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The ingredients needed to prepare Stuffed Shells:
- Provide 16 jumbo pasta shells
- Prepare 2 small onions
- Provide 1 stick butter/margarine
- Use 2 egg whites (or 1/3 cup egg beaters or equivalent)
- Get 15 ounce skim milk ricotta
- Provide 8 ounce bag part skim mozzarella
- Take 1/2 cup parmesan or romano cheese
- Prepare 1/2 tsp. sugar
- You need 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
- Prepare 1/8 tsp. salt x2
- Take 1/8 tsp. pepper
- Prepare 1/4 bag spinach (2 oz.)
- Provide 2 (28 oz.) can Redpack crushed tomatoes (or 2 cans plum tomatoes)
- Provide 1 Tbsp. dried basil
Steps to make Stuffed Shells:
- Get the sauce cooking. Melt butter/margarine in medium pot (or slow cooker) on LOW HEAT, mince onions as fine as possible and add to pot with the butter. Let simmer for 2 minutes to blanch onions.
- Mix dried basil with a 1/4 cup of water and microwave in a cup for 45 seconds. This will make a basil "tea". Strain and add basil "tea" to the sauce.
- Add cans of tomatoes, basil "tea", pepper, sugar and 1/8 tsp. salt to pot and let simmer at least an hour (or two). Add more sugar if you like it sweeter.
- Boil the shells and let cool being careful not to get them torn up.
- Mix thourloughly the ricotta, parmesan, eggs, garlic powder, 4 oz. mozzarella and cleaned spinach (remove the stems!). I used about a quarter of a bag of spinach.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Add several ladles of the tomato sauce to a casserole dish. Stuff the shells with cheese mixture and line the casserole dish with stuffed shells.
- Pour a few more ladles of the tomato sauce over the shells. Cover the dish with foil, poke a hole in the middle to vent. Be careful not to let the tomato sauce get on the foil as it will dissolve the foil! Bake covered for 40 minutes.
- Uncover and top cooked shells with the rest of the mozzarella cheese. Cook another 10 minutes.
- Let cool 5 minutes then serve!
- I've also made this by adding a half pound of hot sausage (or ground beef or even pepperoni) to the sauce. But, the vegetarian version is remarkable. The only really fattening part is the butter/margarine. I don't like using olive oil as it has a distinctly different taste than the more pungent flavor of butter/margarine. Feel free to use either parmesan or romano cheese. Pecorino romano is by far the best to use if you can.
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