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Ingredients:
For the Sauce:
29 oz. can crushed tomatoes
3 cloves of garlic – chopped
¼ cup fresh basil – chopped
½ red onion – chopped
1 carrot – chopped
3 tablespoons wine
¼ cup chicken broth
½ tsp. salt
½ tsp. black pepper
¼ tsp. red pepper flakes
½ tsp. dried oregano
2 – 3 tablespoons olive oil
Grated Romano or Parmesan cheese
Heat a large frying pan with the olive oil; add the chopped onion, carrot and garlic. Sauté until the onion is softened and the garlic is fragrant.
Add the crushed tomato, wine, chicken broth, basil and the seasonings.
Simmer on low; partially covered while preparing the shells.
For the Shells:
12 oz. box of jumbo shells
Prepare the shells as directed.
Filling:
16 oz. of cottage cheese
2 cloves of garlic
½ cup Italian parsley
½ cup sour cream
¼ tsp. red pepper flakes
½ tsp. salt
Zest of ½ orange
2 tablespoons sugar
¼ cup of grated Romano or Parmesan cheese
1 cup of shredded - Mozzarella or Monterey Jack cheese for topping the shells
Preheat Oven 350 degrees:
In a food processor combine the cottage cheese, sour cream, parsley, garlic, grated cheese, orange zest and seasonings in the food processor. Give a few good chops.
Carefully, take the shells and fill them with teaspoon. Place a ladle of the tomato sauce in a baking pan and place the filled shells in the pan.
Top with more tomato sauce and the shredded cheese.
Bake 25 – 30 minutes.
Serve with extra grated cheese and tomato sauce.
Enjoy with Love,
Catherine
xo
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Elzbieta Hester says
These shells look good enough to eat! Loovely dinner full of Italian flavors! Happy New Year! 🙂 ela
Angie Schneider says
wow those stuffed shells look seriously delicious and tempting!
Sandee says
Oh these look fabulous Catherine. Fabulous. I'm coming over right now.
Have a fabulous day my friend. Big hugs. 🙂
Liz Berg says
These look amazing! Love the addition of orange zest...nice!
Liz Berg says
These look incredible! And the addition of orange zest is lovely!!!
Nee says
I Catherine , the stuffed shells just blew my mind , never used orange zest in them before , gotta try thanks for sharing 🙂
Terri Henkels says
Wow, these sound extremely good! Can't wait to give them a try. I have been on a new recipe binge since winter began so I can add this to my collection to try in the near future!
Mary Frances McNellis says
Pasta shells bring back so many memories! If I were to name comfort food, this would be one of them for sure. I'm intrigued by the orange zest in the filling ... looks amazing as usual!
Gloria Baker says
I love these!! Look amazing Catherine!
Kim G. says
Really have to prepare myself a great pasta dish like this one:)
Jeannie Tay says
That dish looks so beautiful and yummy...I would love to have some if I could:D
Velva says
This is a classic and soulful dish. Delicious.
Happy New Year! Nice to see you on Instagram too.
Rose Clearfield says
It doesn't get much better than a simple pasta dish!
Chatty Crone says
Oh dear friend - I love this and I am going to pin it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Zainab Mansaray says
Definitely a classic that I need to try!!
David says
Catherine... Love this one! Lots of cheesy goodness and flavor. Nice comfort food, especially with the temperature getting down to the high teens tonight and tomorrow night! We had our first dusting of snow here in East Tennessee this evening...but it will melt off by mid-day tomorrow. Take Care, Big Daddy Dave
Maureen | Orgasmic Chef says
I haven't had stuffed shells in so long I've nearly forgotten what they taste like. John's not a pasta nut like I am so I usually make what he likes. No more.. I'm making these shells. 🙂
HOOTIN ANNI says
Hi Catherine...
By your comment it sounds very cold where you live!!! I'm running the furnace here, and it's 44 degrees [but the high humidity because of closeness to the Gulf where our house is....makes it feel MUCH colder]. I'm thinking tho, at the temps we have you would probably be out in shirt sleeves! LOL
This dish looks absolutely delicious!!!
By the way, I just tried to get your blog to open in Internet Explorer and your blog header is all that loads. No comment form whatsoever. As others use IE, you may want to take the nav bar off your blog top side so those that DO -- USE Internet Explorer can view your entire blog AND the embedded comment form. I'm now commenting from my all time favorite browser, Firefox.
Chrissy Boerman says
interesting combo. never woud have thought to add orange zest to it. thanks for linking up to the all things pretty party.