CANNELLONI
Ingredients
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Quantity
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Spinach
|
100gm
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Tomato
|
80gm
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Tomato puree
|
50ml
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garlic
|
5gm
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cheese
|
10gm
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Basil
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4gm
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oregano
|
2gm
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oil
|
15ml
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Salt and pepper
|
4gm
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Parmesan cheese
|
10gm
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For cannelloni
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|
Flour
|
100 gm
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Egg
|
1 no
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water
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100 ml
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For white sauce
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|
Flour
|
20gm
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Butter
|
20gm
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Milk
|
200ml
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Nutmeg
|
A pinch
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Onion cloute
|
1 no
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Method:
1 Mix flour egg and
water for pancake batter. Season and make thin cannelloni pancakes (crepes).
2 Take a saucepan,
put it on a high heat and add butter, a drizzle of olive oil, one of the sliced
garlic cloves, a handful of marjoram or oregano and the grated nutmeg. By the
time the pan is hot the garlic should be soft. Put as much spinach as will fit
into the pan. Keep turning it over; it will wilt quickly so you will be able to
keep adding more spinach until it's all in. Moisture will cook out of the
spinach, which is fine. By cooking it this way you don't lose any of the
nutrients that you would if boiling it in water.
3 After 5 minutes,
put the spinach into a large bowl and leave to cool. Place the pan back on the
heat, add a little olive oil, the other clove of sliced garlic, your basil
stalks and the tomatoes, then fill one of the empty tomato tins with cold water
and add this too. Bring to the boil, then turn the heat down, add a pinch of
salt and pepper and the sugar, and simmer for about 10 minutes, until you get a
loose tomato sauce consistency. Then take the pan off the heat and add the
basil leaves.
4 By now the spinach
will have cooled down, so squeeze any excess liquid out of it and pour this
back into the bowl. Finely chop the spinach and put it back into the bowl. Mix
it with the liquid, add the handful of the Parmesan, and then use a spoon to
place the mixture into the cannelloni (pancake) sheet. Roll it carefully. Lay the cannelloni over the tomato sauce in the
pan. Or you can pour the tomato sauce into your ovenproof dish and lay the
cannelloni on top. Make the white sauce, Cover the cannelloni with white
sauce and bake for about 20 to 25 minutes until golden and bubbling.
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