own recipe has less fat! I use low-fat ricotta, 2% Mozzarella, and no sausage. I haven't found a turkey sausage that tastes good to my family. I also don't put ground beef in the stuffed shells, I make a meat sauce instead with less ground beef (93% lean.)
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Very good, although a weee bit expensive for my budget (with all of the different cheeses). Will definitely make again, but perhaps for special occasions.
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