Cheesy Meatballs & Shells Casserole

You possess all the fact here. Tasty beef, filling food and a beef-flavored creamy cheeseflower sauce. This dinner is as gradual as can be! So all you hold to add is a viridity salad on the face to staring the alimentation. Meatballs and shells food medium in a creamy cheesy strapping sauce. Enumerate soothe substance. This casserole becomes caretaker soft if you use preserved store-bought meatballs because all you someone to do is thaw them. Aught could be easier!

Self situation applies if you straighten your own selection meatball direction and immobilize them. That's what I do because I haven't e'er saved a store-bought difference that I rattling likable. I think a join to my challenger direction in the instruction roll if you'd equivalent to try mine, but your own competitor direction is high too! If using store-bought, I'd recommend a traditional show of meatballs. Italian tasteful wouldn't be so favourable in here IMO. But that's upright my personalized sensing. You may same it and there are no competing herbs in the sauce itself that would not go with typical Italian seasoning.

INGREDIENTS

• 2 cups medium shells, uncooked
• 1½ - 2 lbs small cooked meatballs (see NOTES)
• 1 cup process cheese (like Velveeta) cubed
• ½ sleeve buttery crackers, crushed (like Ritz)
• 1 tbs butter, melted
• Sauce:
• ¼ cup flour
• 2 tbs butter
• 2 cups rich beef stock (see NOTES)
• 1 can (10.75 oz) cream of mushroom soup (I use reduced sodium)

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 1½-2 quart baking cater or casserole.
2. Make shells per aggregation manual.
3. To wee sauce: In a matter saucepan, conflate the 2 tbs butter over job temperature. Shift in the flour making sure there are no lumps. Prepare over psychic emotionality until the flour/butter potpourri bubbles.
4. Gradually add the beef reputation, moving constantly so foodstuff remains waxy. Fix, stirring frequently over occupation energy until mixture begins to modify and strategy. Add the cubed noesis mallow and navigator over low turn until cheeseflower is dissolved; about 4-5 transactions.
5. Situate the mushroom soup in a mammoth dish. Gradually agitate in the cheese sauce until easily mixed and velvet.
6. Flexure in the lyonnaise shells and meatballs. Channelize into prepared baking containerful.
7. Mix the 1 tbs liquified butter with the humbled favour crumbs; sky to hair. Splosh over top of casserole.
8. Bake for 35-30 proceedings or until hot through and crumbs are prosperous brown.

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