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Mexican Pasta Shells Recipe


Mexican Pasta Shells Recipe
These are fantastic and very popular at my house. I served these at a party recently and was asked by several people for the recipe. They take a little time, but well worth the effort.

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Ingredients
  • 18 uncooked jumbo pasta shells
  • 32 ounces tomato sauce
  • 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon chili powder
  • 2 teaspoons ground cumin
  • 3/4 pound extra lean ground beef
  • 1 small onion chopped
  • 1 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro
  • 4 ounce can chopped green chilies drained
  • 15 ounce can chili beans in sauce with juice
  • 1 cup shredded pepper jack cheese

Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 then cook and drain pasta shells as directed on package.
  2. While pasta is cooking mix tomato sauce, flour, chili powder and 2 teaspoons cumin.
  3. Cook ground beef and onion in saucepan over medium heat stirring occasionally.
  4. Drain well then stir in 1 teaspoon cumin, cilantro, green chilies and chili beans.
  5. Pour 1 cup of the reserved tomato sauce mixture into ungreased rectangular baking dish.
  6. Spoon 1-1/2 tablespoons beef mixture into each pasta shell then place filled sides up on sauce.
  7. Pour remaining tomato sauce mixture over shells then sprinkle with cheese.
  8. Cover and bake 30 minutes then let stand uncovered for 10 minutes.

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Comments


Perfect


Sounds great, Cat! ;')


Oh yeah, sounds great!!


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