Southern Dinner Shells

This tasty entree is fun to make, looks elegant, and feeds a crowd! Good for entertaining and cooks in under 20 minutes with few supplies. Makes 8 servings of 6-inch shells

Step 1 Supplies

For the Dinner Shells you will need:
3-4 cups Shredded Cheese
1-2 cans Refried Beans
Hot sauce
4 1/4 cup Jiffy baking mix or Bisquick
A little over 1 cup of water
2 Tablespoons Butter

You will also need these household cooking appliances:
Deep fryer or kettle with oil
Big Stirring Spoon
Measuring cup
Cutting Board or Countertop Space
Mixing bowl
Serving plates and silverware
Cooktop stove

Comments

[l8nite]

These do look tasty ! I imagine any kind of filling could be used from shredded pork BBQ to pie filling. Great idea ! Don't you just love it when an experiment turns into a family fav !

[lemonie]

These remind me of Patties, do you think there's any connection?

L

[ERCBIENG]

I actually discovered this by deep frying an empanada but they are very similar. I think the major difference is the type of dough used, patties are like a corn bread and the dinner shells are a wheat dough

[lemonie]

Yes that makes sense. But I've got a Southern-states- Caribbean connection in my head do you think there might be a common origin, maybe 100 years ago or so? L

[ERCBIENG]

I honestly don't know, sorry. I invented these just within this year and I didn't get it from a cookbook. The reason they are named southern dinner shells is because of what's inside them, they reminded me of a southern meal when I ate them for the first time.

[lemonie]

They look great (and a bit better that Patties I've seen, which I'm beginning to think may have evolved into Jamaican junk-food...) L