Easy Spinach & Ricotta Stuffed Shells

It was okay, stuffing shells wasn't worth it

Recipe didn't match up on app

The ingredients list in the Samsung food app didn't match the actual recipe, which made it difficult come prep time and I didn't have all the ingredients.

I love this recipe, but there were discrepancies between the list on here and the recipe website. On the recipe webpage it says marinara and not passata. I made a sauce with the passata and it turned out great, but there would be less work involved using marinara.

Dont need the onion and only leave without lid for 3-5 min

It was meh. The filling needed a lot more salt and garlic, not very flavorful. Unsure if it was something I did wrong.

Added pork sausage. Whole family loved it.

I added Cottage cheese and sauage to up the protein.

We grated a little fresh lemon peel into the ricotta and sauteed some garlic cloves in olive oil. This made the filling more exciting. My daughter made her own without the spinach added in and it was picky eater approved.

PUT EGGS !!!!!!!

Tasted great! I used 26 jumbo shells and 3 cups of marinara. I followed the site version of the recipe but I added half an onion. I used mexican cheese for the top. I also gave it 10 additonal minutes of bake time. Would recommend this recipe to others and suggest throwing in chopped up mushrooms or meat.

Tastes good but the recipe itself is missing a lot. It completely missed out the egg and Parmesan from the ingredients list then skips steps, leaving you wondering at what point the herbs and onion go in and which of the 2 sauces.

Came out really well. My husband said that it's a dish to pass when ever we're asked to bring one. I also roasted some chicken breast and finished them off with the shells.

It's so good!! Used the ingrediënts on the recipe website. It was very filling & tasteful.

Used the ingredients here. It was pretty good!

While it’s not terrible, it’s very time consuming and really doesn’t have much flavor. The pasta sauce turned runny (which is a first). I also added more garlic.

Delicious and wife approved. Ingredients were a little off with what kind of sauce to get, so I just used some alfredo sauce. Also the grocery store was put of jumbo shells so I used manicotti pasta. Yum

The ingredients on the ingrediants list on this app didn't match the ingrediants on the link to the recipe which was really confusing. I found that I had to refer to the ingredietns list on the app but you couldn'tr change the measurements like you can on the app so this made it very confusing to follow.

Tastes amazing!

Cook for 10 mins longer than stated

Don't mess up and under cook shells. Delicious as a baked thing too.

Added some chorizo for meat and flavor. Was absolutely delicious ! 😋

My family absolutely loved this! The mixture made enough to fill 16 shells and still had some left over so I put it in the marinara on the bottom of the dish

Added some Italian seasoning in the spinach/onion mixture and also about 1 tbsp in the ricotta mixture. Don’t skip the nutmeg; it adds a unique flavor. Used store bought pasta sauce.

Added Sausage & mushrooms

Needs more sauce than what was called for, but very good!

Prefer with meat

Wow this is delish! I used Calabrian chili pasta sauce and the spice added a lot 🤌🏼

Followed the recipe basically but added chopped bacon and diced shallots to the mixture.

Big hit with the young kids, especially once I topped their portions with a little bit of Rao's Alfredo sauce (so it made a bit of pink sauce). Took me longer than 30 minutes, however. Probably an hour and 15, including cook time.

Easy to make and very tasty

Here's the actual ingredient list from the website. We used the website version except added the sauteed onion into the mixture since we had already chopped it before noticing the recipe's discrepancies. It tasted good still! I was able to fill more than 12 shells with the website recipe but they were all devoured. Make extra!

The ingredient list and time estimate in the app are very inconsistent with the recipe on its original site. Came home from the grocery store with too many of some things, not enough of others, had ingredients I didn’t need , and was missing ingredients I did need

This turned out delicious! Used the website directions instead of the apps. I would add a bit of salt at the end to bring it all together!

This turned out good. I want to make it with a vodka sauce and maybe another time with Italian sausage added.

It tastes really good! A bit time consuming but amazing!

This recipe was good, i used spring onions instead of 0.25 onion as I made the recipe for two servings. I ended up eating it in one go and would say 2 servings is actually 1. Overall, it tasted really nice, I would make it again!

Really enjoyed this. Made double the shells for the stuffing. Added vegan sausage with the spinach and garlic. Will not add onions next time, a personal preference, and did not add the egg. Cooked an extra 15 minutes.

