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Spinach and Cheese Cannelloni

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Topic: Spinach and Cheese Cannelloni
Posted By: Mazzy
Subject: Spinach and Cheese Cannelloni
Date Posted: 27 July 2008 at 10:56pm
This is a great recipe in summer or winter, with salad or cooked veges or just on its own. Freezes pretty well too. I've taken the recipe off the back of the packet but substituted some easier/cheaper ingredients instead of what they suggest, so it's pretty easy and I take no credit for it!

You'll need:

1 pack of San Remo instant Cannelloni tubes (dried pasta tubes usually in a red box in the pasta/rice section of the supermarket)

375g of spinach (I just use 1 pack of the Watties free flow frozen spinach)
350g of ricotta (I substitute one container of cream cheese, sometimes one and a half if I have one I want to use up)
2 egg yolks
2 crushed garlic cloves
1/3 cup of grated cheese
Some nutmeg and salt

Put all of thd ingredients (except for the cannelloni tubes) into a bowl and mix well. Fill the cannelloni tubes with the mixture - I find it easy just to make sure I have clean hands and do it by hand.

Pour about a third of a can or jar of tomato pasta sauce (whatever you want to use) into the bottom of a oven proof dish. Place the filled cannelloni tubes into the dish in a single layer and cover with the rest of the pasta sauce. Sprinkle some more grated cheese on top. Bake at 200 degrees C for 30-35 minutes. Test with a skewer to see if cooked.

Serve with a salad and garlic bread, or cooked veges, or just on its own. Freezes pretty well for a fast and yummy meal.


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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 28 July 2008 at 9:48am
yay thanks!!!!

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Posted By: Mazzy
Date Posted: 28 July 2008 at 10:52am
No worries - it's the one vegetarian meal I can get my DH to eat without complaining!

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Posted By: HippyMama
Date Posted: 28 July 2008 at 3:14pm
YUM I think I am going to have to try this in our next fortnight's meal plan! Looks delicious!

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Posted By: bookwyrm
Date Posted: 28 July 2008 at 3:15pm
Looks very nice, will use this one next week :)

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Posted By: Shorty
Date Posted: 28 July 2008 at 3:39pm
I love these! I made them last month and my boy liked them to.
It is quick and easy, just a little messy trying to fill the tubes


Posted By: sparkle
Date Posted: 28 July 2008 at 8:33pm
Do you think i could substitute the ricotta/cream cheese for cottage????

I've got a pottle of it that needs using up in the fridge

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Posted By: Mazzy
Date Posted: 28 July 2008 at 9:11pm
Hmmm...dunno. I like the smooth creamy texture of the cream cheese and don't know if cottage cheese would quite do it. It also might be a bit wet - the cream cheese really sticks it all together. Might not be bad tho - if you try it let us know how it goes!

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Posted By: Natalie_G
Date Posted: 14 August 2008 at 2:09pm
Cheese and Spinach yummmmy.

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Posted By: kiwigirrl
Date Posted: 01 September 2008 at 10:40am
I make this with cottage cheese instead of riccotta and it works fine and is high in protein, i also add a bit of nutmeg to the spinach / cottage cheese mixture. Then when I put the tubes on top of the pasta sauce sometimes i spread a bit of cream cheese or philiadelphia ontop of the tubes then coat in pasta sauce & top with grated cheese... soooo good!

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Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 01 September 2008 at 10:45am
I make this often and even DH who neeeeeeeds meat at every meal loves it! I do tend to fry up a piece of bacon and cut it into little pieces to sprinkle over it for him though :)

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Posted By: youngmumnz
Date Posted: 20 September 2008 at 10:10am
mmmm going to make this tonight! sending DP out with a shopping list hehehehe

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Posted By: Natalie_G
Date Posted: 20 September 2008 at 5:39pm
I also have made them with Cottage Cheese, haven't tried with Ricotta

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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 20 September 2008 at 8:10pm
okay, this is PERFECT as my entier month's supply of meat is rotting in m stupid freezer and until the insurance comes through, (or payday), we are meatless. \

Thanks!


Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 22 September 2008 at 9:42pm
Yum! I have a bag of spinach in the freezer I was wondering what on earth to do with! Going to a pot luck dinner on Wed so will make this then!

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Posted By: youngmumnz
Date Posted: 22 September 2008 at 9:53pm
okay thought id write back!! omg thank you thank you thank you! it was so yum even my brother ate it who lives with us and he isnt into vegetarian food nor is my partner who thoroughly enjoyed it hehehe thanks heaps!

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Posted By: Mazzy
Date Posted: 23 September 2008 at 1:13pm
ooh yay! people like 'my' recipe (totally not mine, but anyway). We had this yesterday as well, it's soooo good.   My favourite to take for pot lucks too.

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Posted By: Daizy
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 5:09pm

mmm - had this for dinner the other night and it was delish!

DH (who says he hates spinach) Keeps asking when we are going to have it again.

Thanks Mazzy



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