Large Stuffed Shells are an amazing and simple dish. These are made with a Ricotta and Parmesan cheese filling and of course our homemade sauce topped with shredded Mozzarella. It’s a cheese lovers dream.
Freezer Stuffed Shells
A couple of tips for this meal:
- You want to make sure the noodles aren’t over cooked. You want to get the noodles just softened as they will finish cooking when you bake the dish. Over done pasta is never a good thing.
- Make sure the pan is completely cooled and you double wrap with tin foil before you freeze to combat freezer burn.
For all freezer meals make sure to label your foil top with the name of the recipe, cooking instructions, and prep date. Freezer meals can be frozen for up to 3 months.
Serves 6-8
Ingredients
- 1/2 box of jumbo shell pasta – cook for 9 minutes (slightly undercooked)
- Homemade sauce or 25 oz jar marinara sauce
- 2 tablespoons water
- 15 oz ricotta cheese
- 1/2 cup parmesan cheese
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons basil
- 2 teaspoons parsley
- 8 oz shredded mozzarella cheese
Freezer meal directions
- Spray a 9 x 13 pan or aluminum half sheet tin and spray lightly with non-stick spray
- Add about half the jar of sauce and 2 tablespoons of water to bottom of pan.
- Cook the pasta about 9 minutes (slightly undercooked)
- Combine the ricotta cheese, Parmesan Cheese, egg, basil, and parsley.
- Mix well.
- Drain the pasta and run under cool water
- Fill each shell with cheese mixture
- Place each shell seem side down in pan
- Pour remaining sauce over the shells
- Top with mozzarella cheese
- Cover with foil.
- Label with name of recipe, cooking instructions, and prep date (Can freeze up to 3 months)
- When ready to reheat, bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes
We love to serve this with garlic bread and a side salad
Here are some other awesome things about freezer-to-crockpot meals:
- Most of these meals require no cooking ahead of time, so that means the recipes are very easy to prep.
- The meals cook for the first time out of the freezer so they don’t taste like leftovers (BUT leftovers are okay right?!)
- For us that coupon, we can take advantage of all the sales and freeze a couple at a time. (Most freezer meals will last for at least 3 months.)
Freezer Stuffed Shells
2017-03-13 15:04:40
Serves 8
Prep Time
15 min
Cook Time
45 min
Total Time
1 hr
Ingredients
- 1/2 box of jumbo shell pasta - cook for 9 minutes (slightly undercooked)
- Homemade sauce or 25 oz jar marinara sauce
- 2 tablespoons water
- 15 oz ricotta cheese
- 1/2 cup parmesan cheese
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons basil
- 2 teaspoons parsley
- 8 oz shredded mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- Spray a 9 x 13 pan or aluminum half sheet tin and spray lightly with non-stick spray
- Add about half the jar of sauce and 2 tablespoons of water to bottom of pan.
- Cook the pasta about 9 minutes (slightly undercooked)
- Combine the ricotta cheese, Parmesan Cheese, egg, basil, and parsley.
- Mix well.
- Drain the pasta and run under cool water
- Fill each shell with cheese mixture
- Place each shell seem side down in pan
- Pour remaining sauce over the shells
- Top with mozzarella cheese
- Cover with foil.
- Label with name of recipe, cooking instructions, and prep date (Can freeze up to 3 months)
- When ready to reheat, bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes
Notes
- We love to serve this with garlic bread and a side salad
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