Spinach and mushroom cannelloni

paddy
paddy @cook_30402512
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Wow. If you want comfort food that just hits the spot, try this. We doubled up on the vegetable ingredients and froze half of it so next time will be so quick and easy to already have the cannelloni filling prepared

Spinach and mushroom cannelloni

Wow. If you want comfort food that just hits the spot, try this. We doubled up on the vegetable ingredients and froze half of it so next time will be so quick and easy to already have the cannelloni filling prepared

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Ingredients

1 hour 15 minutes
2 servings
  1. BunchSpinach
  2. Halfpunnet Mushrooms
  3. 2Baby marrows
  4. Halfa red pepper
  5. 1Leek
  6. 8tubes cannelloni
  7. Ricotta, Parmesan and mozzarella
  8. Few crushed almonds
  9. 1egg
  10. 1chilli and few cloves garlic

Cooking Instructions

1 hour 15 minutes
  1. 1

    Chop all the vegetables. Cook onion, leek, garlic, red pepper and 1 chilli in some oil and set aside

  2. 2

    Fry baby marrow with a dash of lemon juice and almonds. Add some black pepper and salt Set aside

  3. 3

    Cook mushrooms till brown in some butter and set aside

  4. 4

    Sweat the spinach and drain all the liquid. Set aside Keep spinach liquid to add later.

  5. 5

    Combine all the above and blend. Add in egg yolk and 3tablespoons ricotta.

  6. 6

    Cook blended tin tomatoes (and add the left over juices from spinach and baby marrow) for 15 minutes - add salt and pepper

  7. 7

    Put thin layer of tomatoes in bottom of baking dish. Stuff the vegetable mixture into cannelloni and place them in baking dish. (Filling a ziploc with the stuffing and cutting corner off is definitely easiest way to stuff them)

  8. 8

    Spoon rest of tomato mixture on top. Sprinkle almonds and the grated Parmesan on top and add a few small pieces of mozzarella. (Next time we will use a softer mozzarella or grate it(?) as it did not melt as planned😂)

  9. 9

    Bake with lid for 20 minutes. Take off lid for a further 10 minutes.

  10. 10

    Serve with salad and enjoy

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Comments (3)

Shandré Candiotes
Shandré Candiotes @shandre
This still looks sooo good even though the mozzarella did not melt 🤣❤ I would like a piece please

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