Chicken Ricotta Stuffed Shells
This recipe for chicken ricotta stuffed shells is a yummy meal developed to be enjoyed by friends, family, and neighbors. Bring it to your next potluck or enjoy over connecting with family at the dinner table.
Before a couple of weeks ago, I have never had Stuffed Shells. I’ve pinned many tempting recipes but never stepped out of my “pasta comfort zone” of penne or capellini.
Chicken Ricotta Stuffed Shells
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I recently went to Prince George (my closest form of city civilization) to visit my bestie, Katie. I hadn’t seen her since her wedding in September, so this visit was more than past due. We caught up over coffee, went over her gorgeous Project Life album and went shopping. It was much-needed girl time, and since I left my son back with his grandparents it was also much needed “Randa time”. Even better, I didn’t have to cook dinner. Katie made a delicious dinner of Spinach & Ricotta Stuffed Shells, accompanied with wine from our favorite Okanagan winery (Silver Sage). Here’s the original recipe she used, and what I adapted the below recipe from.
It sparked a new love for stuffed shells.
TBK’s Pro Tip: I’ve changed this recipe many – many times since I first had it and I finally have it down to my family’s liking. I’ve tried hot italian sausage, breakfast sausage, but my favorite is honey garlic chicken sausage (not the breakfast style – the thick style).
Chicken and Ricotta Stuffed Shells
Some of the changes I made to the original recipe: I added more tomato sauce. I’m a big sauce person…big. The richer and saucier, the better. So I added a little more to the bottom and top to the dish and oh em gee…
More pasta recipes that I love:
- Sundried Tomato Pesto Pasta with Spring Vegetables
- Tomato Pesto Spaghettini
- World’s Best Spaghetti Sauce
- Pesto Pasta Salad
- Fajita Pasta Salad
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Chicken Ricotta Stuffed Shells
This recipe for chicken ricotta stuffed shells is a yummy meal made to be enjoyed by friends, family, and neighbors. Bring it to your next potluck or enjoy over connecting with family at the dinner table.
Servings 25 shells
Calories 152kcal
Ingredients
Filling
- 4-5 chicken sausage I used a honey garlic flavour
- 1 16oz small container of ricotta 454g
- 1/2 cup parmesan cheese
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp basil
- 1 egg
Sauce
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion diced
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 1 cup frozen spinach thawed
- 1/4 cup chicken broth
- 2 6oz cans tomato paste
- 1 tsp dried rosemary
- 1/2 tsp basil
- Sea salt to taste
Shells
- 25 jumbo pasta shells
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese
Instructions
Preheat oven to 375 F.
- Cook the jumbo pasta shells as directed on the box. Drain and set aside to cool.
- Meanwhile put together the filling and sauce.
Filling
- Squeeze the chicken sausage from the casings into a bowl, add the rest of the filling ingredients and mix well. Set aside.
Sauce
- Add the olive oil and heat over medium heat. Add the onion.
- Saute until almost translucent and add the garlic. Stir for another 2 minutes.
- Add the rest of the ingredients and bring to a low simmer.
- Remove from heat.
Putting it together
- In a large 9x13 pan, scoop half of the sauce and spread over the bottom.
- Take a jumbo pasta shell and spoon some the filling inside (roughly 1 tbsp), finish until there is no more filling.
- Lay the shells over the sauce, and spoon the remaining mixture over.
- Drizzle the shells with olive oil, cover with aluminum foil and bake for 30 minutes.
- Pull the pan out of the oven, take off the foil and top with the mozzarella cheese.
- Broil for 5 minutes or until the dish is brown, bubbly and irresistible.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 152kcal | Carbohydrates: 10.8g | Protein: 8.7g | Fat: 8.8g | Saturated Fat: 3.3g | Cholesterol: 40mg | Sodium: 372.5mg | Fiber: 1.1g | Sugar: 2.6g
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These look great and would work well all veggie too!
Those look so yummy!!! I usually make vegetarian stuffed shells, but good idea with the meat!
Yay for the SITS Girls for helping me find your blog!
🙂 I have so many recipe ideas floating around. My next one is going to be a pesto veggie one 🙂
Oh my goodness!!! It looks SOOOOOO delicious!!!! I want some right now! haha
P.S. The photography is GREAT!!
Thanks Christine! After I put it on Pinterest though, it didn’t really stand out.
Every photo is a lesson, I’m improving 🙂
This looks really good. Love using sausage as well
My hubby asked if I could use it more often in place of ground turkey lol!
This looks so yummy. I have been looking for some new and fairly simple recipes as I feel like we are eating the same thing all the time. Will have to give this a try!
It’s delicious Amy!
That looks heavenly!! All I have to do now is find some huge gluten free noodles!! I can’t wait! YUM
Is it hard to find GF pasta shells?
Looks great!!! 🙂
This looks delicious. I want to give this a try. I love pasta and have been looking for a way to try different types of pasta.
This looks delicious and your photos are great too. I’m hungry now. Commenting from SITS
Thank you Phoebe!
that looks delicious – I haven’t made stuffed pasta before, but I sure do love it..I might need to give this recipe a try!
Can’t believe you’d never tried stuffed shells before! They are also great stuffed with Bolognese sauce – a new take on spag bol!
My pasta life has changed! haha
Your stuffed shees look delish! I hope you have a nice Valentine’s Day! Found you from SITS and following on Twitter and Facebook – great blog!
Thanks Raquel!
These look absolutely delicious! I have actually never made stuffed shells before, but my family loves pasta! Definitely will have to try them…pinned!
Thanks for pinning 😉 They’re so good and incredibly versatile. My next recipe will be pesto related.
I have stayed away from stuffed shells too, but it’s because I don’t like ricotta cheese. Last week I tried a lasagna recipe and subbed plain Greek yogurt for the ricotta and it was awesome!! Now I can try stuffed shells again!! I think my kids would enjoy this and I think I’ve got the ingredients on hand! Double bonus!!
I usually sub Ricotta for Cottage Cheese in my Lasagna 🙂 I just never bought Ricotta, but I like it 🙂
This looks so good! Stopping by from SITS.
I’ve made stuffed shells before, but never quite like this! It looks super yummy! Definitely going on my meal plan!
Wow, can you come cook for me please 😉
These look great! Poppin’ by from SITS Comment Love Tribe. xx
These look great! My husband wants to try going vegetarian for awhile and these look like something that could be easily adapted! I’ve pinned them for later!
This would still be great with not Italian sausage 🙂
Yum! I’m going to try this either with shells or as a lasagna roll up. Stopping by from the SITS Girls.
Lasagna Roll Up would be great.
This looks delicious and easy. I’m going to give meal planning a try because I’m trying to lose weight so I appreciate when people share good recipes with beautiful pictures.
We love stuffed shells. They are my usual Christmas dinner meal. This looks like a delicious change up to my usual plain recipe! Thank you!
You’re welcome 🙂 What do you usually do with them?
This looks so good. My hubby would love this. He can’t have food without meat. LOL. I would have to skip the onions though. I thought I was the only person that include ground sausage or ground beef with stuffed shells. Pinning this now.
How much ricotta cheese? 106 ounces seems Like a bit much
Oh that must have been a typo. I’m guessing I mean 10 ounces. Thanks for pointing it out to me.
Oh wait…it’s 16 oz 🙂
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