I sometimes like to use my pellet pit as an oven to reduce kitchen heat and/or to add light smoke flavor to whatever I’m baking.
Ingredients1 Box jumbo pasta shells (cooked per directions)
2 Lbs lean hamburger
1 Pkg taco seasoning
2 (8 oz) pkgs cream cheese
1 Small bag (11 oz.) taco flavored Doritos
3 Cups shredded Colby/Monterey Jack cheese (Approximate quantity. Buy a 2-sack pack from Costco and
use enough cheese to cover the shells.)
1 Large jar taco sauce (I used all of a 38 Oz Pace Picante Sauce jar, medium hot.)
Instructions1. Preheat pit to 350°. (For FE500/1000 owners I set 15/75 and temperatures were -2° to +7° with fine
blue smoke.)
2. Cook pasta shells per instructions. Set aside to cool.
3. Brown hamburger; drain excess grease.
4. Stir in taco seasoning.
5. Add both packages of cream cheese and mix thoroughly.
6. Fill cooked pasta shells with hamburger mixture and put in a 9x13 inch pan.
7. Top with taco sauce, shredded cheese and crushed Dorito chips.
8. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until cheese is melted.
Pasta shells are done.
Stuffing is done.
Stuffed pasta shells.
Bathed in taco sauce.
Smothered in cheese.
Buried in Dorito chips.
Out of the PG-500 and ready to serve with sour cream and black olives.