So my local grocery store did not have the humongous jumbo shells needed to make this recipe properly. So I bought a package of medium sized shells and turned it into a casserole. I think it'll be okay.

we made it without the spinach (I thought I had some but it went bad) and so we made do with the cheese mix only and it was amazing!

Added all spices to the ricotta, maybe it was a bad decision. Also added chicken.

The website recipe doesn’t call for onions or the dried spices.

Really tasty! Did take longer than expected though to prep everything and stuff and bake the shells.

used as pinwheel filling. to use as filling, add more items that absorb moisture

great !!!!

We ate 12 shells between 2 people. Not sure if they were jumbo but were labelled giganti?

Very good. Took a little more time than I thought it would, but a great dish. I would definitely make it again

I would use full-fat ingredients and omit the nutmeg. It's not inherently a bad dish, it just didn't suit my pallet.

Very easy to make. I added chopped onion and it gave the ricotta mixture a nice slight crunch! I would just use a meat sauce next time for more protein. Overall VERY delicious!

Next time will do with pancetta, omitting the rosemary. Check recipe against ingredients list as it differed.

This was great but there are some small discrepancies between the ingredients list here and the instructions on the website which threw me off. I ended up making my own sauce with tomato paste, fennel, paprika, and herbs and it came out great, but I think the stuffed shells would have gone great even on just plain tomato sauce. I served this with some pan seared chicken and a Caesar salad. We'll be having this again I imagine.

My wife and kid loved it. Served with an Italian salad.

It took closer to 45 minutes to make this dish. Also, I baked mine at 375 for 10-15 minutes to get the cheese nice and crispy in spots

Incredibly fussy recipe. Says it takes thirty minutes but also call’s for the onions to be sweated which takes 30 minutes in and of its self. I thought this would be an easy after work recipe but instead it’s just felt like a nightmare. So many dirty dishes for what I’m assuming will likely be a bland dinner. Update-I spent over an hour making a meal unfit to eat. Just gross, a complete waste of food…

The spinach was very bland with the ricotta. adding something to the filling would make it much better. this recipe has the right idea just needs more flavor all around.

Put to much souce but it was soo good

No way this is 8 portions 😂 (or perhaps we’re just greedy) - I’d say four. I added a teaspoon of chilli flakes to the tomato sauce, as well as seasoning which the recipe leaves out for some reason. Baked at 180 C fan for about 20 mins. Also drizzled olive oil over the top before baking - though I used frozen grated mozzarella which sometimes bakes kinda dry. Used fresh chard, minus the stalks, in the ricotta filling rather than frozen - chopped into ribbons and squished it into the ricotta with my hands. I fried up the stalks with the onions for the sauce (waste not, want not and all that). All in all, a pretty simple and tasty meal.

Added shreddee chicken

Added lots of spices, baked for around 20 minutes. It was pretty good, but it wasn’t life changing. Would make again though and relatively easy, just a good amount of prep

Added onion powder, garlic powder, Italian seasoning, and basil to the ricotta mixture. My husband loved it and I thought it was just ok. To be fair, I'm not a big fan of ricotta. Stuffed shells are always a lot of work though. Even this "easy" meatless recipe was more work than it was worth.

We took alot of liberty with the seasoning in the filling and sauce (we used hot honey and brown sugar), we also used lasagna noodles and pinwheeled them and used pepperjack mozzarella and gouda for the cheese, it was great!

Addes ground beef to the sauce.

We had to use manicotti because we couldn't find Jumbo shells for under $20. I have a tomato sensitivity, so we used Alfredo 4 cheese sauce. Unfortunately, I added the extra spices anyhow. I really shouldn't have. I won't do that again. I will try this recipe again with the Alfredo sauce but not the extra spices.

Added more spices to both ricotta and sauce. Garlic and onion powder to both, little bit of red pepper flakes and shredded cheese to ricotta. Definitely needs quite a bit of salt. Baked for 15 min covered at 350, then uncovered for 10. Hit it for 2 minutes on broil to get the cheese on top crispy. Yum!

Good

It was very delicious and filling. I will definitely make it again.

Bland, takes a long time to prep.

