This is an awesome pasta recipe that the whole family will love!
These pizza stuffed pasta shells are filled with a beef and pepperoni filling topped with mozzarella cheese and more delicious pepperoni! This bakes up delicious with a gooey cheesy topping!
Using a high quality pizza sauce makes a big difference in this recipe. Eden Brand is my favorite one, it has a great fresh flavor and I usually buy it in a can. Most grocery stores carry it (and it’s sometimes in the organic area).
I added green pepper & pepperoni to this recipe because those are toppings we like… if you have other toppings you love, this recipe is extremely versatile… substitute sausage for the beef, throw in some mushrooms or olives, replace the pepperoni with ham! Make this your own… I’d love to hear your ideas!
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Items you’ll need for this recipe
* Jumbo Pasta Shells * Quality Pizza Sauce * Baking Dish *
Ingredients
- 15 to 18 jumbo shells
- ½ pound lean ground beef
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- ½ onion finely diced
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 4 ounces mini pepperoni or sliced pepperoni, divided
- 1 green bell pepper diced
- 1 large ripe tomato seeded and diced
- 1 cup pizza sauce
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese divided
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Cook shells el dente according to package directions. Drain and set aside to cool.
- In a medium pan, brown ground beef, onion, and garlic until no pink remains. Drain any fat.
- Add ¾ of the pepperoni and cook about 3 minutes. Finally, add in green pepper, oregano and tomato. Cook about 3 minutes or until green pepper is slightly softened. Remove from heat and stir in ½ cup of mozzarella cheese.
- Fill each shell with the pepperoni mixture (approx 1 ½ tablespoons) and place in a baking dish.
- Top with pizza sauce. Cover with foil and bake 20-25 minutes or until heated through. Remove foil and add remaining mozzarella cheese and remaining pepperoni. Return to oven until cheese is melted and bubbly.
Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Dinner
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Could I prepare the night befor? Bake next day?
Most definitely! I would recommend taking it out of the fridge at least 30 minutes before baking.
LOVE THIS! Thank you! We are addicted! I prefer sausage over the hamburger. I’ve added mushrooms, olives, Canadian bacon…so fun to play with this recipe! Thank you again!!
My husband doesn’t like pizza sauce/marinara sauce. Any type of other sauce i could use?
You could try it with your favorite type of sauce such as an alfredo but I have only tried it as written.
I couldn’t find the recipe so i winged it and it was soooo good. I diced onion, green bell peppers, sliced pepperoni, much rooms added a little crushed garlic in a saute pan with a tad of butter. After it cooled I added the shredded mozzarella cheese with pizza sauce just enough to get it wet. I stuffed the shells then pour more pizza sauce over the top just as pictured then added more mozzarella cheese and covered in pepperoni. I love this website. Thank you
Looks very yummy. What brand of pizza sauce do you call a good quality brand? Also that goes for a good for a Pasta/Spaghetti sauce. Help me!!
My two personal favorites are Costco’s Kirkland Marinara and Newman’s Own.
I was so excited to find this recipe! It’s currently in my oven as we speak. I sampled some of the meat, and it’s AMAZING! I can’t wait to taste the finished product. :D
i am drooling, so making this for our family dinner nite, wish me luck
What would be good side items to go with this? It’s on my menu plan for Thursday night.
I serve it with a tossed salad and either fresh french bread or garlic toast.
These were delicious! My husband loved them, and they were pretty easy to make. I will definitely be making this again.
So glad you enjoyed them Meagen!
I made this tonight, I used turkey pepperoni and ground venison. I also added fresh baby spinach in with the bell pepper, it was so good!
Made this for supper yesterday and it’s all gone!! It was delicious!! My family is demanding I make it again Monday! Haha. I did everything the same as the recipe except added a BUNCH more cheese. My family are cheese addicts. :P Thanks for the great recipe!
I’m so glad your family enjoyed it! My kids love this one too! (And I don’t think there’s a such thing as too much cheese LOL)
So delicious! Thanks for linking up with What’s Cookin’ Wednesday!
Wow!! YUM! Thank you bunches for linking up and partying with us! Pinning this!
Holy cow these look tasty! I am going to have to put them on next weeks menu!
Holly, my boys would LOVE this for dinner… every night, pinned!
LOL, it is a kid pleasing recipe for sure! Thank you for stopping by Gloria!!
Your Pizza looks fantastic, Holly! Thanks so much for sharing this awesome recipe with Full Plate Thursday and come back soon!
Miz Helen
I used italian sausage ~ delish !!!!!
Thanks for posting this week at the #WWDParty.
Just made these tonight and were good. Next time I’ll probably add more Italian seasoning to the meat. I guessed at the oven temp since I couldn’t find it in the directions. 350 degrees seemed to work great.
These look great and easy to do! I think we will be trying this real soon!