Main dishes

Make-Ahead Unstuffed Shells

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My family loves this recipe! I served it to guests one time and they were impressed. It's up a notch from noodles and sauce - very good.

posted by

Mangeons

on 4/19/2013

time

prep:

30 min

total:

1 hr 15 min

servings

total:

6 servings

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What You Need

cups medium pasta shells, uncooked

lb. extra-lean ground beef

jar (24 oz.) marinara sauce

tub (10 oz.) PHILADELPHIA Italian Herb Cooking Creme

1/3

cup chopped fresh basil

1/4

cup KRAFT Grated Parmesan Cheese

1-1/2

cups KRAFT Shredded Mozzarella Cheese with a TOUCH OF PHILADELPHIA

Make It

COOK pasta as directed on package, omitting salt. Meanwhile, brown meat in large skillet; drain. Stir in marinara sauce; simmer on medium heat 2 min. Remove from heat.

DRAIN pasta. Mix cooking creme, basil and Parmesan in large bowl; stir in pasta. Spread half the meat sauce onto bottom of 13x9-inch baking dish sprayed with cooking spray; cover with layers of pasta mixture and remaining meat sauce. Sprinkle with mozzarella; cover with foil. Refrigerate up to 24 hours.

HEAT oven to 375ºF. Bake casserole, covered, 40 to 45 min. or until heated through, uncovering after 30 min.

Kraft Kitchens Tips

Family Fun

Spend time with your family by preparing this meal together and enjoying a walk afterwards.

Special Extra

Cook 1 each small chopped onion and green pepper along with the meat.

Variation

Casserole can be baked immediately after assembling. Just reduce the baking time to 30 min., uncovering after 20 min.

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Mangeons

posted:4/19/2013

My family loves this recipe! I served it to guests one time and they were impressed. It's up a notch from noodles and sauce - very good.

RobSalm

posted:4/15/2013

Blah. While eating this dish I kept thinking . . . this would be better with red pepper flakes, more sauce, ricotta cheese, etc. In the end, though, it would have been better if I had used a different recipe!

SMALLFRYED

posted:3/28/2013

I made this recipe for my family - my son and his friend ate the entire pan by themselves! I now make it at least every other week and they just can't get enough. Super quick, easy and cheap.

FayeCripps

posted:3/22/2013

Awesome!

mandymoon83

posted:3/4/2013

This was definitely an easy recipe and overall came out well. I took some of the advice from the other reviews and added more sauce (but still didn't seem saucy enough), used the Italian Herb cooking creme, and added some chopped onion to the ground beef while browning it. Still had a little too much 'herb' flavor to me, but my husband and toddler loved it so will be making it again! Lots of leftovers too.

eebskb

posted:1/31/2013

Made this for Christmas Eve. The Grandkids loved it. The best thing was, I made it the day before and then just had to bake it. Planning to make it again for SuperBowl Sunday. Thanks Kraft for making things easy !

slammersmom

posted:1/24/2013

One of my daughter's (17 yr) favorite recipes. I use the garlic philly cooking creme and Kraft Italian 4-cheese. Love this recipe and there is NEVER enough.

a cook

posted:1/14/2013

This was an awesome meal that was easy to make in a short amount of time. I added onion and some Italian seasoning. Will make this again for sure!!!!

a cook

posted:12/24/2012

Made this for my husband using 4-cups Gluten-Free penne pasta instead of the shells, also used Italian Herb cooking cream, since they were out of Original the day I went shopping for the ingredients. Super-tasty and easy! Will definitely be making again!

dmwalsh45

posted:12/16/2012

Made this for my brother & his family it was A big hit everyone loved it I also added some onions ,green peppers ,and used half ground beef & half italian sausage it was what I had in my pantry & used italian herb cooking cream, can't wait to make this again .