Spinach overpowers the entire dish. Used pre-made pasta sauce instead of making my own, so the sauce is pretty good, but I put less spinach than the recipe called for and it still way overpowered the cheese. Also there's no bake time listed? No big but what recipe doesn't include that

Maybe toss in some Italian sausage

This was underwhelming but think it could be improved

This was delicious! I added more garlic and salt and it came out great. I baked it at 350° for 20 minutes and it was perfect. It did take about 1 hour to prepare.

I added the herbs in the mixture of the ricotta and it made it so much more flavourful, I added spice to the tomato sauce otherwise it would have been to bland with the simpleness the ricotta and sauce. I liked it and would make it again

Didn’t have large shell pasta so split open the cooked rigatoni and stuffed. Worked well but took longer!

Very good. Liked by both of us. We will have it again

It looks like a recipe I made up one time with crayfish. I used large shell pasta, and put black olives in it. (I'm the only one who likes any of that stuff.) 😂

Maybe add a little more salt and garlic next time

This recipe takes way longer than it states, but makes lots of leftovers, so it's worth the time. I used canned Hunt's sauce instead of making my own, and added grated Parmesan cheese. The recipe also doesn't state the temperature or time to bake, but the pasta box did. I baked at 400 for about 20 minutes (it says 30, but it was done sooner). Between the time it takes to start boiling the water and thawing the spinach, and the time to boil pasta, fill pasta, bake, cool, and serve, it's at least an hour to table.

Thought I had shells, did not, turned it into a lasagna. Delicious. Used fresh spinach not frozen, sprinkled with salt and cooked down. Squeeze out the moisture. Added some basil, oregano, and parsley to the cheese/spinach mixture. Have to make sure you use whole milk mozzarella. Not part skim/low moisture which lacks flavor, melts poorly, and isn't as stretchy gooey. If it was bland this is probably why.

Read the reviews regarding blandness so I did add onion and garlic powder to the ricotta mix, and threw some Italian seasoning in both the sauce and ricotta mix. I baked it at 350 for 18 minutes and it was perfect. A winner all around - everyone loved it!

So we made it and loved it, but with everything, I can't leave well enough alone, ha! I added ground turkey to the spinach ricotta mixture. Also I used an entire jar of sauce and felt like that wasn't enough.

Read everywhere that people were saying it was bland. Added a bunch of seasonings to the ricotta and used a mix of marinara sauce and reg tomato sauce. Sautéed my onions in a dash of cooking wine and added some sugar to the sauce to bring down the acidity. Added italian sausage (YUM)!

Wonderful recipe but we added chicken to ours, it was delicious and next time we will be trying it with Italian sausage. This recipe reminds us of mini lasagnas.

It was great! Added some fresh parmesan to the top and it was delicious!

Recipe needs to be updated to match the ingredients. I sautéed onion and garlic with the spinach, and used mozzarella cheese.

Didn’t bother to stuff the shells. Just mixed it

Can we not use ricotta cheese for the recipe

Needed lots of additional seasoning

Added parmesean on top, no other changes. Definitely won't make a full batch - it doesn't reheat well.

I wasn’t able to find large pasta shells so I used small and mixed it. It congealed but was still lovely! I also added pulled chicken to the mixture and that was a great addition.

Needs “Italian meat”.

Very good. I used some leftover marinara and a little leftover tomato sauce The spinach was also leftover so cleaned up 3 things! Comfort food and will be in the regular rotation.

This was just perfect.

Easy and delicious! I took the advice in the comments and used a thick pasta sauce instead of the passata (not sure what that is TBH), and everything worked out great for us. I feel like frozen spinach did just fine in this dish, but if you want to cook down fresh spinach I'm sure it'll make it tastier. I really want to make a batch and freeze them for the future. Not a huge fan of thyme so I'll probably leave that out next time, but everything else was great.

This was delicious! I seasoned the ricotta more with salt, pepper, onion & garlic - also added some left over grilled chicken diced up!

Felt like it was missing something.. added garlic powder and onion salt. Still didn't help :(

This was a HUGE hit! I did make a few additions, though. I added shredded fresh mozzarella, parmesan, oregano, parsley, garlic powder & onion powder to the filling. Also, I used fresh spinach. I truly don’t enjoy cooking but I’m trying to get better @ it. My family was impressed :)

Unbelievable! Hubby loved it too! I added the thyme and oregano to the rocotta mixture for more flavor and also added chicken(precooked) for protein. A new favorite! Sidenote:I bought Classico tomato & basil sauce because it was quick and easy.

