Today we’re making Stuffed Shells with Spinach and Ricotta in an easy tomato sauce. This is the perfect holiday dish!
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FOR THE SAUCE
1/4 cup (60ml) extra virgin olive oil
6 cloves garlic sliced
1/2 teaspoon crushed hot red pepper flakes
3 tablespoons (45g) tomato paste
1/2 cup (120ml) water
3 28-ounce can plum tomatoes hand crushed or blender pulsed
salt and pepper to taste
10 large basil leaves hand torn
FOR THE RICOTTA MIXTURE AND SHELLS
1 pound (454g) jumbo shells about 40 shells
1 1/2 pounds (680g) whole milk ricotta drained
3 cups (340g) shredded whole milk mozzarella cheese
1/2 cup minced flat-leaf Italian parsley
1 pound (454g) baby spinach blanched, water squeezed out, and chopped
3/4 cup (68g) grated Pecorino Romano
2 large eggs beaten
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
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30 Comments
This is a great first course for Christmas. You can follow it up with this full Christmas meal we made on Patreon – Oven-roasted beef tenderloin, bacon goat cheese brussels sprouts, home fries, and snowball margarita drink: https://www.patreon.com/sipandfeast
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My husband told me yesterday he was craving stuffed shells… your recipe is similar to mine. I am using Roma tomatoes I canned from my garden last summer 🙂 I add a couple of sweet Italian sausages to the stuffing, so Tara might like mine haha! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Your channel makes me happy!
Love this vegetarian recipe! I am always trying to get my family to eat more veggies so o add onion, garlic, eggplant, mushrooms, and zucchini & crookneck to the sauce. For us vegetarians, the added vegetables help to round out the meal. So good Jim!
We love stuffed shells. I typically accompany them with a bowl of sauce with meatballs and spicy sausage. Merry Christmas to your family.
If you want the meatyness… mushrooms do well.
Used eggs to bring cheese mix together and made ground beef put into the mix and stuffed a lot of shells, but they ner ladted long enough to freeze.
I would much prefer it with a meat filling although I would worry about texture changes. Perhaps use a fattier ground meat (mix of beef and pork/sausage) so that it binds easier. Or just have meat in the sauce as opposed to the filling.
The meat sauce is not healthy.This is much healthier.
The meat sauce isn't so healthier. I make the vegan all the time.
Suburbs of Philly chiming in here; this looks spectacular! I'm making this for Christmas. I don't eat meat, so for me this is perfect. And yes, I agree, if you're going to make stuffed shells, make stuffed shells. It's like when I sit down to make homemade pierogies, I don't make a dozen, I make dozens. Thanks to the both of you and the happiest of Holidays to you and your family.
I tried making and all the shells kept breaking and i didn't overcook them
I like using my cookie scoop to fill the shells, you can just wiggle right inside, works great!
You can find those mini silicone spoons at the Dollar Tree. 😊
James, l like your style. I enjoy your videos, your thought process and of course, watching it all come together. In a sea of cooking channels, yours really rises to the top.
Excellent – thank you for all these great videos.
Made this tonight, it was a hit. Thanks.
It's not vegetarian if the cheese was from an animal.
I want to try this but I'm allergic to eggs. Would I be able to omit the eggs or is it important to bind the filling?
Feel better taste tester. lol. Nobody likes being sick.
Always great stuff!! Get better Jame’s!
Looks delicious, but I agree with Tara: adding some meat flavoring to the sauce would definitely take this dish over the top 10+/10 🍝
if you aren't putting a little parsley and lemon zest into your shells, i don't know where you grew up but I DONT WANNA DO BUSINESS WITCHA
I love the way you made the stuffed shells..it was perfect the way it was
So excited for this recipe!!! Im a fan of stuffed shells. I also want to give you a High Five for your Salisbury steak recipe…it is The Best… I've me made it several times… 😋
awesome recipe! Made this last night and everyone devoured it in under an hour haha!
Get well soon, James! 🤧
My sauce has beef short ribs, usually four, fresh basil, dried porcini mushrooms and one chopped apple. I use Michael of Brooklyn’s jarred sauce. Yes, jarred. I cut it with red wine. The beef ribs and porcinis add a deeper flavor, the sweet apple cuts the acid of the tomato. Brown sugar will do the same if you don’t have an apple.
I was trying to figure out what to make from my friends for a get together meal just before the holidays. This is it perfect thank you.
This stuffing would be good as manicotti too
A problem I often have with tomato sauces and foil is that the foil breaks down to the acid in the sauce. Not sure its toxic but it looks bad and I wouldn't want to eat it. The parchment paper between seems like a good idea. Better than plastic wrap- more toxins.
You always have great ideas. Thank you.