Looking for more Olive Garden Copycat recipes? Try Olive Garden Steak Gorgonzola Alfredo, Olive Garden Chicken Veronese, Zuppa Toscana, or Olive Garden Ravioli Di Portobello. Try adding breadcrumbs on top while they bake, and pour alfredo sauce over shells for an extra creamy stuffed shell recipe! Those are topped with breadcrumbs and alfredo, and don't have spinach. Make them copycat Olive Garden stuffed shells! This recipe is similar to the Olive Garden Jumbo Stuffed Shells recipe.Simply brown the ground meat in a pan and mix that in with your marinara sauce before pouring it into your baking dish. It is super easy to add meat to this recipe, I suggest either ground beef or italian sausage. Place stuffed shells in the sauce filled baking dish and top with remaining cheese. In a mixing bowl combine all remaining ingredients, leaving 1 cup of the mozzarella to sprinkle on top.ĭrain pasta shells, and once cool enough to work with, stuff with spinach-cheese mixture.

Cook spinach on medium heat to allow it to wilt down a bit. In a 9x13 glass dish pour jar of marinara sauce.Ĭhop up spinach roughly and then place in a dry saute pan. Parboil jumbo shells in a large pot of boiling water until they are about 75% cooked. So without further adieu, Giant Cheese Stuffed Pasta Shells with Spinach. But for some reason, I have never properly photographed them and got them up here! But with so many people loving the recipe (I mean it's easy to see why- they are giant pasta shells stuffed with loads of cheese!) I knew it was time for them to have a permanent place on the blog. Whenever I post them, I get lots of DMs asking for the recipe which I happily send to whomever asks. They are not at all a new Season and Thyme recipe, I have shared them many times over on Instagram and Instagram stories because they are something I often make for my family. This baked pasta dish is sure to be a family favorite this fall!Ī little backstory on these shells. These stuffed shells feature a creamy filling with a trio of cheeses- ricotta, mozzarella, and parmesan! The filling has loads of fresh baby spinach leaves and garlic too! The giant pasta shells are the perfect boat to hold the cheese filling and then they are nestled in rich marinara sauce, topped with MORE cheese, and then baked until bubbly. Giant cheese stuffed shells with spinach, now that's a lot of delicious words.

Big macaroni shells