Delicious! Consider adding chopped mushrooms or chopped artichoke hearts to the filling to stretch it just a little more. I also added cayenne to filling.

Too bland, missing something.

Use fresh spinach! Super delicious other than that

Too much seasoning, but only because I used premade sauce. Should have left the sauce alone.

Hood savory and really easy. All the little elements or Spices made it special .

I added kale and spinach , added romana , parmesan and boisin cheese , added a marinara sauce on top , it was amazing !!

We put extra seasoning in our ricotta, as well as parmesan cheese. We also used canned tomato sauce instead of all the passata stuff. Tasty! Trying fresh spinach next time!

I wanted to have extra so I doubled the recipe. I'm not vegan and I added 2 eggs to the ricotta mix but I'm sure the mix is still good without the egg. In the sause I added red pepper flakes for more flavor.

I think I needed better tomato paste. Good but bit bland. Also says to reserve pasta water but then didn't say for what.

Soo good! Just use a pasta sauce so I didn't need to do the onions and garlic but I did anyways to add more flavor it was delicious! can't wait to try it again!

I didn’t have shells but I had zucchini so I decided to slice it and make a zucchini lasagna with the ricotta spinach mixture. I added a little fresh parmesan to the mix. Then, I did two layers and topped with the only cheese I had left (cheddar). While it baked I prepared some tomatoes, onions and garlic to roast for some fresh tomato sauce to top the lasagna. It was amazing and so easy to whip up!

Added shredded chicken into the mixture!

Easy and tasty recipe, just not my cup of tea. The passata was a bit acidic and tick - maybe adding a bit of sugar and water to it would have helped. Found it a bit bland and unidimensional

Gross

This was a lot easier to make than expected but with the Ricotta it was a little bland. We added some more spices and really tried to give it as much flavor as possible. Made for great leftovers too!

Relatively easy to make, my shells were smaller but still very yummy.

I added a lot of garlic powder for flavor. Better leftover!

Cooked the shells, Added cheese mixture, cooked in the air fryer, then put them in the sauce in a skillet. So yummy!

Definitely needs more seasoning then recioe states but once added it was really good and super easy a nice addition might be panceta or something salty like that (may have gone overboard with the mozzarella! )

Double the ricotta to fill all the pasta.

Needs more sauce

The recipe says nothing about oven temp or baking time. I used 350F for about 20 minutes. Also, be sure to include the time it takes to make the sauce and cook the pasta, because this takes much longer than the recipe indicates. Give yourself a good hour for start to finish. (edit) Also, the filling was quite bland for our taste. Don't shy away from salt and pepper. If you eat cheese, some Parmesan would also be lovely, as would some mozzarella. We added Parmesan on top when we served it.

Used too much spinach and not enough sauce

This was a great recipe. I also broiled for the last few mins to get it nice and browned. I also baked it at 375 for 20 mins.

Delicious

Substituted the mozzarella with a mixture of Monterey Jack and smoked gouda. Added a bit of it to the ricotta as well. Used white pepper to taste.

Used Arrabbiata sauce (spicy marinara) as the base, this added some good kick.

Sooooo good.

It was a lot of work but it was really yummy. I did extra ricotta and shredded cheese

Was pretty good. I made it with mushrooms instead of spinach, cause our spinach went bad lmao. I think it added a nice savoury flavour. Would recommend adding mushrooms and a bit more spices, otherwise it will be a little bland.

Didnt have any big shells, so combined the passata with the ricotta.

This is really good, easy, quick & comforting Italian food. (I had previously frozen a batch of spinach & ricotta stuffing mix, so only had to cook the shells, add sauce, cheese & bake) I used a spicy homemade tomato sauce, which went very well with it, also made & frozen in advance

This was good. be sure to research the term "sweating onions"... I chose a marinara and if I make it again I will choose a different different sauce. Husband loves Italian and he loved it.

As for me and my husband, I would make this again. As for my kids they all hated it except my 1yr old. I guess they didn’t like the ricotta cheese. It was easy to make. I’ll have to pass on remaking it for now till my kids get older. Family of 6 ❤️

My husband was very impressed with it