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Cheese and Bacon Stuffed Pasta Shells

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Cheese and Bacon Stuffed Pasta Shells
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  • Prep: 25 mins  Cook: 30 mins
  • Serves: 4
A family favourite! Great served with a crisp green salad and garlic bread.

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Ingredients

250g large pasta shells
1 tbsp olive oil
4 rashers of smoked bacon, roughly chopped
1 small onion, finely chopped
1 clove garlic, crushed
50g crusty white bread, whizzed in a food processor to make crumbs
300g soft cheese eg: fresh ricotta
4 tbsp roughly chopped fresh parsley
1 tsp chopped fresh rosemary
700g jar of tomato passata sauce
150g ball of buffalo mozzarella cheese, drained

Preparation method

1. Preheat the oven to 200 C.
2. Cook the pasta shells in boiling water for 8 minutes, or as packet directs. Drain and cool.
3. In a frying pan, heat olive oil and fry chopped bacon, onion and garlic for about 5 minutes.
4. Pour passata into a large, shallow casserole dish and stir in rosemary.
5. Mix together breadcrumbs, soft cheese, parsley and the bacon mixture; season with pepper.
6. Spoon mixture equally into the pasta shells. Sit the shells tightly together on top of the passata.
7. Tear the mozzarella into pieces and scatter over the pasta shells.
8. Bake in the preheated oven for about 30 minutes until the cheese has melted and started to brown.

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    Tweak: LDSMOM01 Used different ingredients:

    My family LOVED this recipes!!! My 2 year old can be hard to please but it was no problem with this dinner and my husband finished off the leftovers by the next night! I made a few changes of my own which I felt made the recipe that much better. We're not big fans of bacon so I substituted the bacon for 3 Italian sausages. I removed the skin of them and chopped the meat up. Same cooking time and everything...just different meat. I found that using the sausage helped yield more shells as well. I also added a bit of grated cheddar cheese on top since we're all such big cheese lovers. But this recipes is DEFINITELY one I will be making again real soon!!!

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    Tweak: Mike R Used different ingredients:

    This was really good. I did make some changes (I used ricotta cheese instead of cream cheese. My bacon-crazy kids really liked this one.

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    Review: LUCKYMNLASSIE

    Did not like these at all. The taste of breadcrumbs was too overpowering. I didn't use fresh breadcrumbs but dried which may have been the reason. Per another review I did add cheddar cheese with the mozzarella. That was a good move. Other than that I can only suggest cutting the amount of breadcrumbs in half.

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    Review: Alyson

    Mostly made as is. I didn't care to hunt down whatever 'Buffalo' mozzarella is so just used regular. (I'll have to check that out since I'm a cheese lover.)and I dont usually have smoked bacon. Not sure how much difference that would have made, because I didn't much see the point of the bacon. May be one of those things you notice more when it's missing, rather than when it's there. And this only filled I think about 2/3 the shells called for & that was not even stuffing them really good. They were pretty good, but not "great." Been quite some time since I've done large shells, so it was certainly something different.

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Nutrition

  • Energy 2876.08kJ
  • Protein 24.8g
  • Total Carbs 63.9g
  • Fibre 3.6g
  • Sugar 8.3g
  • Total Fat 36.4g
  • Saturated Fat 19.6g
  • Salt 476.2mg
 
 
 
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