Cheesy Spinach Cannelloni Recipe #328769
this is a heavily modified version of a recipe found on here, i figured it was different enough to warrent it's own entry, I may tweak it a little further as i experiment, feel free to add suggestions
1 hour | 30 min prep
SERVES 4 -6 , 4 big plates
- 400 g ricotta cheese
- 1 (500 g) box frozen spinach
- 1 egg
- 20 cannelloni tubes (or enough to use up filling)
- 1/4 cup parmesan cheese (packaged grated kind is fine)
- 1-2 cup cheddar cheese (grated)
- 1 teaspoon dried dill
- 1/2 teaspoon salt (or to taste)
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper (or to taste)
- 1 teaspoon onion salt (or to taste)
- 1-2 teaspoon roasted garlic (2 big cloves)
- 700 ml tomato sauce
- 1-2 cup fresh shiitake mushroom (hard to come by, can subsitute for any other mushrooms you like)
- -preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- -boil cannelloni tubes until still quite firm (they will finish cooking in the oven), emerse in cold water to stop cooking and cool and toss with a little olive oil to keep from sticking together.
- -thaw frozen spinich.
- -while doing the above, saute shitakes in a little butter or olive oil with onion salt to taste, add to tomato sauce.
- -mix ricotta, spinich, egg, dill, garlic, parmesan, salt, and pepper until well blended.
- -stuff tubes with filling and arange in a single layer in a lasagne pan with tomato sauce above and below, be sure to cover all pasta as it will dry out if left uncovered.
- -top with shredded cheddar and cover with foil.
- -cook covered for 30 min or until pasta is soft and filling is hot.
- -if desired remove foil and broil for a few min to brown cheese.
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