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Cannelloni

Pasta tubes filled with ricotta and spinach, covered in tomato sauce and bechamel and baked until golden.

1 hr 10 min total Serves 6 servings Medium
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Cannelloni

Photograph credit: Italian Cannelloni - Christmas lunch (In Explore 23-11-2013) by Giuseppe Milo · CC BY 2.0 · Flickr

Build the Meal Around Cannelloni

  • Green salad
  • Garlic bread
  • Roasted vegetables
  • Red wine

How to Make Cannelloni

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  1. Heat the oven to 190°C / 375°F. Mix the spinach with the ricotta, parmesan, egg, nutmeg and salt.

  2. Stir the passata with the garlic and oregano and spread a third over the base of a baking dish.

  3. Pipe the filling into the dried tubes and lay them in a single layer in the dish.

  4. Pour over the rest of the tomato sauce so that every tube is covered, then the bechamel, and scatter with the mozzarella.

  5. Cover with foil and bake for 25 minutes, then uncover and bake for 15 minutes more until golden.

A Few Notes

Pipe the filling in.

Squeeze the spinach dry.

Cover the tubes with sauce.

If your oven runs hot, check at 35 minutes.

Changing the Recipe

  • An eighth of a teaspoon of garlic powder per clove is the stand-in usually given when you are out of fresh garlic; it will not brown the same way, and it burns easily, so add it with the liquid.
  • Fresh herbs work in place of the dried oregano at roughly three times the quantity — a teaspoon of dried is about a tablespoon of fresh, chopped.

Keeping What's Left

Keeps in the fridge for 3 days. Reheat covered until hot all the way through.

Nutrition per Serving

Per serving, an approximate calculation from the ingredient list. Treat it as a rough guide: part of the energy comes from foods, or weights per item, with no recorded source. How the figures are worked out.

518Calories
26gProtein
54gCarbs
22gFat
4gFibre
10gSugar
840mgSodium

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