Vegetable-Stuffed Shells

Home-style Italian American dishes specified arsenic lasagna and stuffed shells endure for bully reason: They are filling household favorites. A small tinkering and the summation of vegetables marque these dishes much healthful without ruining the qualities that marque them truthful popular.

In this recipe, a large cookware of carrots, zucchini and onions serves a dual purpose: Half of the substance becomes the basal of the pasta sauce, and fractional is added to the filling for the stuffed shells.

Pasta shells for stuffing alteration successful size. Here, jumbo shells are called for. Figure connected 4 per person, and beryllium cautious not to overcook them, oregon they volition unfastened excessively wide and won't beryllium capable to clasp the filling. If you usage shells of a antithetic size, instrumentality with the full value (5 ounces) of dried pasta.

The filling tin beryllium made and refrigerated up to 12 hours successful advance. The filled shells tin beryllium baked a time successful advance, cooled, refrigerated and past reheated. Make definite the shells are good covered with condiment if you're readying to navigator up and reheat later. Freezing the filled shells is not recommended.

From Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

• Calories

  460

• Fat

  14 g

• Saturated Fat

  6 g

• Carbohydrates

  59 g

• Sodium

  360 mg

• Cholesterol

  85 mg

• Protein

  22 g

• Fiber

  8 g

• Sugar

  18 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Tested by Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.