Stuffed Shells

This is an oldy but goody and was missing from the transfer over to WP.  Enjoy!

 

Stuffed Shells

½ lb mozzarella cheese
2 C. cottage cheese
¾ C. parmesan cheese
2 eggs
1 jar spaghetti sauce
8 oz jumbo shells or manicotti noodles
1 clove garlic
*½ lb Italian sausage (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cook the noodles per directions and rinse with cold water.
Combine cottage cheese, mozzarella cheese, parmesan, garlic, eggs and parsley.

Pour ½ C spaghetti sauce in the bottom of a 9×13 baking dish.

Fill noodles with cottage cheese mixture and place in baking dish. I put my cottage cheese mixture in a ziploc baggy and cut off the tip and squeeze them into the shells this way.

Pour spaghetti sauce over the top of the noodles and sprinkle with mozzarella cheese. I have picky children that don’t like Italian sausage so I make them a pan of stuffed shells and pour the spaghetti sauce over that one first.  Then I mix the cooked Italian sausage in with the remaining spaghetti sauce and pour that over ours.

I sprinkle both pans with some mozzarella cheese and then bake for 45 minutes or until bubbly.