Cannelloni

second_chance

hi all just wandering......i have some cannelloni tubes,soft cheese with garlic and herbs and frozen spinach...would mixing the cheese and spinach make a nice filling or do i need something else to add to it?????also do i need to cover the top with something before putting it in the oven???? sorry for ramble i am hopeless cook but trying!!:rotfl:

Heth_2

A traditional italian stuffing for them would be spinach and ricotta, so yours would be quite similar to that. You should cover the top with either a tomato or white sauce to stop them drying out, maybe sprinkle some parmesan on top and then bake in the oven.

second_chance

thanks !! mmmm

clarew

where do you buy cannoloni tubes? are they in the pasta section of supermarkets? can't say i've ever noticed them? (mind you, probably as i have 2 screaming kids distracting me!!!)

mandy_moo_1

Don't laugh, but i saw Delia making canneloni using normal cooked pancakes....you just cook a loada pancakes,allow to cool between sheets of greaseproof paper, put the mince mix in the middle of each pancake,roll them up,put them in a suitable dish ( i used a lasagne dish) then pour the white sauce over.

I've made it this way before and it made a nice change

frugalfairy_3

I have trouble finding the cannelloni tubes too so just get a packet of fresh lasagne sheets now and roll those round the filling and put them seam side down in the dish.

Works just fine!
HTH
FF

carlih1

Hi all,

I as thinking of cooking a very nice canneloni dish that i had in an old cook book at my mums, unfortunately my mum has recently re-done her kitchen and thrown the book away!

It was a blue italin cook book and the cannelloni hd gruyere cheese liver and chicken inside it, that is all i can remember, maybe some cream. I wanted to make it for V day but now i am very sad, does anyone have a similar recipie?

Carls

carlih1

Anybody?

Please x

Penelope_Penguin

Hi, carlih! Must admit, the idea of canneloni with liver makes me gip!

Try this recipe - pretty authentic italian. There's some nice ones for spinach and ricotta too, if you google *canneloni recipes*.

HTH, Penny. x

littlesnuggy

I plan to cook this cannelloni recipe tonight:

http://www.myhouseandgarden.com/recipes/Ricotta_and_Spinach_Cannelloni.htm

however I have never cooked cannelloni - do I need to boil it first (like normal pasta) and then stuff it, or do I stuff it while its still dry and uncooked. And then does it just cook in the tomato sauce in the oven?

Sorry for such a stupid question, but don't want to go and buy all the ingredients if I don't know what to do with them!

Thanks!

getcarter

I stuff it when it's dry, it may split when it's filled but I just put it on a bed a tinned tomatoes then top with cheesey sauce - lovely

Carter